View from S showing SSE and SW fronts of signal box with part of works on left and right

Description View from S showing SSE and SW fronts of signal box with part of works on left and right

Date 1968

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

Catalogue Number SC 686285

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Atlas Works, Barcaple Street, Glasgow This works was founded in 1884 by The Clyde Locomotive Co Ltd, and was taken over in 1888 by Sharp, Stewart & Co Ltd of Manchester. That firm became part of the North British Locomotive Co Ltd in 1903, who made large additions before and during World War I. This shows part of the works from the south-east. The brick building next to the signal box was the original erecting shop of 1884, and the corrugated-iron-clad buildings were the boiler and boiler-mounting shops. On the left is part of the Hydepark Locomotive Works. In the mid-1950s the North British Locomotive Co Ltd, which had been Europe's largest manufacturer of steam locomotives, turned to making diesel locomotives, and concentrated their manufacture at their Queen's Park Works, running down this works. The company failed in 1963, and this works was demolished in 1969. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/68/27/13

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/686285

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