One of many condemned locomotives dumped in sidings at Bo'ness in 1961
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One of many condemned locomotives dumped in sidings at Bo'ness in 1961
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 4 Oct 1961
No. 57472 is one of the numerous ex-Caledonian Drummond 'Jumbo' 2F 0-6-0s (built c. 1890, withdrawn 9/61). Note the Westinghouse pump for passenger train work - and of course the 'stovepipe' chimney.
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