The essence is already there Bob. It also gives a good impression of the scale of the works, despite being half size or thereabouts.

Dave.

Cheers Dave. I'm hoping to push it on a bit further this week - holidays are great things!

Bob,

Although I went round it a few times I can't remember the traverser -what is a "lifting traverser"?

Cheers Tony

Tony, I'll try and find a reference photo later that'll maybe put it into some kind of context however the lifting traverser (which was adjacent to the carriage lift shop near the Springburn Road main entrance) was a conventional single vehicle traverser, but unusually equipped with a permanent lifting frame and electric motored jacks on the traverser itself. Vehicles could therefore be lifted on the traverser to remove or replace the bogies, rather than moving individual sets of portable jacks about from one lift road to the other.

Bob

Bob, semi- off topic but where/what was the distinction between St Rollox and Cowlairs. I think one was NB and the other Caley, but by the BR period what was the set-up?

Thanks for the lifting traverser explanation... I'd guessed wrongly that it involved an overhead crane.

J.

As you say Jamie, Cowlairs was the ex-E&G. NB, then LNER Works and St.Rollox ("the Caley") having been ex CR, then LM&SR. Both were taken over by BR at Nationalisation - Cowlairs with 2,475 staff and St.Rollox with 3,382. For a long while (till the early 60s) the work allocation stayed much along the old pre-nationalisation lines with Cowlairs dealing with the LNE Group vehicles and St.Rollox, the ex-LMS group. Both works dealt with the newer rolling stock built under BR. It was changed in 1964-1966 with the rationalisation of all BR Workshops and after massive redundancies (around 3500 remained at or were transferred to St.Rollox) Cowlairs closed finally in 1968. St.Rollox was transferred as a wholly owned subsudiary of BR to British Rail Engineering Ltd in 1970 (When it got it's BREL Glasgow Works name). Although for coaching stock the workload was primarily for the Scottish Region, vehicles were from time to time also repaired for the London Midland and occasionally the Eastern Regions (though I did work on at least one Western Region vehicle).

Bob

Thanks Bob, I wondered what the history was up there.