SEARCHING FOR THE SCANDINAVIANS
Did you know that if you drive into Glasgow on the M74, you pass within a couple of hundred yards of some of the carriages damaged in the Pitlochry rail accident of 1983?
They’re buried about 20ft underground in the massive landfill site near Mount Vernon. The reason I know is because I used to work for Pickfords Heavy Haulage, based in Glasgow and I organised the delivery of the coach bodies on low-loaders.
They were wrapped in massive polythene sheets and buried in a huge trench, because engineers had discovered asbestos in them.
Rallying call
Earlier that year, I’d arranged the delivery of some other railway carriages in slightly less dramatic circumstances. It all started for me when Scottish rally driver Willie Crawford retired from the sport and was looking for something else to do. “I’d sold my car. I thought buying and running a steam engine would fill the gap,” Willie explained.
Along with engineers
