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Jessie Street, GLASGOW, G42 0PG

You can see the Polmadie twin chimneys of a now disused waste incinerator & several communications masts. The buildings on the right are a large railway maintenance depot for Virgin Trains, which is the most northerly train stabling and maintenance area on the West Coast Main Line.

The twin chimneys of a now disused waste incinerator plant operated by Glasgow City Council. In the 15th century this area was a medieval hospital ran by monk, it was beside a spring and a burn (rivulet) that flowed into the river Clyde. The name Polmadie comes from the Gaelic - Poll Mac Dè: Poll = pool - Mac = of the sons - De’= God (pool of the sons of god).

Looking south down the main south railway line from Glasgow Central at the point where it passes the Polmadie railway depot. The Polmadie depot both maintains and stores trains and coaches. Rutherglen can be seen in the distance.

Train passes through the Polmadie area after leaving Glasgow Central station.

A couple of Caledonian Sleeper carriages are in the sidings.

No. 57361 (built c. 1890, withdrawn 12/59) is one of the numerous Drummond 'Jumbos', of which Glasgow Polmadie Depot alone had about 35 in those days. Most of them had that 'stove-pipe' chimney.

No. 16292 is an ex-Caledonian 2F 0-6-0T (still in LMS livery), one of numerous of the class resting on a Sunday in 1948 at this vast Depot. Behind it is No. 56346 (with stovepipe chimney), on the left 4F 0-6-0 4189, on the right one of many ex-Caledonian 0-6-0s.

The former LMS locomotive sheds, housing a variety of diesels.

One of the many scores of locomotives resting outside the big Polmadie Depot at Rutherglen on a Sunday in 1948 is Caledonian Pickersgill class '928' 4-4-0 No. 14468 (built c. 1916, withdrawn 11/59). Note that the engine has evidently been in a minor accident.

View northward, from beside the main line out of Glasgow Central. This very large, 14-road Depot (just visible far left) was the principal ex-Caledonian Depot serving the extensive long-distance and suburban services from Glasgow Central, as well as an intensive freight traffic from and between the Goods Yards on the South Side. It was coded 27A by the LMSR, 66A by BR and had an allocation of 178 locomotives in 1946, comprising:- 12 4-6-2s, 17 4-6-0s, 13 4-4-0s, 43 0-6-0s, 9 4-6-2Ts, 23 2-6-4Ts, 43 0-6-0Ts and 18 0-4-4Ts, the majority of which in those days being ex-Caledonian engines. See also another scene taken the same day, Image