Indian takeaway for iron horses
WITH the return to Glasgow last week of a Glasgow-built Stanier 8F steam train, today we make tracks for the famous North British Locomotive Company's Springburn works.
Formed in 1903 through the merger of three Glasgow locomotive manufacturing companies, NBL was one of Scotland's true industrial giants.
The three beauties above, and we're talking about the locos, not the men working on them, were destined for the Indian Railways. With cow-catchers on the front and their massive headlights, they were true behemoths of the track.
Sadly, somewhere in a siding or a shed in Gujurat or Uttar Pradesh, these Glasgow-built beasts will be slowly rusting away and their metals returning to the earth from which they were once mined.
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