Calder Tube Works
Location type
WorksNames and dates
Calder Hot Roll Tube WorksCalder Tube Works
Description
This tube works was to the south side of the line west of the former Calder station and east of the former Whifflet Upper station. Railway access was from the west into an exchange yard on the north side of the works. Reversal at a headshunt at the east end of the yard ran past a weighbridge into the works with sidings serving either end of the site.
The works was opened by Stewarts and Lloyds. Built on the northern part of the former Calder Iron Works.
Latterly, this tube works operated in conjunction with the Clydesdale Steel Works and Imperial Tube Works.
Tags
Tube WorksExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
05/04/2020
| Nearby stations Calder Iron Works [Station] Whifflet [CR] Calder Whifflet Whifflet [NB] Whifflet Lower Whifflet Upper Carnbroe Coatdyke Cairnhill Bridge Coatbridge Central [NB] Kipps Coatbridge Central Coatbridge Sunnyside Howes | Victoria Iron and Steel Works Speedwell Wire Works Speedwell Works (Wire Rope) Speedwell Iron Works Whifflet Central Junction Meadow Works Union Tube Works Sheepford Mineral Depot Whifflet Foundry Lochrin Construction Works Whifflet South Junction Cliftonhill Foundry Whifflet East Junction Rosehall Crossing Tourist/other Crown Iron Works |
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