Two Black 5s cross at Lairg on 7 June 1960. The platforms were staggered here with the signal box in the far distance and the fireman of the northbound train starts to walk down the platform to collect his next single line token. The southbound train is headed by 44785 from Inverness shed which was built at Horwich in April 1947 and carried a central top feed boiler from November 1954 onwards.