View from SW showing turntable and St Margaret's Railway Engineering Workshops, Meadowbank,Edinburgh.

Description View from SW showing turntable and St Margaret's Railway Engineering Workshops, Meadowbank,Edinburgh.

Date 5/2/1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 669069

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content St Margaret's Railway Workshops, Clockmill Road, Edinburgh This works was constructed form about 1846 as the central workshops of the North British Railway, where their locomotives and rolling stock were repaired, and sometimes built. The complex also housed the locomotive running sheds. It remained the main workshops until after 1865. This shows the complex from the railway side. The turntable, with its radiating roads was originally covered, forming the running shed for the company's Edinburgh-based locomotives. The gantry on the left was used to lift up one end of a locomotive so that a pair of wheels could be removed for repair. The North British Railway, after a series of amalgamations in the mid-1860s, moved its main works to the former Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway works at Cowlairs, Glasgow. St Margarets remained a running shed, and a large extension was built to the south. Both were demolished in the late 1960s. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/66/2/13

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