Skelbo station late 1950's

Date Added: 10 November 2015 Year: 1950 Institution Name: dnhhl Cat No: ◀ | 2015_037_14 | ▶ Picture No: 12305

Monochrome photograph showing a train at Skelbo Station in the late 1950's with the train guard attending a lady passenger with a bicycle while a gentleman waits. © www.transporttreasury.co.uk 01464-820717/ 07867-645410

Dimensions: jpeg file

6 Comments

If my memory serves me correctly, the stationmaster at Skelbo in 1950 was a Mr MacLachlan and he had a son then my age (10 years) called Lachlan MacLachlan. We often spoke to them on our way to the upper reaches of Loch Fleet (the Little Ferry) to compete with the seals and Arctic terns in capturing some succulent golden spot flounders stranded in the sandy tidal pools at low tide.

Comment left on 11 November 2015 at 20:03 by Kenneth Mackay

I remember the MacLachlans well, the son's name was Martin who served an apprenticeship as a plumber and moved to London as a young man. Comment left on 25 April 2016 at 22:47 by John Mackay

Thanks John. Of course the correct name was Martin MacLachlan. I got mixed up between Martin and a Lachlan MacLachlan that I knew in my years in Rhodesia. Comment left on 27 April 2016 at 08:40 by Kenneth Mackay

Train guard would be Davy Laird around that time Comment left on 11 May 2016 at 20:45 by Dan Murray

The locomotive is one of the Great Western designed but BR built 0-6-0PT. Both built at Swindon May 1951. 1646 came north in 1957 and 1649 July 1958. The line closed on 13th June 1960. Comment left on 29 May 2017 at 18:59 by Laurence GRANT Thank you for the information. Administrator

Was the building on the platform reduced in length at the Embo end? Earlier pictures show a longer building, but in the same location with the same sloping roof and the same doors and windows, but with more windows and another door at the Embo end? Comment left on 26 October 2023 at 17:52 by Jack Kernahan To our knowledge, the platform was not altered but yes we agree, the building is smaller in the 1950s and is very similar to the railway building moved to a field near Cambusavie. We assumed that this was the Cambusavie station building but it was perhaps moved to Skelbo at some point?
Administrator

Form Goes Here