William Smith Dixon



Dates

  /  /1824William Smith Dixon
Born.
  /  /1865Blantyre Colliery
Opened by William Smith Dixon.
  /  /1872William Smith Dixon Polloc and Govan Railway
William Smith Dixon gives the railway permission to build a new locomotive shed (Polmadie Shed), so long as it did not disturb Dixons own railway (Govan Iron Works Railway) which ran through an old quarry and was used for dumping slag and a level crossing over Polmadie Road to part of the Govan Colliery.
  /04/1873William Smith Dixon William Dixon Ltd
Forms company William Dixon Ltd with John Mann Thomson as chairman.
  /  /1880William Smith Dixon
Death of William Smith Dixon.