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Tag: 86638

FIRST SHOTTS LINE ELECTRIC

18th March 2019 Sam Hewitt News

Freightliner locos No. 86638 and 86627 were the first electric traction to use the newly electrified line between Glasgow and Edinburgh via Shotts when they

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