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    Scottish classics ‘won’t be trapped forever’

    Nov 19, 2019 4 minutes
    By Hugh Dougherty
    HUGH DOUGHERTY

    THE man in charge of moving 4000 exhibits from Glasgow Museum of Transport to the collection’s new building at the city’s Yorkhill Quay has promised that the five historic Scottish main line locomotives currently on display and bound for the new venue, won’t be trapped forever as static exhibits.

    Project manager Lawrence Fitzgerald, also manager of the present museum at Kelvin Hall, has revealed that the museum is currently negotiating to bring a South African Railways 15F 4-8-2 steam locomotive, built at the North British Locomotive Company’s Queen’s Park Works in 1945, back to its native city as a star exhibit in the new museum, which is due to open

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