Date: 09/04/2018

A LONG chapter in Glasgows transport history came to a quiet end, not long before midnight on Sunday, November 6, 1966. The departure of the 11.25pm train to Inverness out of the old Caledonian Railways Buchanan Street station marked the close of the stations 117 years of service. Henceforth the train would leave from Queen Street station - the stronghold, as the Glasgow Heralds Samuel Hunter column pointed out, of North British and L.N.E.R. interests in nearly a century of railway rivalry. Well, we may feel our old loyalties, the Buchanan Street station-master, John Orr, said, but we are all British Railways people now. Mr Orr was being given a temporary posting to Queen Street. Most of his staff at Buchanan Street - and there were 120 of them in all, what with clerks, inspectors, signalmen, ticket-collectors, guards, porters and carriage cleaners - were also now bound for Queen Street, with the rest earmarked for other stations across the city.

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A LONG chapter in Glasgows transport history came to a quiet end, not long before midnight on Sunday, November 6, 1966. The departure of the

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Built at Gorton Works in 1949, Thomson B1 4-6-0 no 61347 spent almost its whole life in Scotland. The locomotive is pictured here on a train at Glasgow's Buchanan Street station in the 1960s at which time home was at Thornton Junction. A part of what became Scotrail House can be seen under construction in the background. 61347 was withdrawn from 62A in April 1967 and cut up at McLellans at Langloan some 3 months later.
Location: Buchanan Street
Company: Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway)
// Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)

A2 Pacific 60532 Blue Peter brings a train into Buchanan Street in August 1966. The locomotive was at that time allocated to 62B Dundee Tay Bridge shed, from which it was officially withdrawn by BR 4 months later on 31 December 1966. Named after the winner of the 1939 Derby, the now preserved Blue Peter is the sole survivor of the 15 original Peppercorn A2s.
Location: Buchanan Street
Company: Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway)
/08/1966 G W Robin

Stanier Black 5 no 45468, immaculately turned out by St Rollox shed, takes the 'Fife Coast Express' out of Buchanan Street in 1959 at the commencement of its cross-country journey to St Andrews [see image 34385]. Even the signalman seems impressed.
Location: Buchanan Street
Company: Buchanan Street Extension (Caledonian Railway)
//1959 Gordon Smith Collection (Courtesy Ken Browne)