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  1. 16 hours ago, pH said:


    Definitely was! I saw the end of steam banking out of Queen Street, when they were using V1/V3 tanks, all the N15s having been withdrawn. By then, steam locos as train engines were very rare.

    I have one of those. I have made a representation of the cable running from the cab to the front coupling

    20220822_095617.jpg

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  2. 39 minutes ago, GordonC said:

     

    where would smoke from the low level have been visible at the high level?

    There were two open air sections at each end of the low level station but these were outside the footprint of the high level station. The only source of smoke within the high level station would have been the stairwells to the low level station which were located towards the George Sq end of the station.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Dunalastair said:

    Given a choice between a posting there and e.g. Corrour, I think I know which I'd choose. Even if the wages were better in Glasgow, there would be nothing to spend money on living on the Moor.

    I don't know how much choice railway staff had in terms of location.

    My grandfather was a stationmaster on the LNER. In 1937 he was posted from Cockburnspath on the ECML to Auchtermuchty in Fife. No running water and no electricity. He stayed 3 weeks then told them to stuff it and went back to Cockburnspath.

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  4. 50 minutes ago, Dunalastair said:

    Must have been a challenging posting for the signallers' lungs, even allowing that everybody smoked in those days. Diesel fumes were perhaps not necessarily an improvement. But considering how late the low-level platforms were steam-worked before the blue trains settled down, probably nobody thought anything of it at the time (except for the signallers' wives, working overtime on washday). 

    I think you are right, especially when you consider nearly every train leaving GQS would be be going full bore to get up the incline and most trains would be banked too. Must have been pretty noisy as well!

  5. 28 minutes ago, Legend said:

      I don’t remember the signal box it must be before my time . I think Queen St had been remodelled by the time I took an interest . It was certainly dieselised 

    The signal box was closed in 1967.Control was moved to a panel in Cowlairs box. You will remember the gantry on which the box sat. It was left in situ. Any picture of the 70s or 80s will show it.As far as I know it is still there though that bit is covered over now by later development.

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  6. 3 hours ago, brylonscamel said:

    It certainly is .. PS did you manage to find good photos of the signal box. The photos I found online were all wreathed in smoke from locomotives!

    I found a good picture of the front. The back ie facing the tunnel, is a work of fiction.

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