Inverurie Locomotive Works

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Inverurie Locomotive Works was built in 1903 by the Great North of Scotland Railway in Inverurie, United Kingdom.

[edit] History

The Great North of Scotland Railway built itslocomotive construction and repair works on a 15 acre site at Inverurie 16 miles north west of Aberdeen. Only ten locomotives were built there between 1909 and 1921, but the works remained open for locomotive repair throughout both London and North Eastern Railway and British Railways ownership, finally closing in 1969.

[edit] See also

• LNER Class D40 - for details of the ten locomotives built at Inverurie.

[edit] References

• Larkin, Edgar (1992) An illustrated history of British Railway Workshops, Oxford: Oxford Publishing Co., 184 p., ISBN 0-86093-503-5.