Time Capsules - Old Photographs from the past

73148 at Coupar Angus/Gleneagles railway station

Taken in the 1950s, this photograph shows the Perthshire Railway station located between Stirling and Perth that opened in 1837 and closed in 1967.

The locomotive is a Standard Class 5 4-6-0 with Caprotti valve gear, which was fitted to a batch of 30 out of a total of 172. All the Caprotti-fitted Class 5 locomotives were built at Derby, and no. 73148 was in a batch built in 1957 and allocated to the Scottish Region of British Railways. 5 of these engines were preserved.

Photo © The Step Back Through Time Collection
Text courtesy of Peter Langsdale