View from NW showing locomotive 46200 crossing bridge

Description View from NW showing locomotive 46200 crossing bridge

Date 7/1962

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

Catalogue Number SC 796377

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Central Station Railway Bridge, Glasgow, from north-west This view, from the north-west, taken in July 1962, shows a locomotive reversing out of the station after bringing in an Anglo-Scottish service. In the right background are the arched girders on top of the 1879 bridge, a modification of the original design. The locomotive is 'Princess Royal', the first of a class of that name. The locomotive, built in 1933, is painted in a red livery reintroduced in the late 1950s for ex-London, Midland & Scottish Railway locomotives of the 'Princess Royal and Princess Coronation' classes. The ironwork of the 1879 bridge was demolished in 1966-7, leaving the granite-clad piers. The first, eastern, part of Central Station was opened in 1879 by the Caledonian Railway, and handled main line trains. The station was extended to the west in 1899-1905 to handle all the company's trains to the south and west. The layout was altered in the early 1960s and the 1879 bridge over the River Clyde abandoned. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference CT245

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