Shankend
Platform scene at Shankend on 28 December 1968, with little more than a week to go before the last scheduled operations over the Waverley route. The train is the 9.30am Edinburgh - Carlisle (carrying through coaches for St Pancras) and the locomotive in charge is Brush Type 4 no 1536. [The same train was photographed by Kenneth Gray less than 20 minutes earlier as it entered Hawick station, some 7 miles to the north.] see image 32092.
Location: Shankend (former)
Original line: Border Union Railway (North British Railway)
Photographer: Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)
Contact photographer: Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)
Date: 28/12/1968
Image number: 34359
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