The North British Locomotive Company was created in 1903 through the merger of three Glasgow locomotive manufacturing companies; Sharp, Stewart and Company, Neilson, Reid and Company and Dübs and Comp
GNR No. 1744 maker's plate
Mainline Steam New Zealand locomotive, NZR J class No. 1211. (NBL 24534 of 1939)
NBL works plate on LNER B1 No. 1264 (NBL 26165 of 1947). The diamond-shaped plate was fitted to locomotives built at the company's Queen's Park Works in Polmadie, a continuation of a tradition started by Dübs and Company.
Former headquarters of NBL in Springburn, Glasgow. During World War I the building was temporarily converted into a hospital by the British Red Cross. It was latterly the campus of North Glasgow College.
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Sharp, Stewart and Company was a steam locomotive manufacturer, originally based in Manchester, England. The company was established in 1843 following the dissolution of Sharp, Roberts & Co.. In 1888,
North British Locomotive Company
…British Locomotive Company (NBL, NB Loco or North British) was created in 1903 through the merger of three Glasgow locomotive manufacturing companies; Sharp, Stewart and Company (Atlas Works), Neilson, Reid and Company (Hyde Park Works) and Dübs and Company (Queens Park Works), creating the largest locomotive manufacturing…
Maker's plate from preserved Highland Railway "Jones Goods" No. 103
Furness Railway No. 20. Works No. 1448 of 1863
One of the Sharp, Stewart-built Class 160 locomotives, 12 (formerly 165), operating on a heritage railway in Meiji-Mura, photographed in 2009
In the station at the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway, Darjeeling Himalayan Railway class B No. 19 (778 under the all-India number scheme). Works No. 3518 of 1889