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Ferryhill MPD
All photographs of this location in date order.
![V2 60919 on the turntable at Ferryhill shed in the 1960s with A4 Pacific no 60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> standing in the sidings beyond. [Thanks to all, including the GNSRA.] <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/18000/18056.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![V2 60919 at the coaling stage at Ferryhill in the early 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/22000/22606.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Broadside view of V2 2-6-2 no 60919 being turned at Ferryhill shed in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/29000/29769.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Gresley A4 Pacific no 60004 <I>William Whitelaw</i> stands on shed at 61B Aberdeen Ferryhill during the A4 twilight years of the 1960s. The locomotive was finally withdrawn from here by BR in July of 1966 and cut up at Motherwell Machinery & Scrap, Wishaw, around three months later.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/29000/29962.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Gresley V2 2-6-2 NO 60919 being coaled at Ferryhill in the 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/30000/30329.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![V2 2-6-2 no 60919 on the turntable at Ferryhill shed, Aberdeen, in the 1960s, with A4 Pacific no 60007 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> standing in the background.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/33000/33362.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A4 Pacific no 60009 <I>'Union of South Africa'</I> photographed on Ferryhill shed between November 1965 and April 1966.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/37000/37240.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A tablet catcher mounted on a Class 5MT at Ferryhill MPD in 1962.<br><br>[David Murray-Smith //1962]](/images/62000/62572.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Ex-WD Austerity 2-8-0 no 90020 stands at the coaling stage at Ferryhill shed in July 1963.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1963]](/images/22000/22868.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Gresley V2 2-6-2 no 60955 taking on water at Ferryhill shed in July 1963.<br><br>[Colin Miller /07/1963]](/images/26000/26280.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Austerity 2-8-0 90020 of 62A Thornton Junction backs off the turntable at Ferryhill shed in July 1963.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller 12/07/1963]](/images/21000/21192.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Gresley A3 Pacific no 4472 <I>Flying Scotsman</I> stands on Ferryhill shed on 16 May 1964, having arrived in Aberdeen earlier that day with the Queens College RTS <I>'Flying Scotsman Railtour'</I> from Edinburgh [see image 36107].<br><br>[K A Gray 16/05/1964]](/images/37000/37537.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![4472 <I>Flying Scotsman</I> on the turntable at Ferryhill during its 4 hour stopover in Aberdeen on 16 May 1964. The A3 had arrived in the city from Edinburgh with the Queens College RTS <I>'Flying Scotsman Railtour'</I>.<br><br>[John Robin 16/05/1964]](/images/50000/50991.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A2 Pacific 60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> standing outside Ferryhill shed circa 1965.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1965]](/images/20000/20654.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A2 Pacific 60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> stands alongside the coaling stage at Ferryhill in 1965.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1965]](/images/21000/21856.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Class A2 Pacific no 60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> comes off Ferryhill shed on its way to Aberdeen station to take out a southbound train. Thought to have been photographed in the summer of 1966 with the train in question likely to be the 1.30pm to Glasgow Buchanan Street.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/34000/34615.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A4 Pacific no 60024 <I>Kingfisher</I> photographed on Ferryhill shed in 1966.<br><br>[K A Gray //1966]](/images/47000/47318.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Black 5 no 44720, a visitor from 62B, Dundee Tay Bridge, photographed on Ferryhill shed in August 1966.<br><br>[G W Robin /08/1966]](/images/46000/46795.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A4 60034 <I>Lord Farringdon</I> being turned at Ferryhill in August 1966.<br><br>[G W Robin /08/1966]](/images/47000/47775.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![60019 <I>Bittern</I> stands alongside 60024 <I>Kingfisher</I> at Ferryhill Shed in September 1966.<br><br>[John Robin 03/09/1966]](/images/6000/6918.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A4 Pacific 60024 <I>Kingfisher</I> receives visitors in the gloom of Ferryhill shed on 3 September 1966 as Type 2 diesel D5307 looks on in the background. The official BR withdrawal date for 60024 was 5 September 1966, two days after this photograph was taken. <br><br>[Colin Miller 03/09/1966]](/images/22000/22851.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![60019 <I>Bittern</I> being serviced on shed at Ferryhill in September 1966 after bringing in a special from Glasgow.