Lucy Ashton – 29th May 1948

   
LUCY ASHTON
The Club’s first full charter
Craigendoran, Helensburgh, cruise to Gareloch.
Gourock, Dunoon, Kirn, cruise to Holy Loch
and via Inverkip, Rothesay, cruise to Loch Striven,
Rothesay, Dunoon, Kirn,  Gourock, Craigendoran,
Helensburgh.

This charter was unusual insofar as the Club also arranged to charter a train, in conjunction with the steamer charter, with the Locomotive “Lucy Ashton” as the motive power – the Club’s only train charter
 

 
The locomotive 62680 “Lucy Ashton”
which hauled the Club’s only charter train
on 29th May 1948 from
Glasgow Queen Street to Craigendoran
Seen here awaiting her fate at Bargeddie scrapyard in early 60’s
This photograph is attributed 
to Ben Brooksbank and is used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license
 
 
 
 Photographs:  Andrew Clark collection
       
Lucy Ashton at Craigendoran   Lucy Ashton at Gourock Lucy Ashton at Rothesay  Lucy Ashton at Rothesay