Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works; Interior Detail of cast iron column and roof support

Description Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works; Interior Detail of cast iron column and roof support

Date 1968

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 608951

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Cowlairs Works, Carlisle Street, Glasgow This works was founded in 1842 by the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway as their Glasgow locomotive sheds and maintenance works. After the North British Railway absorbed the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway in 1865 it developed the works as its central workshops, moving the locomotive shed to Eastfield in 1904. This shows part of one of the columns supporting the roof and cranes in the boiler shop. The circular section of the column shafts is most unusual. The rolled steel girders supporting the crane rails may be replacements of earlier wrought-iron or timber girders. The manufacture of heavy overhead cranes was a speciality of west of Scotland manufacturers by the 1870s, when they were in general use in heavy workshops. Before that time fixed cranes whose jibs moved in intersecting arcs provided a cumbersome method of moving heavy objects. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H68/452/2C

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/608951

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap