View from NE showing NNE and ESE fronts
SC 767048
Description View from NE showing NNE and ESE fronts
Date 8/1970
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 767048
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Engine shed, Station, Mallaig, Highland This shows the shed from the north. It was originally closed at this end, but the doorway seen here was made so that longer locomotives could be based here. The shed had been disused since the end of steam traction on the line in about 1960. The objects piled against the side are fish boxes. The West Highland Extension Railway was built to link with ferry services to the Western Isles, and to encourage the development of the fishing industry. It was a difficult line to build, and runs through some of the finest scenery in the Western Highlands. It now carries a heavy tourist traffic in summer. Mallaig is the western terminus of the West Highland Extension Railway, which runs from Banavie to Mallaig, and which was opened in 1901. The engineers for the line were Simpson & Wilson, and the contractors Robert McAlpine & Sons. This shed was built to house steam locomotives working the line. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H35/70/50/3
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