General view from SW showing 60034 Aberdeen - Glasgow train arriving at station
SC 794631
Description General view from SW showing 60034 Aberdeen - Glasgow train arriving at station
Date 1964
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 794631
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Train at Buchanan Street Station, Glasgow This shows the north-east end of the station from the west, in 1964, with an Aberdeen-Glasgow train arriving. Behind the locomotive is the bridge carrying Dobbie's Loan over the station approach. The locomotive is of ex-London & North Eastern Railway class A4. The class A4 locomotives were originally built in the 1930s for hauling high-speed trains on the East Coast Main Line. In the early 1960s a few were reconditioned to operate a three-hour Glasgow-Aberdeen service. Buchanan Street Station was closed in November 1966, and has been demolished. Railway offices were built on part of the site. This station was opened in 1849 by the Caledonian Railway, which had taken over the Glasgow, Garnkirk & Coatbridge Railway, which had initiated its construction. It was rebuilt in the 1930s by the London, Midland & Scottish Railway. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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