TRAINSPOTTERS in Glasgow had a field day back in 1965 when this old steam engine puffed its way into Queen Street Station.

Described as ‘the one-time pride of the Highland Railway’ the No 103 Jones Goods was brought back into service to ferry a load of railway enthusiasts on a “wet, cold complicated trip of 101 miles…around the back yards of Southern Glasgow’.

Not sure East Kilbride, Paisley, Greenock and Kilmacolm would have enjoyed being referred to in this way, but that’s where the train went, carrying 180 passengers ‘nearly all carrying cameras or portable tape-recorders and at least two-thirds of them from south of the Border.’

Glasgow Times: North side of the Clyde, 1966. Pic: Newsquest

The point of the trip, it seems from our report, was to go ‘in and out of yards and junctions and sidings, through the gauntlet of junctions to the Terminus Quay for example and the complicated shuntings at Blackstone Junction just to do a long slow trip in reverse through miles of rhubarb fields to Linwood.”

From trains to boats, and two fantastic pictures from our archive – firstly, this incredible shot of the north side of the Clyde, which was taken by our photographers in 1966.

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The caption on the back notes the yards from left as: “Barclay Curle’s repair yard, Yarrow’s, Connell’s and Barclay Curle’s shipyard.

Glasgow Times: Whisky leaving Glasgow, 1976

Secondly, a photographer was on hand to capture the ‘biggest cargo of whisky to be shipped out of Glasgow for 10 years – 2300 tonnes – is loaded aboard the Holstenstal at King George V Dock, bound for South America.’

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