View from SE showing locomotive

Description View from SE showing locomotive

Date 8/1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 766710

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Ardlui Station, Argyll & Bute This shows a special excursion from Falkirk to Mallaig, run by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society. The locomotive is typical of those working on the line. The signal post is one of those installed when the line was built, but the arm is a 1960s replacement for the original lower-quadrant type. The West Highland Railway, opened in 1894, and its extension to Mallaig are still in operation, but the signalling is now radio controlled, and the type of signal seen here has disappeared. So too has this type of locomotive, and all the passenger trains are now worked by diesel multiple unit stock. This station is on the West Highland Railway, which runs from Craigendoran to Fort William. It runs through difficult terrain, and is single-track, with passing places. Most of the stations have an island platform in the middle of the passing loop, and timber station buildings in Swiss Chalet style, including Ardlui. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/49/38

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/766710

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap