Cowlairs Incline

Scene on Cowlairs incline in the summer of 1955 as a Queen Street - Perth train passes a convoy of light locomotives descending from Eastfield shed to take over later departures from the station. The Perth train is hauled by one of 65A's Director class 4-4-0s no 62684 Wizard of the Moor, while the locomotive on the left is shedmate B1 4-6-0 no 61140, complete with the self-weighing tender fitted at Doncaster Works in 1952.

Location: Cowlairs Incline

Original line: Edinburgh and Glasgow 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: 04/07/1955

Image number: 67062


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