View from ENE showing shunting engines with cooling tower in background

Description View from ENE showing shunting engines with cooling tower in background

Date 5/1963

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

Catalogue Number SC 795316

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Locomotives at Pinkston Power Station, North Canal Bank Street, Glasgow This view, taken in May 1963, from the east, shows part of the station on the right, still in wartime camouflage, and the 1952 cooling tower in the centre background. The nearer locomotive is an electric one, from the Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard, and the other is a diesel from Yoker Power Station. The electric locomotive was of particular interest, as it was probably the first electric locomotive to work in Glasgow. It was probably built in about 1903 to haul trains of materials to the yard along the street tramways in Govan Road. It was sold in about 1940 to Glasgow Corporation, and scrapped in 1965. Pinkston Power Station was built in 1899-1901 for Glasgow Corporation Tramways Department. It was re-equipped several times, last in 1952, when a large cooling tower was added. With the run-down in the tramways it was sold in 1958 to the South of Scotland Electricity Board. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT52

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