Glasgow and South Western Railway

1852.

1855.

1879-80.

1888-9.

1904. No. 1 built at the Kilmarnock Works.

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Six-coupled Locomotive. 1905.

1911.

January 1918.

1922. Baltic type tank engine by Robert Harben Whitelegg.

1923. Baltic tank loco.

January 1923.

1925.

1957. Dornoch Firth.

Britannia. No. 70043.

1964.

of St. Enoch Railway Station, Glasgow.

The Glasgow and South Western Railway, (G&SWR), one of the pre-grouping railway companies, served a triangular area of south-west Scotland, between Glasgow, Stranraer and Carlisle.

The first railway in Scotland authorised by Act of Parliament (27 May 1808), which was to become part of the G&SWR, was the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway, opened in 6 July 1812, built to carry coal; it was not taken over by the G&SWR until July 1899.

1850 The company dates from 1836, but was re-incorporated in this year under its present title.

1868 Manager and Engineer is William Johnstone.

1888 See Locomotive Stock June 1888.

1889 Engineer is James Adam. Supt Loco is Hugh Smellie.

1908 The company owns 444.5 miles of road, and partly owns 130 miles more.

1923 The G&SWR became a constituent of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway at the 1923 grouping of the railways.

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