View from E showing 42170 Whitecraigs - Glasgow train approaching station
SC 794789
Description View from E showing 42170 Whitecraigs - Glasgow train approaching station
Date 26/5/1962
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 794789
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Train on railway line at Elrig Road, Cathcart, Glasgow This shows the 8.14am arrival at Cathcart from Whitecraigs, on 26 May 1962, running parallel to Elrig Road, looking west. The locomotive and carriages are both of London, Midland & Scottish Railway design. Note the overhead wires for impending electrification. This photograph was taken shortly before steam suburban services on the south side of Glasgow were supplanted by electric trains. The locomotive is one of a class that dominated these services from about 1950 to the end of steam, and the five-coach train is equally typical of the period. This section of railway line is part of the Lanarkshire & Ayrshire Railway. The length from Giffen to Cathcart was opened in 1903, 15 years after the opening of the section from Barrmill to Ardrossan. By 1962 services had been cut back to Neilston. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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