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According to the Daily Record website:
Sad news. With other sites lagging well behind with their work, I'm surprised Springburn hasn't been in a position to take on some additional work if the order book is unhealthy. I've got some happy memories of visiting Glasgow Works, including getting rather excited at 7 or 8 years old when we discovered a pair of Claytons there, having arrived a couple of weeks earlier form Derby RTC for scrapping!
Gemini Rail Services plant in Springburn to close with 120 jobs set to go
The Glasgow facility has existed in one form or another for 160 years but the highly-skilled workforce and their families are now facing a bleak Christmas.
More than 100 workers have suffered a hammer blow with the news that the Gemini Rail Services plant in Springburn, north Glasgow is to close.
Staff and contractors were told on Wednesday that the company is planning a formal consultation over the proposed closure, which is being blamed on falling orders.
The facility, formerly operated by Knorr-Bremse, has existed in one form or another for 160 years.
It was set up in the 1850s as the St. Rollox Locomotive Works by the Caledonian Railway Company.
Sad news. With other sites lagging well behind with their work, I'm surprised Springburn hasn't been in a position to take on some additional work if the order book is unhealthy. I've got some happy memories of visiting Glasgow Works, including getting rather excited at 7 or 8 years old when we discovered a pair of Claytons there, having arrived a couple of weeks earlier form Derby RTC for scrapping!