View from S showing locomotive no 60524 with Aberdeen - Glasgow train
SC 796385
Description View from S showing locomotive no 60524 with Aberdeen - Glasgow train
Date 5/1963
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 796385
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Train at Pinkston, Cowlairs Railway Incline, Glasgow, from south-west This view, taken in May 1963 from the south-west, shows the 10.10am Aberdeen-Glasgow train descending the incline, past part of the waste heaps of the St Rollox Chemical Works. The locomotive is an ex-London & North Eastern Railway class A2/3 4-6-2 'Herringbone'. This was a typical Aberdeen-Glasgow train of the period, though the use of this class of locomotive was unusual. By modern standards the train is remarkably long, but before road improvement it was much quicker to take the train than to motor between the cities. The Caledonian Railway completed in 1849 a branch from the Garnkirk & Glasgow Railway to Buchanan Street Station, which diverged from the earlier line at Hermiston, and descended past Pinkston to pass under the Forth & Clyde Canal in tunnel before reaching the terminus. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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