View from SW showing station pilot locomotive on West Highland Railway Centenary train approaching station
SC 796367
Description View from SW showing station pilot locomotive on West Highland Railway Centenary train approaching station
Date 11/8/1994
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 796367
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Station, Fort William, Highland, from east This view from the east, taken on 11 August 1994, shows the east end of the 1975 station, with, on the left, the coaches which had formed a special excursion to Fort William to mark the centenary of the opening of the West Highland. The type 37 locomotive was acting as the station pilot. In the right distance is a castellated arch made of wood, erected as a reminder of a similar, but more elaborate, arch put for the opening of the line. The locomotive was one of a number overhauled and modified to work on the West Highland in the late 1980s. The first station in Fort William was opened in 1894 by the West Highland Railway, on a site in the middle of the town, next to the steamer pier. It was relocated 500m to the east in 1975 so that a relief road could be constructed along the waterfront. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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