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Glasgow, 130 Springburn Road, St Rollox Locomotive Works

Railway Engineering Works (19th Century)

Site Name Glasgow, 130 Springburn Road, St Rollox Locomotive Works

Classification Railway Engineering Works (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Caledonian Railway's Locomotive Works; 321- 329 Charles Street; Springburn

Canmore ID 68411

Site Number NS66NW 42

NGR NS 604 666

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Glasgow, City Of
  • Parish Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District City Of Glasgow
  • Former County Lanarkshire

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St Rollox House, 130-132 Springburn Road, 1887, Robert Dundas, engineer

Former St Rollox Railway Works Offices. Long red brick block, with yellow dressings, round-arched windows in pilastered bays, for Caledonian Railway Company. Now occupied by Scottish Enterprise, Glasgow North.

Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

Archaeology Notes

NS66NW 42.00 604 666

NS66NW 42.01 60399 66736 South Office

St Rollox Railway Works, 130 Springburn Rd, originally built for the Caledonian Railway in 1856-7, but completely rebuilt in the 1880s under the direction of Dugald Drummond, to designs by Robert Dundas, engineer. The buildings are mainly single storey, with round-headed openings and circular ventilators in the gable ends, and are of red and white brick. The two storey and attic, 3 by 17 bay office block on Springburn Rd was built in 1887 (£3500).

J R Hume 1974

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Note (15 November 2023)

The St Rollox works were originally know n as the Caeldonian or Caley Works or Glasgow Works. It is located in Springburn north of Glasgow City Centre. The 1831 Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway terminated here and later, in 1856, the works were connected to the Monkland Coal works.

In 1854,the site was established by the Caledonian Railway Company (25-inch Ordnance Survey plan, Lanarkshire, 1860, sheet VI.7). In 1882 it was fully reconstructed by Dugald Drummond to designs by Robert Dundas (Hume, 1974, 80; 169-70 C75; 25-inch Ordnance Survey plan, Lanarkshire, 1896, sheet VI.7) to include a saw mill, carriage shop, waggon shop, machine shop/ wheel shop, erecting shop, boiler shop, pattern makers/ brass foundry pattern store and iron foundry. In 1902, the works were enlarged again and were now known as St Rollox Works (25-inch Ordnance Survey plan, Lanarkshire, 1909 (pub. 1913), sheet VI.7). At Nationalisation, St Rollox Works employed over 3000 staff. In 1968 it was consolidated to form British Rail Engineering Ltd (BREL) and loss of 1000 jobs. In 1988 after privatisation, it operated as a maintenance facility (losing 1200 jobs), About 50% of the site was sold off and demolished. It continued to carry out rolling stock repairs in 2018 as the largest rolling stock repair site in Scotland. In 2019, it officially closed with 200 staff redundancies and offered for sale.

Information from M McDonald, HES, Heritage Research Service, 15 November 2023.

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