Old Photograph LNER Class J37 Steam Train St Margaret's Railway Depot Meadowbank Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of an LNER Class J37 steam train in St Margaret's Railway Depot in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is a class of 0-6-0 steam locomotive designed by William Paton Reid for freight work on the North British Railway. The new locomotives were introduced in 1914 and had superheaters, inside cylinders and piston valves operated by Stephenson valve gear. The locomotives performed admirably on fast mainline freight services, and heavy Fife coal trains. On some parts of the network, notably the West Highland Railway Line, they were used for both freight and passenger duties. The engines have been described as being the most successful and the most powerful 0-6-0 tender engines ever employed in Scotland. The first engine shed, a roundhouse, and the workshops comprising St. Margaret's, were built atop a historic well by the North British Railway in 1845. Mainly associated over the following years with the movement of coal and general freight traffic, the depot was never to match its close Edinburgh Haymarket neighbour in glamour of any form.



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Old Photograph LNER Class J83 Steam Train Eastfield Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of an LNER Class J83 steam train in Eastfield Glasgow, Scotland. Eastfield was a steam shed under British Railways with the depot code 65A. The locomotives were designated NBR D class which was later changed to J83 class by the LNER. The engines were originally intended for shunting and freight transfer duties.



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Old Photograph LNER Class J88 Steam Train Eastfield Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of an LNER Class J88 steam train in Eastfield Glasgow, Scotland. Eastfield was a steam shed under British Railways with the depot code 65A. The London and North Eastern Railway was the second largest of the railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. Sir Ralph Wedgwood was the Chief Officer for its first 16 years.



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Old Photograph Steam Train Kittybrewster Aberdeen Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train in Kittybrewster, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. There have been three Kittybrewster railway stations at Kittybrewster, Aberdeen. The first opened in 1854 as a terminus of the Great North of Scotland Railway's first line to Huntly. This was replaced two years later by a station on a new line to a city terminus at Waterloo. It was replaced again when the Denburn Valley Line to Aberdeen Joint opened in 1867. The Great North of Scotland Railway amalgamated with other railways to form the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923 and became part of British Railways when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The station was closed on 6 May 1968. The line remains open as the Aberdeen to Inverness, Highlands, Line.



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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Old Photograph Steam Train Luckie Mucklebackit Dundee Scotland

Old photograph of the steam train Luckie Mucklebackit in the railway station in Dundee, Scotland. Luckie Mucklebackit is a character in The Antiquary, a novel by Sir Walter Scott about several characters including an antiquary: an amateur historian, archaeologist and collector of items of dubious antiquity. The gothic novel, is redolent with family secrets, stories of hidden treasure and hopeless love, with a mysterious, handsome, young man, benighted aristocracy and a night time funeral procession to a ruined abbey. The romance and mystery is counterpoised by some of Scott's more down to earth characters, and grittily unromantic events.



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