<br><br>[Colin Miller 03/09/1966]](/images/27000/27590.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A4 60019 <I>Bittern</I> receiving attention at Ferryhill shed on 3 September 1966 after bringing in the BR (Scottish Region) Glasgow Buchanan Street - Aberdeen <I>A4 Farewell Tour</I>.<br><br>[G W Robin 03/09/1966]](/images/47000/47401.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![60019 <I>Bittern</I> in the shed yard at Ferryhill on 3 September 1966 being prepared for the return leg of the BR 'A4 Farewell Tour' to Buchanan Street.<br><br>[John Robin 03/09/1966]](/images/50000/50701.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Peppercorn A2 Pacific no 60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> photographed on Ferryhill shed, Aberdeen, on 5 November 1966.<br><br>[G W Robin 05/11/1966]](/images/45000/45539.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Inside looking out. Scene at Ferryhill shed on 5 November 1966. In the background is A2 Pacific 60532 <I>Blue Peter</I>, while taking water on the right is V2 2-6-2 60836. The V2 had arrived earlier off the BR (Scottish Region) <I>Last V2 Excursion</I> from Edinburgh. [See image 45627]<br><br>[G W Robin 05/11/1966]](/images/47000/47643.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Gresley V2 60836 on Ferryhill shed in November 1966 after working into Aberdeen with the BR <I>Last V2 Excursion</I> from Edinburgh.<br><br>[G W Robin 05/11/1966]](/images/47000/47859.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![After a hard day's work, what better than a spell of sleeping and messing - although not necessarily in that order. Seen in a corner of the shed yard at Aberdeen Ferryhill in 1967 is this venerable six-wheeled 'Sleeping & Messing Van' [BR Engineer's Dept Aberdeen District DE 320564]. <br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1967]](/images/36000/36722.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![The coaling stage features prominently in this scene at Ferryhill MPD photographed in 1967 [see image 22606].<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1967]](/images/36000/36784.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![4498 <I>Sir Nigel Gresley</I> on the turntable at Ferryhill shed on 20 May 1967.<br><br>[G W Robin 20/05/1967]](/images/45000/45571.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Sunday layover at Aberdeen Ferryhill depot on 5th March 1972. BR Blue D265 is in the foreground but 359 in green has lost the prefix. Classes 08 and 47 can also be seen. <br>
<br><br>[Graeme Blair 05/03/1972]](/images/61000/61163.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Class 40 264 receives attention at Ferryhill MPD in January 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre /01/1973]](/images/14000/14283.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Tales of old Ferryhill 2. The notice reads <I>STOP. Proceed on turntable slowly</I>. C 1973. <br><br>[John McIntyre /01/1973]](/images/14000/14361.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Tales of old Ferryhill 1. Fuelling area - the sign reads <I>Warning. No steam locomotives beyond this point. By order.</I> C 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre /01/1973]](/images/14000/14363.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Tales of old Ferryhill 3. The wagon mounted tank looks like the waste oil container. Several oil drums and barrows for transporting them around the shed can also be seen. The converted Gresley teak bodied coach forms part of the Ferryhill breakdown train, C. 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre /01/1973]](/images/14000/14381.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Tales of old Ferryhill no 43. Grounded old coaching stock - used in steam depots for everything from the general store to the tea bothy to the bike shed. Craiginches prison stands on the horizon on a grey day in 1973. <br><br>[John McIntyre /01/1973]](/images/14000/14382.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A reasonable selection of tracton on Ferryhill MPD in January 1973. Class 25 no 5227 is nearest the camera with Class 47, 24 and Swindon Cross Country units in evidence.<br><br>[John McIntyre /01/1973]](/images/26000/26408.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Bothy, tool store, covered bike shed, office, training room, toilet facility etc.. at one time the highly adaptable 'grounded coach' was a feature of virtually every steam shed. This one (complete with padlock) was located near the south end of the coaling stage at Ferryhill in 1973. Class 40 no 264 can just be seen in the left background.<br><br>[John McIntyre /01/1973]](/images/32000/32378.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![The former Caledonian Railway engine shed at Aberdeen Ferryhill, seen here in 1973. This shed was later replaced by a larger (but now demolished) version. I believe that this may now be the only remaining railway building on the old 61B site. Having been used for a period by Aberdeen Corporation, it is now back in railway use, although no longer rail connected.<br><br>[John McIntyre /01/1973]](/images/32000/32399.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Close up of the front end of Class 25 no 5227 outside the shed at Aberdeen Ferryhill in the 1970s. Under the number is a clue that the loco has been based elsewhere as it retains a 'Bristol' sticker.