'Not today thanks...' seems to be the message from the driver of Black 5 no 45124 in July 1962 as he takes an express freight past a waiting banking locomotive at Beattock South and continues the journey north unabated.

Location: Beattock (former)

Original line: Caledonian Railway

Photographer: R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)

Contact photographer: R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)

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Date: 07/1962

Image number: 38476

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