Clydesdale Steel Works
Location type
WorksNames and dates
Clydesdale Iron and Steel Works (1870-1975)Clydesdale Steel Works (1975-1991)
Served by the Clydesdale Steel Works Railways.
Description
This large steel works, located at Mossend near Bellshill, manufactured pipes. In its final form it was equipped with an electric arc furnace and the Pilger Process was used to convert blumes into pipes. The Calder Tube Works was the finishing plant and latterly the Imperial Tube Works, where a VAM joint was cut into pipes and a plastic coating could be applied.
Tags
Steel works tube worksAliases
Clydesdale SteelworksExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
12/04/2022
| Nearby stations Holytown [1st] Mossend Holytown Bellshill Motherwell Carfin Motherwell [1st] Motherwell Bridge Motherwell Junction Bellshill [NB] Airbles Flemington Bothwell Park Halt Calderbank Carnbroe | Jerviston Junction Milnwood Junction Milnwood Steel and Works Fullwood Junction Jerviston Junction [1st] Clyde Crane Works Fullwood Foundry Braidhurst Viaduct Mossend Gas Siding Mossend North Junction |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
