Vintage Colour Slides - Princes Street Gardens In The 1950's and 1960's

                                                                                                                                    Photo © K M Falconer/Colour-Rail SC1046

A busy scene in August 1962 at the west end of the Mound tunnel.  Peppercorn-designed Class A2 4-6-2 no. 60528

 "Tudor Minstrel" heads towards Waverley station as a BRCW Type 2 (Class 24) and Class 120 Swindon DMU

emerge.  No. 60528 was built in February 1948 and was withdrawn from service in June 1966.

                                                                                                                                            Photo © J M Chamney/Colour-Rail SC1161

ex-LMS Class 5MT 4-6-0 no. 45164 powers the 13:07 Waverley - Dundee train through the cutting beneath Edinburgh

Castle.  Note the fine rake of "blood and custard" liveried coaches in the train.  This picture dates from April 1957.

                                                                                                                                            Photo © J M Chamney/Clour-Rail SC 1168

Class A2 4-6-2 no. 60535 "Hornet's Beauty" brings the 13:00 Glasgow Queen Street - Waverley service through Princes

Street Gardens in April 1957.  Although designed by A.H. Peppercorn, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the LNER, this

locomotive entered service under British Railways in June 1948 and was withdrawn from service in June 1965.

                                                                                                                                                 Photo © J M Chamney/Colour-Rail SC 1174

Passing through Prices Street Gardens with the 11:53 from Thornton Junction is ex-LNER Class K2 2-6-0 no. 61721.

The original K2 cabs were not popular with the Scottish crews, so between 1932 and 1935, the Scottish-based K2s

had side window cabs fitted.  This scene dates from June 1958.

                                                                                                                                                    Photo © G H Hunt/Colour-Rail SC1195

A rather grimy ex-LNER Class A3 4-6-2 no. 60079 "Bayardo" runs light engine from Waverley to Haymarket shed

in April 1957.  This locomotive entered service in October 1924 as a Class A1and was converted to Class A3 in May

1928.  Withdrawal was to take place in September 1961.  Like many of the A3 locomotives and the Deltic diesel

locomotives that replaced them, "Bayardo" was named after a thoroughbred race horse.

                                                                                                                                                    Photo © B Nathan/Colour-Rail SC1266

April 1960 and and a very clean BR Standard Class 3MT 2-6-0 no. 77017 heads towards Waverley with an excursion train

from an unknown origin.  Only 20 of this class of locomotive were built.  No. 77017 was allocated to Hurlford shed

(near Kilmarnock) from new.  It was withdrawn in November 1966 and cut up by Wards at Wishaw in April 1967.

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