Waiting for the locomotive
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Waiting for the locomotive
Image: © Richard Sutcliffe Taken: Unknown
The brake van has been detached, while British Rail Class 27 27019 shunts wagons in the yard at Maud to add to its train to take on to Fraserburgh. By this date the station (closed to passengers in 1965) was no longer a junction, the line to Peterhead having closed in 1970. There was still just enough goods traffic on the line to Fraserburgh to justify some irregular freight trains such as this one. The person in the brake van is a friend. We both bought an official 'brake van' ticket to let us ride from Aberdeen to Fraserburgh and back to experience the line before it closed. In fact we got to ride in the rear cab of the loco for most of the way back! The line closed the following year (1979). In the distance on the right is Maud and Savoch Church.
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Image Location
Latitude
57.518506
Longitude
-2.130197