View from NNE showing Glasgow - Aberdeen train passing below Pinkston Road with power station cooling tower in background
SC 795292
Description View from NNE showing Glasgow - Aberdeen train passing below Pinkston Road with power station cooling tower in background
Date 4/7/1962
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 795292
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Train at Cowlairs Railway Incline (Pinkston), Glasgow This view taken in about 1962 from the south-east, shows a Glasgow-Aberdeen train leaving the tunnel and passing under a bridge which formerly linked the St Rollox Chemical Works with its waste heaps. The cooling tower is at Pinkston electric power station. This was a typical Glasgow-Aberdeen train of the period. It is headed by one of the last of the British Railways standard 5MT 4-6-0s to be built. The St Rollox waste heaps, known as the Alkali Waste, and foul-smelling, have been reclaimed, and are now the site of the Sighthill multi-storeyed flats. The Caledonian Railway completed in 1849 a branch from the Garnkirk & Glasgow Railway to Buchanan Street Station, which diverged from the earlier line at Hermiston, and descended past Pinkston to pass under the Forth & Clyde Canal in a tunnel before reaching the terminus. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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