'Lucy Ashton', an LNE 4-4-0, awaits her fate at the Bargeddie Scrapyard
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'Lucy Ashton', an LNE 4-4-0, awaits her fate at the Bargeddie Scrapyard
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 5 Oct 1961
Together with a sister engine behind her, No. 62680 'Lucy Ashton' (a D11/2 'Improved Director' 4-4-0), which had been since 1924 on LNER (ex-North British) passenger trains in Central Scotland, was recently condemned at Eastfield (Glasgow) Shed and is 'awaiting the torch', next to the LMS 4-4-0 depicted in Image
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Image Location
Latitude
55.860023
Longitude
-4.075551