View from NW showing NNE and WNW fronts

Description View from NW showing NNE and WNW fronts

Date 5/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 783398

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Tramway sub-station, Milngavie Road, Bearsden, East Dunbartonshire This shows the sub-station from the north-west. The building is clad in red sandstone, and given an architectural treatment in keeping with the hoped-for residential development of the surrounding area, which happened in the 1920s and 1930s. The roof-ridge ventilators are original. The Milngavie service was cut back to Maryhill in 1956, as part of a programme of cutting back tramway services prior to complete closure in 1962. The sub-station lay empty for some time before being converted into a public hall, as seen here, with little change to its external appearance. This sub-station was built in 1924 by Glasgow Corporation Tramways Department to provide current for the extension of its tramway system from Garscube Bridge to Milngavie. It originally housed two 500-kilowatt rotary converters to deliver direct current at 600 volts to the overhead wires. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/45/10

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