The famous St Rollox rail depot in Glasgow is set to be re-opened after train manufacturer Gibson’s Engineering announced that it was to open its new engineering facility on the site.
The former works, affectionately known as ‘The Caley’ by locals, shut in 2019.
However, the site was bought by businessman David Moulsdale with the aim of returning the landmark to a train engineering depot.
It originally opened in the 1850’s and was owned by Caledonian Railways, before ownership was passed to BREL in 1969.
It is the largest manufacturing, maintenance, and repair rail depot in Scotland, and the second largest in the UK.
It is expected the re-opening will create 1,000 jobs over the next five years and up to 10,000 over the next 10 years.
Gibson’s Engineering plan to use the depot as a one-stop shop for train manufacturing, maintenance, and repairs on a mixture of light and heavy rolling stock.
It also aims to have a fully electrified rail line from its facility to the mainline.
Gibson’s Engineering is owned by father and son Dougie and Fraser Gibson and has over 300 years of combined experience within its management team.
Fraser Gibson, managing director of Gibson’s Engineering, said: “This is fantastic news for Scotland, which has a proud heritage and tradition of rail manufacturing, maintenance, and repair.
"It’s full steam ahead and Dougie and I are excited to work with our team to get the facility fully operational, and to get ‘The Caley’ thriving again, as it did for over 160 years previously.”
Moulsdale commented: “I’m extremely confident that our ambition to see significantly larger-scale employment of engineers, coachbuilders, project managers and apprentices in the North of Glasgow will come to fruition."
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