View from SE showing SSW front and part of ESE front of 522 Pollokshaws Road

Description View from SE showing SSW front and part of ESE front of 522 Pollokshaws Road

Date 8/1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 686049

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Coplaw Tram Depot, No 25 Albert Drive, Glasgow This depot and works were built in 1893-4 for Glasgow Corporation Tramways Department in preparation for the Corporation takeover of the operation of the city's horse-tram services in 1894. The depot and the first part of the works were designed by William Clark, engineer. This shows the depot from the south-east, looking across Pollokshaws Road. The five masonry bays constituted the depot, the main entrance to which was in Albert Drive. The covered gangway at first-floor level was for horses to reach the stalls at that level. To the left is part of the later works. When the tramways were electrified in 1901-2 this depot was abandoned as such, The workshops were extended to build and repair electric tramcars, and remained in use until 1962. Part was converted to a transport museum and stores (part now an arts centre) and the rest allowed to decay. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/19/18

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/686049

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