Polmadie Shed
Fairburn 2-6-4T 42274 at Polmadie on Friday 28th April 1967. Later that day, the locomotive would take the 5.03pm from Gourock to Glasgow Central, the final steam hauled service on the line. I have subsequently realised that the event had rather wider significance, at least for those of a certain mindset! As far as I know, it was the final occasion, in BR days at any rate, on which a steam locomotive from a Scottish shed worked a scheduled 'Scottish' passenger service. A number of Anglo-Scottish services were hauled by locomotives from south of the border later in 1967, but I believe that this was the last steam-hauled service that started and finished in Scotland.
Location: Polmadie Shed (former)
Original line: Polloc and Govan Railway
Photographer: Robin McGregor
Contact photographer: Robin McGregor
Date: 28/04/1967
Image number: 80990
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