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Interior View showing station pilot locomotive with coaches of West Highland Line train

SC 795420

Description Interior View showing station pilot locomotive with coaches of West Highland Line train

Date 1986

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

Catalogue Number SC 795420

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Train at Queen Street Station, West George Street, Glasgow This view from the north-north-east was taken in 1986, and shows a type 37 diesel-electric locomotive, one of a class introduced in 1960. It has brought the coaches to form a West Highland Railway train into the station, and will help to push it up the Cowlairs Incline. This locomotive was one of a number of the class altered to work on the West Highland Railway. The Skye Terrier on the side is a symbol of its allocation to that duty. Note the small snowploughs, fitted for winter working. Queen Street Station was opened in 1842 by the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway, and rebuilt and extended by the North British Railway in 1878-80. It was rebuilt again by British Railways in the 1960s, retaining the overall roof of 1880. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT56

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/795420

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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Collection Level (551 147) Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

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Attribution: © HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume

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