GER B12/1 4-6-0 No 8500, fited with ACFI feed water heater, stands at Elgin in c1934.

Peter Kerslake adds "This is the first of the S69s, originally numbered by the Great Eastern as 1500, It was one of 25 sent to Scotland during 1931 to work the Great North of Scotland line, the last survivng north of the border until 1954."

Photo: William Clark/Rail Archive Stephenson