Interior View of erecting shop

Description Interior View of erecting shop

Date 7/4/1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 676144

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Hyde Park Locomotive Works, Flemington Street, Glasgow This works was established in 1860 by Neilson & Co, locomotive builders, as a rail-linked substitute for their original works in Hydepark Street, Finnieston. It was enlarged and partly rebuilt in the 1880s and 1890s. In 1903 Neilson, Reid & Co Ltd, then owners, became part of the North British Locomotive Co Ltd. This shows the interior of the original erecting shop of 1860. It has cast iron stanchions supporting the timber roof trusses and the crane rail supports. The latter are trussed timber beams, an unusual form of construction. This was one of the earliest workshops of its type in Glasgow. Declining world demand for locomotives in the later 1950s and 1960s, particularly for steam locomotives, led to the closure of the North British Locomotive Co Ltd in 1964. This works was demolished in 1969, but the company's administration block nearby is now a further education college. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/66/9/3

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap