Date: 29/09/2022

HM Factory Gretna stretched for nine miles and was home to tens of thousands of workers.

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HM Factory Gretna stretched for nine miles and was home to tens of thousands of workers.

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Fireless 0-6-0 steam locomotive Sir James on display outside the Devil's Porridge museum, Eastriggs, on 25 August 2014. Built by Andrew Barclay & Sons in 1917, the refurbished locomotive was originally used at the Gretna Royal Ordnance Factory [works no AB 1550/1917].
Location: Eastriggs MOD
Company: HM Factory Gretna Railway
25/08/2014 Brian Smith

Outside the Devil's Porridge museum in Eastriggs are two railway exhibits. The camouflage painted standard gauge 0-6-0 fireless locomotive is very visible from the road See image [[48483]] but this narrow gauge wagon on the other side of the building might be overlooked. As the Longtown-Gretna-Eastriggs complex was nine miles long with a fleet of over forty locomotives there must have been hundreds of railway wagons in use there at the height of munitions production.
Location: Eastriggs MOD
Company: HM Factory Gretna Railway
31/01/2016 Mark Bartlett

A rail level crossing at MoD Eastriggs on 30 June 2014. The 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway was used to move materials and supplies around the sites. The network, which had 125 miles of track, employed 34 engines. The Ministry of Supply began using Eastriggs in the 1930s for ammunition storage, with ammunition transported from storage bunkers within the site by the narrow-gauge system.
Location: Eastriggs MOD
Company: HM Factory Gretna Railway
30/06/2014 David Spaven

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