<br><br>[John McIntyre /01/1973]](/images/36000/36466.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A Swindon Cross Country unit stabled alongside Aberdeen Ferryhill MPD in January 1973 between turns on Aberdeen - Inverness services. The former coaling bank is to the right and the main line is in the background.<br><br>[John McIntyre /01/1973]](/images/37000/37534.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Brush Type 4 no 1972 outside Ferryhill MPD in January 1973. The scar behind the cab door suggests a recent close encounter. <br><br>[John McIntyre /01/1973]](/images/38000/38642.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![BRC&W Type 2 no 5324 receiving some attention in the yard outside Ferryhill shed in January 1973, with the right hand end of the locomotive on blocks and the bogie having been removed.<br><br>[John McIntyre /01/1973]](/images/38000/38680.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Former Aberdeen Gasworks 0-4-0 tank locomotives stored at Ferryhill MPD in January 1973 with 'Mr Therm' taking centre stage [see image 18043].<br><br>[John McIntyre /01/1973]](/images/38000/38697.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Class 40 no 360 about to leave Ferryhill in April 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1973]](/images/14000/14336.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Class 47 no 1628 and class 26 no D5312 await their next duties at Ferryhill MPD on 23 April 1973<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 23/04/1973]](/images/20000/20616.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Barclay 0-4-0 shunter no 2423 appears to be have recently returned from a visit to the paint shop. Photographed on shed at Ferryhill on 23 April 1973.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre 23/04/1973]](/images/28000/28499.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Brush Type 4 no 1628 coupled to BRCW no D5312 at Ferryhill MPD on 23 April 1973. There appears to be a cloud of steam around the front of the Type 4, suggesting that the driver is checking the steam heating equipment before moving off shed to take over a train at Aberdeen station.<br><br>[John McIntyre 23/04/1973]](/images/28000/28509.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![1950 ready for action at Ferryhill MPD, 03 June 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre 03/06/1973]](/images/14000/14281.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Looking across the turntable at Ferryhill MPD, 03 June 1973, with the coaling stage road up on the right.<br><br>[John McIntyre 03/06/1973]](/images/14000/14294.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Quiet Sunday at Ferryhill in June 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre 03/06/1973]](/images/14000/14337.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Three ex-Aberdeen Gasworks 0-4-0 tank engines stored in the southwest corner of Ferryhill MPD in 1973. Left to right are <I>Bon Accord, Mr Therm</I> and <I>No 3</I>. [See image 12565]<br><br>[John McIntyre 03/06/1973]](/images/18000/18043.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Shunters on Shed - a Barclay Class 06 no 2423 and three Class 08 shunters bufferred up to one another at Ferryhill MPD in 1973.<br><br>[John McIntyre 03/06/1973]](/images/23000/23886.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A Brush Type 4 in two tone green approaches Aberdeen Ferryhill SB with a northbound service in June 1973. This view is taken from the approaches to Ferryhill MPD and Ferryhill SB can be seen on the left of the photograph.<br><br>[John McIntyre 03/06/1973]](/images/26000/26605.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Aberdeen Gas Works Barclay 0-4-0ST 'No.3' stands at the back of Ferryhill MPD on 03 June 1973. This was one of the three Gas Works 0-4-0ST locos that were stored at the site for a number of years. <br><br>[John McIntyre 03/06/1973]](/images/60000/60579.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Full house! Aberdeen Ferryhill MPD, 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre //1974]](/images/12000/12466.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![View across the turntable pit at Ferryhill shed in 1974.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1974]](/images/14000/14071.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A pair of class 47s take a northbound train past Ferryhill MPD in 1974.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1974]](/images/14000/14087.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Lineup of main line locomotives at Ferryhill MPD, C. 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre //1974]](/images/14000/14278.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Ferryhill with 1632, D2444 and D3877 in the locomotive sidings. C. 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre //1974]](/images/14000/14393.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Lineup at Ferryhill MPD in 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre //1974]](/images/16000/16675.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![On shed at Ferryhill MPD in 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre //1974]](/images/16000/16744.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A class 47 coming off Ferryhill shed and onto the main line in 1974 in the process of running to Aberdeen station to take over a train.<br><br>[John McIntyre //1974]](/images/18000/18318.