Royal Deeside Railway receives an ex-Aberdeen Gasworks shunter
THE Bon Accord Locomotive Society, owner of former Aberdeen Gasworks Barclay 0-4-0ST Bon Accord at the Royal Deeside Railway, now has another loco from the same works. This is Motor Rail 5763 of 1957, acquired from its longterm home on the Strathspey Railway. The‘Simplex’4wDM entered preservation in 1973 when transferred from British Gas Corporation’s Aberdeen Works, where it was No. 1D. It moved there in 1964 from Inchgreen Gasworks, Greenock, where delivered new and numbered 638.