Rail firefighters were reel deal
IT WAS a case of all hands to the pump in 1952 as these British Railways employees tested their fire-fighting skills.
The men, from the city's Cowlairs depot, were taking part in a training exercise with their trailer pump at Glasgow's old North West Fire Station, in Kelbourne Street.
The station, built at a cost £86,000 in 1939-1940, replaced the former Maryhill Fire Station situated at Gairbraid Avenue.
It was a state of the art place, with recreational facilities plus accommodation for 30 families of firefighters.
The men's steel helmets were maybe a throwback to the dark days of the war, when the station was home to Glasgow's Auxiliary Fire Service. Either way, these guys were pumped and ready for action.
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