Glasgow, Carlisle Street, Cowlairs Works General View
SC 609411
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 609411
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 building which was, in about 1905, described as the tinsmiths' shop, presumably what would now be called the sheet metal working shop. The upper part of the building is in the same style as the rest of the c.1870 extensions, but the ground floor is earlier. The arch on the left led into the turning and machine shop, part of the original Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway workshops. The original function of the lower floor seen here is not known. This building was demolished, with the rest of the complex, in 1968. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H68/455/1D
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