Glasgow Works

There are future plans to create a high-tech heavy engineering and manufacturing site, and the depot is currently undergoing electrification to allow EMU/electric rail vehicles to enter unaided from the mainline.

St Rollox became the main works of the Northern Division of the LMS but ceased building new locomotives by 1930.

The northern part of the site was occupied for a time during the 1980s and early 1990s by MC Metals, undertaking scrapping of old railway rolling stock.

During 1997 the disused part of the carriage works was demolished and surplus land was sold off to become the site of a large Tesco supermarket, which opened in 2001.

A Costco, Lidl, new Springburn fire station and a Royal Mail sorting office were developed in the early 1990s to the north of the site on the former Sighthill Railfreight goods depot, which closed in 1981, forming the St Rollox Retail Park.

The workforce led a campaign against the closure in concert with the Unite and RMT trade unions, lobbying both the UK and Scottish Governments to renationalise the works,[14][15] and putting forward several proposals to save the site from closure, even including a plan to commission the restoration of the Springburn-built South African Class GMA 4-8-2+2-8-4 ‘Springbok’ locomotive, in storage at Summerlee, Museum of Scottish Industrial Life in Coatbridge,[16][17] and local MP Paul Sweeney raised the matter at Theresa May’s final Prime Minister's Questions.

[21] In April 2021, the works were purchased by Springburn Depot (SPV) Limited, a special-purpose vehicle owned by the Optical Express billionaire, David Moulsdale.

[23] Historic Environment Scotland described it as "retaining many features which demonstrate its previous function, including its interconnected workshop design of high-quality ironwork".

It made an important contribution to railway history and to Springburn's role as a major centre for rail manufacture and repair in the 19th and 20th centuries.