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LMS Engine Sheds Volume 5 The Caledonian Railway by Hawkins & Reeve
LMS Engine Sheds Volume 5 The Caledonian Railway by Hawkins & Reeve
Hard Cover with dust jacket
Copyright 1987
170 pages
CONTENTS
THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY THE SHEDS1
Aberdeen Ferryhill 7
Grangemouth69
Arbroath 14
Greenock Ladyburn 72
Ballachulish 17
Hamilton 76
Ballornock - St. Rollox20
Kingmoor 81
Beattock 33
Loch Tay/Killin 92
Brechin 36
Motherwell 96
Carstairs 39
Oban 103
Crieff 44
Perth 107
Dairy Road 46
Polmadie 115
Dawsholm 52
Seafield 130
Dumbarton 56
Stirling 134
Dundee58
Yoker141
Forfar 62
SHEDS CLOSED PRIOR TO 1947 143
ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS 164
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 170
Volume 5 of this series examines those engine sheds inherited from the Caledonian Railway. In construction, emphasis of style and operating practice, Scotland per se differed from England; this volume pursues these themes and attempts to explain and account for them, and to place them in their LMS context.
The Caledonian grew in a series of accretionary bounds and leaps to a position of `dual pre-eminence' with its bitter rival, the North British. The two divided the spoils of coal and steel, the basis of wealth and power, and by 1923 the Caledonian would rank with any of the great English companies. It brought to the LMS one of the greatest industrial engines of Britain, Glasgow and the Clyde, and much of the Lowland Coalfield business. With some exceptions, the engine sheds were excellently constructed, with little of the dereliction that was to haunt sheds of LNWR and L & Y origin, in the 1930s.
Big straight sheds, sturdily built with lofty roofing, were characteristic
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