Locomotives and Clan Cameron
It does seem most unusual but the Cameron=
name
crops up in the least expected places. There was a class of locomotive call=
ed
the Clan Class. I am merely reporting this because as a youngster living in=
the
Built in 1952, the last ones were
scrapped by 1965. There were some Highland Railway "Clans" too -
rather fine-looking 4-6-0s. Clan Cameron was HR No.57 - the last of the 8, buil=
t in
1922, and first to be scrapped in 1943. They were "non-standard" =
on
the LMS, and not a patch on a Black 5.
"Cameron of Lochiel" was one of a small group of 2-6-0s built by
Gresley specifically for the LNER West Highland line. 61995 "Cameron of
Lochiel" was scrapped in the early 60s, but 61994 "The Great
Marquess" still exists - it has been living in Bridgnorth for many yea=
rs,
but it's going back to
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