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2. The Carriage Shop - Prototype Photo's


Bob Reid

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There's plenty of photographs of Glasgow Works / St.Rollox but usually involving locomotives and rarely of Loco-Hauled Stock, NPCCS, DMU's or EMU's in the Carriage Shops....

 

One person who did take some however was Brian Daniels to whom I'm grateful for allowing me the use of these shots;

 

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View looking East to the end of No.6 Road in the carriage shop - usual Met-Camm in for a bit of bodywork and one of the many to get the rainwater strip removed and replaced with full length aluminium alloy gutters under the refurbishment programme. The platforms were not usually that untidy - doubt the labourers were having an off day.

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Each carriage shop platform road could accommodate up to two 70ft+ vehicles accessible on both sides. This EMU is sitting at the opposite end of one of the roads to the DMU shown above.

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This class 303 vehicle is sitting at the opposite end of the carriage shop within the works on the approach to the traverser. Of particular interest in the foreground is a brake test trolley which enabled the operation of the vehicles brakes to be tested as if from a loco, but using the works static air supply. Also note in the bottom right of the photo. one of the capstans for pulling vehicles off the traverser using a long steel rope and winch - held on to the vehicle by a steel hook and a lot of willpower!

 

If anyone else has photo's of the carriage and carriage lift shop, I'd much appreciate seeing them!

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