Catalogue description Photographs of St Rollox Locomotive works, Glasgow

The collection comprises images of newly completed Caledonian Railway engines and rolling stock and views of Highland, Glasgow & South Western locomotives in LMS service. There are also photographs of engines under construction at St Rollox, signalling, goods depots, Grangemouth docks and places served by Caledonian lines.

The collection is listed, with some reference prints available for consultation in the Museum's Reading Room.

St Rollox Locomotive works, Glasgow

• Railway transport

The Caledonian Railway Company's St Rollox works was built in 1853, and the first engine was completed there a year later. There were facilities for locomotive and rolling stock repair and construction, and the works was extended in 1870 and 1884. Engines built there included the Dunalastairs, Cardeans and McIntosh passenger and freight locomotives. In 1923 the Caledonian was taken over by the newly formed LMS, which ceased production at St Rollox in 1928. The works was still used for the repair of engines and rolling stock, and became British Railways main Scottish workshops, under the new name of Glasgow Works.