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This works was established by Walter Montgomerie Neilson beside the City of Glasgow Union Railway which had opened in 1875. The works was across the CGU and Sighthill Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) from the Hyde Park Works [2nd]. Neilson had formerly been a partner in the competing works.

In 1888 Sharp Stewart and Company took over the works when it relocated to Springburn from Manchester, bringing the name of the Atlas Works [1st] with them to the new site.

1894 builds the first of fifteen 'Jones' goods, 4-6-0s, the most power locomotives in Britain at the time, for the Highland Railway. (Loco no 103 survives today.)

In 1899 the works employed 1,581 men.

The company merged with Neilson, Reid and Company and Dübs & Co in 1903 to create the North British Locomotive Company. The works extended progressively south from by Springburn station to alongside Barnhill station. The southern portion was Mons Works, added in the Great War. Also added was the Marne Factory was to the north of the Atlas Works.

NBL was liquidated in 1962/3 and the Atlas works subsequently demolished. The site is now an industrial estate.

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