View showing shunting locomotive
SC 795664
Description View showing shunting locomotive
Date c. 1968
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 795664
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Shunting locomotive at Clydebridge Steel Works, Glasgow, South Lanarkshire This view, taken in about 1968, shows the last steam locomotive at the works, in the livery of Colvilles Ltd, as their No 7. It was built by R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd in Newcastle in 1917 for the wartime expansion of the works. It had been disused for some time. By 1968 the shunting at the works was being undertaken by diesel-mechanical locomotives built by Ruston & Hornsby Ltd in Lincoln. The works closed in 1978, as part of the phasing out of open-hearth steel making in Britain by the British Steel Corporation, and only the plate finishing section still survives. This works was established in the 1880s by the Clydebridge Steel Co Ltd. It was greatly enlarged during World War I to make shell steel, and again after 1937, by Colvilles Ltd, to use molten iron form the nearby Clyde Iron Works, mainly to make steel plates. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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