1ngram Posted January 15, 2012 Share Posted January 15, 2012 In case this hasn't been posted before. Thousands of Aberdeen Harbour board photos are available online as part of AU Library Special Collections here: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/harbour/Intro.shtml If you search around ('railway' is a good starting point) you can find photos of wagons from GNSR and CR etc, steam cranes, etc. in fact a superb collection of photos of a working harbour from the Nineteenth Century right through to post WW2. Some tremendous stuff here for modellers. My particular favouritres are the photos of wagon loads of pit props and the ramps being used to load them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 In case this hasn't been posted before. Thousands of Aberdeen Harbour board photos are available online as part of AU Library Special Collections here: http://www.abdn.ac.u...our/Intro.shtml If you search around ('railway' is a good starting point) you can find photos of wagons from GNSR and CR etc, steam cranes, etc. in fact a superb collection of photos of a working harbour from the Nineteenth Century right through to post WW2. Some tremendous stuff here for modellers. My particular favouritres are the photos of wagon loads of pit props and the ramps being used to load them. Thanks for the Link. Very interesting website. Mac Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
emac Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Great link started searching and found few great pictures which I saved the links too A good photo of Crainlarich Lower and Rannoch which must have been taken shortly after the line was opened as been said good railway archive eddie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 I really like this: http://www.abdn.ac.u...harb_id=AHB2051 http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/harbour/harb_single.php?harb_id=AHB2050 Despite what the captions say, I think this is a Great North of Scotland engine, but I've never seen a picture of anything like it before. Who knows what it is? An Aveling & Porter product? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1ngram Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 I really like this: http://www.abdn.ac.u...harb_id=AHB2051 http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/harbour/harb_single.php?harb_id=AHB2050 Despite what the captions say, I think this is a Great North of Scotland engine, but I've never seen a picture of anything like it before. Who knows what it is? An Aveling & Porter product? Quite a few of the railway photos have incorrect captions - in particular they insist on calling photos of GNS wagons Caley - mistaking the G for some sort of C. They have been informed of this by members of the GNSRA but still haven't fixed it. As for the loco it was hired by the GNSR at some point for use on the docks. Dick Jackson deals with this "mysterious " loco in his article in Railway Bylines March 1999 - "Rails Around Aberdeen Harbour". Some think it was on hire from Glenlossie Distillery during the Carter's strike of 1913 when there is evidence a loco was used on the harbour rails but Jackson argues that there are details on this one that don't seem likely for a distillery loco. As he put it "The 'mystery' Aveling Porter locomotive at Aberdeen has perplexed generations of GNSR historians - can any Bylines read shed some light, please?" Anyone here? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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