Bathgate, Upper Station. View showing coal train with J36 locomotive on track near station
SC 2174007
Description Bathgate, Upper Station. View showing coal train with J36 locomotive on track near station
Date 1/7/1966
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 2174007
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Upper Station, Bathgate, West Lothian The Edinburgh & Bathgate Railway was opened in 1849, and the route was extended to Coatbridge in 1866 by the Bathgate to Coatbridge Railway, and to Glasgow in 1871 by the Glasgow & Coatbridge Railway. A network of mineral railways branched from this trunk. This shows a typical coal train on part of the original Edinburgh & Bathgate line, headed by an ex-North British Railway goods locomotive of a type used round Bathgate until the end of steam in Scotland in 1968, outlasting all more modern locomotives. The collieries in this part of Scotland were phased out from the 1960s. The last to go was Polkemmet, which was flooded during the miners' strike of 1984-5 and never reopened. The Bathgate line from Edinburgh was reopened to passengers in 1986, having been closed in 1955. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/66/20/2
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