View from NW showing NW front of new paint shop and 'Klondyke'

Description View from NW showing NW front of new paint shop and 'Klondyke'

Date 7/4/1966

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

Catalogue Number SC 676151

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 works yard, with the paint shop on the left, and the 'Klondyke', a workshop built during the Californian gold rush of the late 1890s, on the right. World demand for locomotives was particularly high in that decade, hence the construction of this new steel-framed building. 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 H35/66/9/9

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