The Big Picture
Photography: CHRIS NEVARD
At the start of Queen Victoria’s reign in 1837, just a quarter of a million people lived in Glasgow, but by the end of her tenure, in 1901, there were three times that many. The cotton industry employed nearly a third of the workforce at the height of demand. Then, diversification came. Shipbuilding boomed thanks to nearby supplies of coal and iron ore. Locomotive production did as well. Fast forward to the 1950s, and a young George Murray was risking life and limb to get a closer look at the industry that would become an enduring interest, eventually to be immortalised in 1:76 scale with his layout ‘Dalmarnock Industrial’. You can read more about George’s layout in an upcoming issue of Model Rail.