Old Photograph LNER Class Z5 Steam Train Kittybrewster Aberdeen Scotland

Old photograph of an LNER Class Z5 steam train in Kittybrewster, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Built in 1915, this locomotives was designed by Manning Wardle, a steam locomotive manufacturer based in Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Many Manning Wardle locomotives, of standard gauge and various narrow gauges, were exported to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Indian sub continent, Australasia and South America.



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Old Photograph LNER Class J83 Steam Train Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of a LNER Class J83 steam train in the railway station in Dundee, Scotland. The station is the rebuilt Dundee Tay Bridge railway station, which had been built by the North British Railway in 1878 as part of the Tay Rail Bridge project. Until the 1960s, other stations in Dundee included Dundee West, the Caledonian Railway station for Perth, Perthshire, and Dundee East station on the Dundee and Arbroath Joint Railway. These days there are direct connections to London King's Cross, plus CrossCountry Trains along the Cross Country Route to Penzance via Leeds, Sheffield, Derby, Birmingham New Street, Bristol Temple Meads, Exeter St Davids and Plymouth, England. More frequent services run to Glasgow Queen Street, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.



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Old Photograph LNER Class N2 Steam Train Parkhead Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of an LNER Class N2 steam train in Parkhead North railway station Glasgow, Scotland. This locomotive was designed by Nigel Gresley and introduced in 1920. They were a common sight in and around Glasgow and Edinburgh operating suburban services, mainly on what is today known as the North Clyde Line. Parkhead was a railway station in the east end of Glasgow. It was opened as Parkhead, by the North British Railway on 1 February 1871. It was renamed Parkhead North on 30 June 1952 by British Railways. This was to differentiate it from the nearby ex Caledonian Railway Parkhead station on the former Glasgow Central Railway. The station was closed to passengers on 19 September 1955.



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Old Photograph LNER Class C15 Steam Train Eastfield Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of an LNER Class C15 steam train in Eastfield Glasgow, Scotland. William Paton Reid, from Glasgow, who designed this locomotive, was born on 8 September 1854, and died on 2 February 1932. He was apprenticed to the Cowlairs railway works of the North British Railway in 1879 and was Locomotive Superintendent from 1903 to 1919. He was awarded a CBE in 1920. Prior to his appointment, he had been Assistant Locomotive Superintendent to his predecessor, Matthew Holmes. Eastfield was a steam shed under British Railways with the depot code 65A.



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Old Photograph Steam Train Glen Fruin Kittybrewster Aberdeen Scotland

Old photograph of the steam train Glen Fruin in Kittybrewster, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The D34 Class locomotives, commonly known as the Glen Class, were built with superheaters. Glen Fruin, Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Freòin, is a glen in Scotland, adjacent to Loch Lomond. It was the site of the Battle of Glen Fruin, one of the last clan battles in Scotland, in which an estimated 300 warriors on foot from the MacGregor Clan claimed victory over an estimated 600 to 800 men from the Colquhoun Clan on horse back. The road from Glen Fruin to Loch Long was known as Scottish Gaelic: Rathad Mòr nan Gàidheal, in English, The High Road of the Gaels or Highlanders.



Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The traditional industries here were fishing, papermaking, shipbuilding, and textiles Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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