Finnieston Diesel Engine Works
Location type
WorksName and dates
Finnieston Diesel Engine WorksServed by the Stobcross Railway.
Served by the Queens Dock Railway Lines.
Served by the Harland & Wolff Ltd.
Description
This engine works was owned by Harland & Wolff of Belfast and the Govan Shipbuilding Yard. It was nicknamed 'The Diesel'.
It was served by a long street siding running east along Lancefield Quay from the Stobcross Crane, Queens Dock and Stobcross. Raw materials came in from Stobcross and engines were taken to the Stobcross Crane to be fitted to new vessels.
Tramways ran east across Lancefield Street to serve more of the works between Lancefield Street and Hydepark Street. Lancefield Quay was to the south.
More of the works again was on the east side of Hydepark Street.
The works closed in the early 1960s, officially 1963.
The site was previously
- the 1864 London & Glasgow Engineering & Iron Shipbuilding Co Ltd boiler works
- the Lancefield Forge, once of Neilson & Fulton (1820s) (possibly the same Fulton of Stark & Fulton?)
Tags
Engine worksAliases
Lancefield Diesel Engine Works| Nearby stations Anderston Exhibition Centre Finnieston [1st] Shields Road [Subway] Charing Cross [GC and DR] Kinning Park [Subway] Shields Road [GPJ] Shields Road [CGU] West Street [Subway] Central Station Broomielaw Hoist Glasgow Central Low Level West Street Bridge Street Shields Glasgow Central | Lancefield Foundry Lancefield Quay Hyde Park Works [1st] David Rowan and Co Clydebank Foundry General Terminus Quay St James Foundry Finnieston Works [D & W Henderson] General Terminus Whitehall Foundry Clyde Foundry Anderston Quay Scotia Engine Works Stobcross Street Tunnel Stobcross Coal Sidings |
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Books
 A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series) |  An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways |
