Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works; Interior General view of partly demolished buildings

Description Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works; Interior General view of partly demolished buildings

Date 1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 609396

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 western bay of the erecting shops after the demolition of the brick gable. On the left side of the bay is a row of cylindrical cast iron columns which support both the roof and crane rails. To the right is part of the side wall of the wagon shop. These shops were presumably added by the North British Railway when they made Cowlairs their central workshops after 1865. They continued in use with little alteration until closure in 1968. They were then speedily demolished and the site became an industrial estate. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H68/454/2B

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