I think the Northern Lights headboard was used to motivate the Ferry Hill Depot workers after stabling and attention to visiting locomotives stopped in the mid-1980s. Ferry Hill lost its allocation of 08s in December 1987.
Location: Aberdeen
Original line: Aberdeen Joint (Caledonian Railway)
Photographer: Crinan Dunbar
Contact photographer: Crinan Dunbar
Date: 1987
Image number: 60294