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  • From the archive: Glasgow museum receives one of Britain’s last fireless steam locomotives

    From the archive: Glasgow museum receives one of Britain’s last fireless steam locomotives

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    From the August 1969 issue of The Railway Magazine, A. Kempsell reported on the preservation of a fireless steam locomotive formerly used at Dalmarnock Power Station. The locomotive had been presented to Glasgow’s Museum of Transport by the South of Scotland Electricity Board. A permanent home in Glasgow ONE of the last fireless steam locomotives…

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