View from SSW showing locomotive 70003 and carriages departing station for Carlisle

Description View from SSW showing locomotive 70003 and carriages departing station for Carlisle

Date 25/9/1964

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

Catalogue Number SC 795484

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Train at St Enoch Station, Glasgow This view from the south-south-east was taken on 25 September 1964 and shows the 5.30pm train for Carlisle via Dumfries leaving, headed by a British Railways standard 7MT 4-6-2 'Britannia' class locomotive. The plumes of steam are from the locomotive's safety valves, showing that it has a full head of steam. St Enoch Station was built on an undercroft, used for many years as a beer store. It closed in 1966, and its train services were transferred to Central Station. After a period of use as a car park was demolished in the early 1970s. The site is now the St Enoch shopping centre. St Enoch Station was built in 1870-9 for the Glasgow & South Western Railway as a city centre terminus of its Anglo-Scottish services operated jointly with the Midland Railway. It was extended to the south in 1898-1902. A temporary terminus at Dunlop Street was opened in 1870. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT69

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