Cairnie Junction
An Elgin-Aberdeen train via the coast route, arriving at Cairnie Junction in 1964, behind an NBL Type 2. The train is about to cross to the main southbound line, where it will then reverse back into the station. This strange-looking procedure was perhaps a relic from earlier days, when trains via the 'Coast' route usually joined forces with trains from the 'Glen' route, the stock of the latter being left sitting in the platform waiting for the �Coast� portion to reverse on to it before the combined train carried on towards Aberdeen. A curiosity of the track layout at Cairnie was that there did not seem to be a crossover at the far end of the station that would have enabled the Type 2 to enter the station on the main platform line, so the reversal procedure was still having to be used even though there was no train to join up with!
Location: Cairnie Junction (former)
Original line: Great North of Scotland Railway
Photographer: Brian Haslehust
Contact photographer: Brian Haslehust
Date: 31/08/1964
Image number: 82919
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