North British Locomotive Company
Introduction
This company, known as 'the combine', was formed by the amalgamation of Neilson, Reid & Co (Hyde Park Works [2nd]), Sharp, Stewart & Co (Atlas Works [2nd]) and Dübs & Co (Queens Park Locomotive Works) in 1903. The company is considered to have been the second biggest locomotive manufacturer in the world, exporting to almost every country with railways. From 1923, 'The Grouping', locomotive orders reduced and NBL focused more on the export market. The company went out of business in 1963 having struggled in the change over from the manufacture of steam to diesel locomotives.
Dates
| / /1903 | North British Locomotive Company Formed by an amalgamation of Neilson, Reid & Co (Hyde Park Works [2nd]), Sharp, Stewart & Co (Atlas Works [2nd]) and Dübs & Co (Queens Park Locomotive Works). |
| 19/04/1962 | North British Locomotive Company Liquidated. Goodwill bought by Andrew Barclay & Sons of Kilmarnock. |
| / /1963 | North British Locomotive Company Queens Park Locomotive Works, Atlas Works [2nd] and Hyde Park Works [2nd] closed. |
| / /1963 | North British Locomotive Company Company closed down, the Hyde Park Works [2nd], Atlas Works [2nd] and Queens Park Locomotive Works are closed. Goodwill is sold to Andrew Barclay & Sons. |
| / /1979 | North British Locomotive Company Hyde Park Works [2nd] and Atlas Works [2nd] demolished. |
Locations along the line
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This works dated from 1861, being built alongside the still new 1855 Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) at a green field site. It was opened by Neilson & Co. That company's previous works, Hyde Park Works [1st], was on Hyde Park Street, Finnieston, the same name being used for the new works.
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Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway)
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This works was established by Walter Montgomerie Neilson beside the City of Glasgow Union Railway which had opened in 1875. The works was across the CGU and Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) from the Hyde Park Works [2nd]. Neilson had formerly been a partner in the competing works.
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City of Glasgow Union Railway
This locomotive works was located on the south side of the Caledonian Railway main line into Glasgow, this portion being the former Polloc and Govan Railway. It was the Glasgow Locomotive Works owned by Dübs & Co which became part of the North British Locomotive Company with the combination of several companies in 1903. Following this the location was officially the Queens Park ...
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Polloc and Govan Railway
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