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Interior View from E showing trial high-speed Glasgow - Edinburgh train

SC 786082

Description Interior View from E showing trial high-speed Glasgow - Edinburgh train

Date 8/4/1971

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

Catalogue Number SC 786082

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Waverley Station, Edinburgh This shows the through tracks on the south side of the station, with the overall roof and screen wall which were part of the turn of the century rebuilding. The train is on a trial of a new high-speed service between Edinburgh and Glasgow, and the locomotive on the right is a station pilot. The train on trial in this view had a diesel locomotive at each end to give enough power for the high-speed service. The trials proved successful, and the operation continued for several years. The use of station pilots at Waverley, to make up trains, ended in the 1980s. The first station on this site was opened in 1846 by the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway and North British Railway. It was rebuilt in the 1860s, after these two railways had amalgamated, and again in 1892-1902, to designs by Blyth & Westland, engineers. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/71/29/37

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/786082

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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Attribution: © HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume

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