108 Slides of the Pollokshaws Area (108 of 108)

	ACCIDENT ON THE RAILWAY AT POLLOKSHAWS WEST STATION 1925/6 This Caley Jumbo class engine had been shunting in the main 'up' (east side) goods yard, and with its train was drawing up to the exit signal to await clearance on to the main line. When the signal for the main line was drawn 'off', giving clearance for another train approaching, the Jumbo driver thought it was for him and started up. The engine and train ran into the head-shunt, went through the buffer-stops and demolished the signal box, which at that time was on the east side of the line. It then rolled down the embankment and finished up in the garden of Pickwell's house which stood at the corner of Pollok Avenue. This scene of the recovery of the engine presents a mystery; it is at Pollokshaws West station, which is on the opposite side of the river from where it landed? The only feature visible here identifying the location, is the curve of the stonework of the arch of the bridge, at the entrance to Pollok Estate at 2060 Pollokshaws Road. It can be seen just above the right-hand edge of the cab roof, and the bridge butters or abutment beyond it.