The End Is Nigh
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The End Is Nigh by Martin Addison as part of the Geograph project.
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The End Is Nigh
Image: © Martin Addison Taken: 27 May 1978
The scrap line of St Rollox Works with Class 40, 40072, awaiting final dismemberment by the cutters torch. In front are the bogies and last vestiges of a Class 24 or 25 (there's not enough left to be certain which). Beyond the fence are the sheds of Sighthill Freight Terminal, soon to be demolished themselves. The whole of the area in this image has now become a retail park. I have located the image as best possible in the circumstances using Old Maps as a reference and another image of 40072 from the opposite end. A view of the same locomotive at work two years earlier can be seen at Image
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Image Location
Latitude
55.874214
Longitude
-4.225136