Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works General View
SC 609408
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 609408
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 west side of the carriage works paint shop, which was as long as the carriage shop, though not so wide. Carriages were varnished, and their roofs re-canvassed and painted at regular intervals, hence the scale of these facilities. New carriage construction at Cowlairs ended after 1923, when the London & North Eastern Railway took over, but carriage repairing continued. The works closed in 1968, and demolition began soon after. The site is now an industrial estate. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H68/455/1C
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