Mr Bushy
37407 Dumbarton Central 1Y13 12th Feb 1986
Snow capped Kilpatrick Hills provide a spectacular backdrop as 37407 canters into Dumbarton Central with 1Y13 on Wednesday 12th February 1986. The 0840 from Fort William misses this 1220 Oban service at Glasgow Queen Street by 10 minutes requiring a 48 minute wait here with plenty of time for lunch-typically a bag of greasy chips with salt & sauce washed down with a bottle of Irn Bru. Talking of girders, the locomotive is passing over Church Street as it enters the east end of the station while on the left are the ornate battlements parallel with Bankend Road-the whole station being sited high above the town on an impressive viaduct, the Up Passenger Loop on the left has now been lifted. The plate above 37407's drawbar is noticeably higher than on most of the class giving a distinct notch in the bottom of the bodywork, both ends were like that. This view concludes my short interlude of photographs taken exactly 29 years before posting.
37407 Dumbarton Central 1Y13 12th Feb 1986
Snow capped Kilpatrick Hills provide a spectacular backdrop as 37407 canters into Dumbarton Central with 1Y13 on Wednesday 12th February 1986. The 0840 from Fort William misses this 1220 Oban service at Glasgow Queen Street by 10 minutes requiring a 48 minute wait here with plenty of time for lunch-typically a bag of greasy chips with salt & sauce washed down with a bottle of Irn Bru. Talking of girders, the locomotive is passing over Church Street as it enters the east end of the station while on the left are the ornate battlements parallel with Bankend Road-the whole station being sited high above the town on an impressive viaduct, the Up Passenger Loop on the left has now been lifted. The plate above 37407's drawbar is noticeably higher than on most of the class giving a distinct notch in the bottom of the bodywork, both ends were like that. This view concludes my short interlude of photographs taken exactly 29 years before posting.