Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works General View
SC 608954
Description Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works General View
Date 1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 608954
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 the east elevation of the works, facing the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway's main line. The first eight bays were originally part of the locomotive running shed, the two tall bays the boiler shop in about 1905, and the low range beyond was the turning and machine shop. It is likely that the building known as the boiler shop in the early 1900s was the original erecting shop of the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway. The locomotive shed was unusual in having many short 'roads' parallel to each other. After Eastfield shed was opened the shed bays became workshops. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H68/453/1A
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