THE letters from Edwin England (October 23) and Eric Flack (October 24) prompted me to look into the railway that was used at Paisley Gas Works.
The gas works had one steam locomotive that carried the name The Paisley Buddy, built by Andrew Barclay Sons & Company of Kilmarnock in 1922. It was still on-site when the internal railway system ceased to be used in 1965 and was scrapped in 1967.
The gas works also used a small diesel locomotive from 1961 to 1965 when it was transferred to Tradeston Gas Works, Glasgow. The gas works was owned and operated by Paisley Corporation until 1949, when the gas industry was nationalised.
The purpose of the railway was to handle inward loads of coal, empty wagons back to the main line sidings and outward-bound tank wagons of hydrocarbon chemicals derived from the coal gas process.
Kevin A McCallum,
Ground Flat,
43 Queensborough Gardens, Glasgow.
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