What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: St. Rollox Railway Works founded in 1854 by the Caledonian Railway to build and repair railway locomotives, carriages and wagons, greatly extended in the 1880s by Dugald Drummond Recorded plaque organisation: Springburn Heritage Trail.
Dugald Drummond significantly expanded St. Rollox Railway Works in the 1880s, enhancing its capacity to build and repair railway locomotives, which bolstered Scotland's railway infrastructure under his leadership as the Caledonian Railway's locomotive superintendent.
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