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![47049 on shed at Ferryhill MPD in 1974. <br><br>[John McIntyre //1974]](/images/19000/19208.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A pair of EE Type 4 (Class 40) locomotives rest between duties just outside Ferryhill MPD in 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre //1974]](/images/23000/23766.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![40135 awits its next duty on shed at Ferryhill in 1974. The loco is still in BR Green with lion and wheel crest although it has received a TOPS number. At the right hand end the original number has been painted out.<br><br>[John McIntyre //1974]](/images/26000/26445.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![With the remains of the coaling bank on the left and Ferryhill's main shed to the right, this view is along the refuelling road during the early summer of 1974. Looks like a full house with so many locomotives stabled in the shed yard.<br><br>[John McIntyre //1974]](/images/26000/26450.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A pair of Class 40s (40135 nearest the camera), a Class 47 and Class 26 outside Ferryhill MPD in 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre //1974]](/images/26000/26644.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A Class 47 on shed at Ferryhill between turns in 1974. To the right is a Class 120 Swindon Cross Country DMU.<br><br>[John McIntyre //1974]](/images/42000/42724.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Class 47 and class 24 locomotives stand outside the shed at Ferryhill in 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1974]](/images/17000/17392.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![26011 stands outside Ferryhill shed in 1974.<br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1974]](/images/17000/17588.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![The 3 ex-Aberdeen Gasworks steam locomotives grounded at Ferryhill shed in 1974 within the compound being used at that time by the Aberdeen Corporation Parks Department. Nearest the camera is No 3 undergoing restoration work. This locomotive is now a permanent exhibit outside the Grampian Transport Museum, Alford. [see image 12565] <br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1974]](/images/18000/18062.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![An interesting mix of diesel motive power stands in the yard at Ferryhill MPD in April 1974. From left to right are 26011, an unidentified Class 47 and 24118.<br>
<br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1974]](/images/32000/32314.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Looking towards Ferryhill MPD in April 1974 with a Class 47 standing in the shed yard awaiting its next turn.<br><br>[John McIntyre /04/1974]](/images/32000/32383.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Three ex-Aberdeen Gasworks withdrawn steam locomotives stand alongside the turntable at Ferryhill shed in 1975.<br><br>[John McIntyre //1975]](/images/18000/18434.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![The 3 ex-Aberdeen Gasworks withdrawn steam locomotives standing at Ferryhill shed in 1975. <br><br>[John McIntyre //1975]](/images/18000/18766.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![26033 comes off shed at Ferryhill in May 1975 and heads for Aberdeen station.<br><br>[John McIntyre /05/1975]](/images/14000/14388.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Class 40 leaving Ferryhill MPD in May 1975 on its way to Aberdeen station to take a train south.<br><br>[John McIntyre /05/1975]](/images/14000/14409.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A Class 47 comes off shed at Aberdeen Ferryhill in May 1975 and heads towards Aberdeen station.<br><br>[John McIntyre /05/1975]](/images/55000/55108.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![A Class 27 stands in the shed yard at Aberdeen, Ferryhill, in October 1981.<br><br>[Colin Alexander 24/10/1981]](/images/38000/38533.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![View over Ferryhill in 1986.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1986]](/images/15000/15417.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Ferryhill Shed, photographed in November 1988, not long after closure. [Access by kind permission of British Rail]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 03/11/1988]](/images/15000/15303.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![The turntable at Ferryhill shed, photographed on 5 November 2008.<br><br>[John Crouch 05/11/2008]](/images/21000/21359.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![Part of the remains of the former Ferryhill shed on 5 November 2008. <br><br>[John Crouch 05/11/2008]](/images/21000/21363.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![<a target=external href=http://www.ferryhillrailwayht.org.uk/>Ferryhill turntable <img src=/images/Icon_External_Link.png></a> has been temporarily been removed for restoration by e-blast Ltd of Kintore.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 20/02/2017]](/images/58000/58177.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
![This is the original steam shed, now part of Ferryhill Heritage Railway Trust taken through the fence from the Duthie Park. The locomotive is Ex-CEGB, RSH 0-6-0T, Works No. 7846 at the Ferryhill Motive Power Depot.<br><br>[Alan Cormack 16/03/2017]](/images/58000/58521.jpg "Ferryhill MPD")
