View from ESE showing ex-Caledonian Railway breakdown crane with part of engine shed in background

Description View from ESE showing ex-Caledonian Railway breakdown crane with part of engine shed in background

Date 1967

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

Catalogue Number SC 796382

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Accident crane at Eastfield Motive Power Depot, Glasgow, looking west This view looking west, taken in 1967, shows an accident crane, with its runner, outside the running sheds. This crane, of 20-tons capacity, was built in 1907 for the Caledonian Railway as their No 4 crane by Craven Bros Ltd, Manchester, and transferred to Eastfield from Aberdeen Ferryhill shed in 1963. The use of heavy steam cranes for assisting at railway accidents began in Britain in about 1875, and within a few years such cranes were common. As heavier locomotives came into use, larger cranes were needed. Their design became highly specialised. This is a fairly typical early 20th-century example. The Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway, opened in 1842, built its Glasgow locomotive shed, and its workshops at Cowlairs. The workshops became the central workshops of the North British Railway in the late 1860s. In 1904 the company built new locomotive sheds at Eastfield, to the north. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT250

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