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View from NE showing coal trains in sidings
SC 794457
Description View from NE showing coal trains in sidings
Date 9/1989
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 794457
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Trains in coal sidings, Falkland Junction, Newton-Upon-Ayr, Ayr, South Ayrshire This shows the sidings from the north-east in September 1989, with a train of empty coal hopper wagons hauled by two type 26 diesel-electric locomotives. To the left are hopper wagons full of coal, and two type 37 locomotives. The locomotives are all painted to show that they were to be used on coal trains. The locomotives were all built as part of the British Railways modernisation programme of the period 1955-65. The type 26s were introduced in 1958 and the 37s in 1960. The coal shipped from Ayr at that time came mainly from open-cast sites. These sidings were probably laid in the 1870s, when a new dock was built on the north side of Ayr Harbour, largely for coal and iron shipment. The sidings are on a branch from the original Glasgow-Ayr line, opened in 1840 by the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock & Ayr Railway. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference CT11
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