View form S showing locomotive no 60009 with Glasgow - Aberdeen train travelling below Pinkston Road

Description View form S showing locomotive no 60009 with Glasgow - Aberdeen train travelling below Pinkston Road

Date 5/1963

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

Catalogue Number SC 796386

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 5.30pm Glasgow-Aberdeen train ascending the incline, past part of the waste heaps of the St Rollox Chemical Works. The locomotive is an ex-London & North Eastern Railway class A4 4-6-2 'Union of South Africa'. The use of this class of locomotive on Glasgow-Aberdeen services was unusual in 1963, though common later. After the end of steam working this locomotive was acquired for preservation by John Cameron, a farmer, who keeps it in a condition which allows it to be used for main line excursions. 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.

External Reference CT254

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