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External Reference
Date September 2007
Event ID 587603
Category Documentary Reference
Type External Reference
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/587603
The locomotive lost in this sinking were 5ft 6ins gauge 0-4-0ST's (nos. 6 and 7: works nos. 386 and 387) and 4-4-0's (nos. 8 and 9: works nos. 388 and 389) built by Messrs. Neilson and on passage to Nova Scotia. Some parts were recovered in the 1980's.
Source: M Hudson and P Atkins in Railway Magazine, September 2007 (pp. 14, 16-17).