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    Nov 16, 2021 5 minutes

    ETHELS AT INVERNESS

    I THOROUGHLY enjoyed Gareth Bayer’s two-part look at ex-departmental locos in the Fleet History section. In the first part (September issue) reference is made to the three ‘Ethel’ units being withdrawn and taken for storage at Inverness depot for possible reactivation.

    I was in Inverness in May 1994 and actually took a photo of the three lined up in Rose Street sidings at the back of Inverness depot. They were stored along with several other withdrawn locos, 14 Class 26s and one Class 47, No. 47642.

    Apologies for the poor quality of the shot, but it was the one and only chance I had to record the locos before they were taken away shortly afterwards to MC Metals in Glasgow for scrapping.

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