68095 (NBR 42, LNER 9042 & BR 68095)

68095 at St Margarets, Edinburgh - September 1961.jpg

68095 entered traffic as NBR 42 in 1887 following being built at Cowlairs Works in Springburn, Glasgow.

It was one of the locomotives that was subsequently fitted permanently attached four wheeled wooden tender. This tender is not now fitted to the engine.

Under BR it spent almost all of its working life based at St Margarets from where it was deployed to work on Leith docks. In February 1950 it spent a short time based at Caldwell’s Paper Mills at Inverkeithing in Fife.

When it was withdrawn from service in December 1962 it was purchased by Jim Morris whilst it was in McWilliam’s Shettleston scrapyard and was displayed at his Lytham Transport Museum.

This museum closed in 1992 and the locomotive was purchased by the Scottish Railway Preservation Society (SRPS) with the aid of a grant from the National Fund for Acquisitions.

It has remained on static display at Bo’ness since then. There are no plans to restore it to steam.

Home BaseCurrent StatusOwner
Bo’ness & Kinneil RailwayOn static displayScottish Railway Preservation Society
68095 on shed at St Margarets in Edinburgh - June 1960.jpg
68095 on shed at St Margarets in Edinburgh – June 1960
68095 at St Margarets, Edinburgh - September 1961.jpg
68095 at St Margarets shed in Edinburgh – September 1961
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68095 on St Margarets shed in Edinburgh after being withdrawn in December 1962 – July 1963
68095 in store at Bathgate – March 1964
68095 inside the shed on the Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway – September 1998
68095 in the museum at Bo’ness- 1999
68095 at Bo’ness on the Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway – July 2009
68095 and Neilson & Co 2203 inside the Museum of Scottish Railways at Bo’ness – May 2017
68095 Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway - July 2018.jpg
68095 at the Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway – July 2018

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