Date: 07/08/2022

Acclaimed behind-the-scenes tours of Scotlands busiest station are to be dramatically enhanced with a steam locomotive earmarked to be the centrepiece of a restored Victorian-age platform in the bowels of the building.

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Steam locomotive to help create immersive Victorian-era rail attraction at Glasgow Central

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Acclaimed behind-the-scenes tours of Scotlands busiest station are to be dramatically enhanced with a steam locomotive earmarked to be the centrepiece of a restored Victorian-age platform in the bowels of the building.

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'Kelton Fell', Neilson Reid 2203 of 1876 built for William Baird & Co. and delivered to the hematite mine of the same name in Cumberland. It subsequently worked at other Baird mines in Scotland and finally at Gartshore before being donated by the NCB to the SRPS in 1968. In steam at an SRPS Open Day at Springfield Yard, Falkirk in 1975.
Location: Springfield Yard
Company: Dalderse and Springfield Iron Works Branch (North British Railway)
//1975 Bill Roberton

Pillar supporting the roof of the disused platforms at low level Glasgow Central.
Location: Glasgow Central Low Level
Company: Glasgow Central Railway
29/06/2015 John Yellowlees

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