Polmadie Shed

Ex-WD 2-10-0 73776 photographed on Polmadie shed in the summer of 1949. One of a batch of 25 such locomotives purchased from the War Department in 1948, most were not put into operational use until 1949/1950. This example became BR 90752 and survived until withdrawn from here at the end of 1961, before being cut up at Cowlairs some 6 months later.

Location: Polmadie Shed (former)

Original line: Caledonian Railway

Photographer: G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow

Contact photographer: G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow

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Date: 09/07/1949

Image number: 56042


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