General view from E showing carriages and stock-wagons with cleaning shed in middle background and works in background
SC 796379
Description General view from E showing carriages and stock-wagons with cleaning shed in middle background and works in background
Date 19/11/1962
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 796379
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Cleaning Shed, Cowlairs, Glasgow, looking south-west This view looking south-west, taken on 19 November 1962, shows the smoking chimneys of Cowlairs Works in the background, the Cowlairs carriage sidings in the middle, and in the foreground a set of goods sidings known as the 'Turkey Sidings', with a passing goods train. The Turkey Sidings were so-called because vans from the United Turkey Red Works in Alexandria were marshalled here into trains for dispatch to different destinations. The practice had long gone by 1962. Apart from the tracks in the foreground, nothing of this complex now remains. The Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway, opened in 1842, built its Glasgow locomotive shed, and its workshops at Cowlairs, at the top of the incline out of Queen Street Station. A link line through Springburn to the Caledonian Railway was in place by 1860, when Hydepark Locomotive Works opened. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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