D262 1960s Inverkeithing East Junction
Inverkeithing East Junction, taking the route to the Forth Bridge with a fish train. D262 is quite new and before re-building with headcode boxes and is a Haymarket engine having gone there from new. On a Fish train that would have been made up at Aberdeen from trains originating there and at Peterhead and Frazerburgh before heading to the markets in the south. Some took the west coast route with latterly a Princess or Coronation at the head usually shedded at Carlisle Kingmoor and were a magnet for spotters. After 1964,an LNER Pacific or V2 from Aberdeen was in charge, all before the dreaded diesel.