Opened by the North British Railway in 1904, Eastfield shed outlived all the other sheds in the North side of Glasgow until 1992, when the end of locomotive hauled passenger trains and the contracting freight business rendered the depot surplus to requirements. It was finally closed in November of that year and all remaining light to medium locomotive repairs and maintenance transferred to Motherwell.  Ironically, the site is now being revived and a smaller depot built to service DMUs
Eastfield was one of the first depots to adopt a mascot logo, the West Highland terrier or "Scottie Dog".  The emblem originated in publicity material for the West Highland line and it's use was later extended to adorn the class 37 locomotives which were working the line at this time.  Since Eastfield was the home depot for this fleet, it was only a matter of time before "the dug" became the depot emblem.  Other depots followed suit, with Haymarket using something vaguely like a castle and Inverness adopting the Highland stag.  A salmon with a ring in it's mouth was adopted by both Shields Road for it's (nominally) allocated class 81's and Motherwell.  Since this emblem is part of the coat of arms of the City of Glasgow I cannot work out the connection with Motherwell depot.
With typical West of Scotland black humour, the staff at the depot held a farewell dinner dance to mark its passing, under the title "The Dug is Deid", (for the benefit of those south of Carlisle this translates as "the dog is dead"). The poster advertising the dance was adorned with a copy of the terrier logo turned upside down............................but all was not finished!
      

Now you see it, now you don't. Two view of the depot site before closure and after demolition.  The building survived for only a few months before being pulled down, although Grangemouth depot, which was closed before Eastfield was still standing with the track intact for many months afterwards. The "before" view was taken only a few weeks before the end, and D5301, one of the two class 26's returned to original colours to mark the closure, can be seen with three other members of the class, some 08 shunters and a withdrawn class 47.

D5300 (26007) being given the final touches 

37409 and 37416 await their next duties at the north end of the shed	37413 "Loch Eil Outward Bound" has had it's bogie removed for maintenance
37307 amid the clutter of spare parts at the south end of the shed	47137 has clearly been cannibalized for parts
The route learning DMU catches the low sun on a frosty afternoon	Class 158s and 37s stabled near the south end of the by now closed depot