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View from SE showing depot yard with engineering works and carpet works in background
SC 775987
Description View from SE showing depot yard with engineering works and carpet works in background
Date 23/1/1971
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 775987
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Underwood Mineral Depot, Paisley, Renfrewshire This shows the yard from the entrance, showing the very large area of coal sidings, still in use, though the volume of use much reduced from its heyday. The buildings in the background are engineering works and foundries in McDowall Street. This goods depot closed in the 1970s, when wagon-load coal traffic was abandoned by British Railways, and the rails were lifted. This end of the site was used as an omnibus depot, a function it still performs. This goods depot was probably opened by the Caledonian Railway after it had taken over the Glasgow, Paisley & Greenock Railway, to which it was connected. It handled a large coal traffic, and also served local industries, which included a number of important engineering firms. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/71/3/15
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