Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works General View
SC 608955
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 608955
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 north front of the works from the east end. The lower section with the arched openings was the original locomotive depot of the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway, converted into workshops after 1904. The taller buildings were the locomotive erecting shops. The post-1904 uses of the former locomotive sheds included coppersmiths' shop, boiler testing and locomotive painting shop. The works closed in 1968 and was quickly demolished. The site is now an industrial estate. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H68/453/2A
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