Steam on Shed
There's a sad and sorry tale attached to this picture which is one of my own slides. This is McIntosh class 439 0-4-4T No. 55204 which entered service on the Caledonian Railway in 1910 and was withdrawn from service at Perth shed (63A) in December 1962. But hang on, this was taken in late August 1964 and so she'd hung around for nearly two years but her days really were numbered by then as she was scrapped in the December of that year. That isn't the sad tale though. I also took a front threequsrter shot which was deposited with a well known archive magazine that seems to have lost it. Apart from a strictly controlled batch of submissions to Irwell Press which was managed in exemplary fashion I haven't allowedf a single original image to leave my prenises.