Inverkeithing Shipbreaking Yard
Close up of the front of the abandoned Fowler DM shunter at R M Supplies, Inverkeithing on 28 March 2008, with the lettering John Williams (Wishaw) Ltd still visible on the rust. [Railscot note: The John Williams Excelsior Works was a medium sized malleable iron works, started in 1866 and specialising in iron sheets, rolled in sheet mills. In 1879 it installed the first three open hearth furnaces in Motherwell for the manufacture of steel. However, its experiments were not successful and other firms went on to capture the steel market. Williams went on to manufacture wire, nails, staples, rivets and washers.]
Location: Inverkeithing Shipbreaking Yard
Original line: Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway
Photographer: Grant Robertson
Contact photographer: Grant Robertson
Date: 28/03/2008
Image number: 19808
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