• Cowlairs railway station served the Cowlairs area of Glasgow, Scotland, from 1858 to 1964 on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The station was first...
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    railway works and other local industries, initially off Cowlairs Road from the Cowlairs railway station up to the western side of Springburn Road, then off...
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    Cowlairs Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Works, at Cowlairs in Springburn, an area in the north-east of Glasgow, Scotland, was built in 1841 for the Edinburgh...
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  • Cowlairs. The line was extended eastwards from Haymarket to North Bridge in 1846, and a joint station for connection with the North British Railway was...
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    control of the high level station was transferred to a panel in Cowlairs signal box. That box was superseded by the new Cowlairs signalling centre on 28...
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    Glasgow Railway, which ran alongside the CGUR at this location. The link into this line gave the company access to both the E&G main line at Cowlairs and...
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    (390 m) Buchanan Street tunnel that ran from just outside the station to just beyond the Cowlairs Incline at Sighthill (where the lines merge with those emanating...
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    Busby railway station is a railway station in the village of Busby, East Renfrewshire, Greater Glasgow, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and...
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    passenger and freight trains to reach the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway main line at Cowlairs and hence Queen Street High Level. Monday to Saturdays there...
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    Central Station, is one of two principal mainline rail terminals in Glasgow, Scotland. The railway station was opened by the Caledonian Railway on 1 August...
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    West Highland Line (category Railway lines in Scotland)
    Queen Street to Cowlairs Junction - Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Cowlairs Junction to Bowling - Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway (later absorbed...
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    the main line at Cowlairs and thus reach Queen Street High Level. The GD&HR's successors the North British Railway built a station to serve Possilpark...
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    they were re-routed onto the former Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway's Sighthill Branch to Cowlairs, which they used as far as Springburn. Trains terminated...
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  • Britain today. The Strathspey Railway operates from platform 3 of Network Rail's Aviemore railway station. Until 1998 the railway's southern terminus was Aviemore...
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    Glasgow Railway was opened in 1842, it used a pair of Neilson & Mitchell beam engines to work the rope incline from Glasgow to Cowlairs station. The engines...
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    main railway manufacturing sites that located in Springburn; the North British Railway's (NBR) Cowlairs Works in 1841, the Caledonian Railway's St Rollox...
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  • Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway (GD&HR) was opened in 1858, running from the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway (E&GR) at Cowlairs to Dumbarton where it joined...
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  • Moray Park, 3 minutes' walk from Strathbungo railway station. Scottish Cup matches "Southern Athletics v Cowlairs". Glasgow Herald: 9. 26 September 1887. "Kilwinning"...
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  • September 1941". The Railways Archive. Trench, A. C. "Report on the Accident at Cowlairs East Junction on 30th January 1942" (PDF). Railways Archive. Ministry...
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    British Railways. In 1968, the nearby Cowlairs railway works, that had been previously operated as the main Scottish works for the North British Railway (NBR)...
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  • Balloch; from Cowlairs the line would make a broad sweep round the northern margin of Glasgow, approximately on the course of the later Cowlairs - Maryhill...
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  • first station from Glasgow was Maryhill, then an isolated village, and then Dalmuir. The GD&HR joined with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway at Cowlairs, and...
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  • The club played at Hamilton Hill Park, a 15-minute walk from Cowlairs railway station. "Partick v Possil Blue Bell". North British Daily Mail: 3. 21...
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  • connection in Glasgow was to be with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway (E&GR) near Cowlairs, broadly following the present-day Westerton route. In 1846 the...
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    built at Cowlairs railway works which were capable for handling light trains but inadequate for the heavier rolling stock used by the Midland Railway on its...
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    NBR K Class (category North British Railway locomotives)
    engines built at Cowlairs in 1909–10. The LNER fitted superheaters to all the D33s between 1925 and 1936. Ten engines built at Cowlairs in 1913. Twenty-two...
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  • Helensburgh. The later location list is: Cowlairs East and West Junctions on the Glasgow to Falkirk main line; Cowlairs North Junction; the western apex of...
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    Springburn in 1875, to give access to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway main line at Cowlairs by means of running powers over the E&G Sighthill Branch, whilst...
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    particularly in adjective form, found use in the creation of the railway system. The North British Railway operated from 1846 to 1923, leaving a later legacy in...
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    Waterloo Place, Edinburgh and its works at Cowlairs, Glasgow. Its capital in 1921 was £67 million. Besides its railway, the company also operated Clyde steamers...
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