While far from ideal photographic conditions (see the marker lights on the leading loco), this shot seems to capture the essence of how I remember late autumn/winter afternoons in Edinburgh in the late sixties/early seventies. It shows a pair of class 26s passing Haymarket depot with the 14.50 Edinburgh Waverley - Inverness (green D5335 and blue D5344, both of Inveness). Having restarted from its first stop at Haymarket the train will travel via the Glenfarg line, calling at Inverkeithing, Rosyth Halt, Dunfermline, Cowdenbeath and Kinross Junction to reach Perth at 16.03, quicker, if only by a few minutes, than the equivalent service today which stops only at Kirkcaldy and Markinch.

Location: Haymarket MPD

Original line: Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway

Photographer: Bill Jamieson

Contact photographer: Bill Jamieson

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Date: 22/10/1969

Image number: 32132

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