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They were also applied to the NB D61XX rebuilt with Paxman engines. Class21/29 respectively.

I believe that 7 are Irish Great Northern.

8 is a Caledonian 0-4-4T at Beattock Summit. It has just dropped off the train it banked from Beattock.

Got to be Patriot or Baby Scot 4-6-0s numbers 5500-5551.

I think their decline commenced even before dieselisation when Polmadie aquired 5 Britannia Pacifics. They still retained the Clans essentially because no other shed would have them. There were several attempts to palm them off on Haymarket and St Margarets but they were always quickly returned with thanks but no thanks. So they seemed to have little diagrammed work and would only appear on weekend or special passenger workings with only freight train working for most of the time, or standing "not required".

In the same BTC report was the strange statement " All electric vehicles are lighted by electricity." I had to pause and think about that one! I assume they refer to electric multiple unit stock.

A quote from The Railway Observer October 1950 which in turn quotes the BTC Report and Accounts for 1949; "Of a total of 36,591 passenger carriages, 35,226 (96.3%) are electrically lighted, 1,248 (3.7%) are gas lighted, 1 is oil lighted and, 16 are officially not lighted at all." Could the last 2 catagories qualify as most basic? Any suggestions for what types they were? also for the gas lit.

5 looks like a North British N15 0-6-2T possibly in BR livery but a GW wagon in the train might indicate an earlier date.

I don't think the Mark 1 description was ever used before introduction of the Mark 2 designs.

Type training was not a feature of steam engine operation. Any crew was expected to operate any steam engine without specific training. Occasionally this could have dire consequences. An example. On 10th September 1940 Coronation Pacific 6224 in charge of a passed fireman and passed cleaner dropped a plug between Cleghorn and Carstairs. The fireman was killed in the resulting boiler explosion. These inexperienced men had no real experience of the type on main line work.

It was very much a policy decision to eliminate as many classes as possible. Classes eliminated in December 1962 from Scottish Region stock included Stanier 3P 2-6-2T, Fowler 4F 0-6-0, Jubilee 6P 4-6-0, Royal Scot 7P 4-6-0, J39 0-6-0, 8F WD 2-10-0. In addition large numbers of Black Five 4-6-0, Ivatt 4MT 2-6-4T, Gresley V2 2-6-2, and 3 Duchess Pacifics were included. Not all of them were in poor condition!!

Swindon did not build any class 08 shunters. They did build 6 to a Hawksworth design which was roughly similar.

Yeadon's Register of LNER Locomotives Volume 4 has a good view of 60927 on page 39 at Haymarket (I think).

"The Power of The V2s" by Gavin Morrison OPC 2001 has 60927 on page 95 at Steele Road on the Waverley Route 3/12/62 and 60965 at Hawick on page 92 12/7/58. Both are St Margarets allocated and in dirty unkept condition.

60934 appears on page 150/151 of the above book, in BR lined black livery with British Railways on the tender, so early BR days. Seen at Lincoln.