The Llangollen Railway will take on the heavy general overhaul of Locomotive Class D49 'Shire' No.246 'Morayshire' (BR No.62712) which departed from The Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway 28/09/2016 on a lowloader transported by Reid Freight Services Ltd to the Llangollen Railway .We hope to have her back at Bo'ness sometime in 2018 .
The Museum of Scottish Railways are pleased to welcome to Bo'ness on a loan agreement from the National Railway Museum the arrival of Electric locomotive, British Railways, Class 84 BoBo No. 84001, built by North British Locomotive Company in1960.This iconic electric loco is now on display in our Museum which is open daily until the 30th October 2016.

British Railways electric locomotive BoBo Class 84 North British Locomotive Company
The British Rail Class 84 Electric Locomotive was a BoBo configuration locomotive built in 1960 by the North British Locomotive Company to a GEC design, as part of the prototyping and evaluation programme for the West Coast Main Line.

Technical Problems
Mercuryarc rectifiers caused technical problems for both Class 83 and Class 84, and all ten Class 84s were taken out of service in 1967, refitted and returned to active duty on the West Coast in the early 1970s as its capacity increased.

Durability
Class 84 proved less durable than its predecessor and was gradually withdrawn between 1977 and 1980. Class 84 84001 was subsequently preserved.4, No 84001, 1960

440 LNER Class D49 'Shire' No.246 'Morayshire'
On loan from National Museums Scotland. Operational.
LNER apple green livery.
Built 1928, LNER Darlington. (BR No.62712)

From the 1880s, the majority of Scottish express trains were hauled by tender locomotives with a fourwheeled bogie leading four driving wheels. By the time Britain's railways were reorganised into four large groups in 1923, many of these engines were old, and Nigel Gresley, as Locomotive Superintendent of the LNER, started looking at the provision of a suitable express passenger engine for intermediate duties in the North Eastern and Scottish areas. At the end of 1925 he gave his design to the Locomotive Works at Darlington, and the first of the new class of 440s emerged in October 1927. From then until February 1935 a total of 76 engines were completed. 'Morayshire' was outshopped in February 1928.

The new engines had to be sufficiently powerful to match the big North British Railway Atlantic (442) locomotives on the East Coast Main Line and on the Waverley route. To achieve adequate power, they had three cylinders. The centre cylinder valves were driven by Gresley derived motion. Morayshire has an unusual feature in Woodward connecting rods.

No.246 was based variously at Dundee, Perth, Haymarket and St Margaret's. Withdrawn as the last remaining member of her class in July 1961, she was moved to Slateford Laundry in Edinburgh for use as a stationary boiler, and in January 1962 was put into store at Dalry Road Shed, Edinburgh.

In 1962 Ian Fraser, who had worked on this class of engine at Darlington, had become interested in the fate of 'Morayshire' and successfully negotiated purchase from BR. After a repaint at Inverurie Works, 'Morayshire' was officially handed over to the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh. In 1974 the Museum loaned the locomotive to the SRPS who returned it to steam just in time to attend the 150th Anniversary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway in August 1975. Used on main line railtours thereafter, the locomotive is now operational on the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway.


060ST National Coal Board Area 7 (East Fife) No.19

Built 1954, Hunslet Engine Co., Leeds. Austerity design. Works No.3818.

The locomotive was supplied new to the NCB Area 7 (East Fife) at the Michael Colliery. It was overhaued at the Central Workshops, Dysart, in 1965, then returned to the Michael. After the disaster there, it was transferred to Wellesley Coal Preparation Plant where it remained until 1971, when it made its final move in NCB service to Comrie Colliery.

This is a standard World War Two austerity design of locomotive.

In a previous spell of traffic duty at Bo'ness, this locomotive carried a spurious British Railways livery and the number 68019.