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2 unusual facts about NBR 224 and 420 Classes


NBR 224 and 420 Classes

No. 224 was used in Fife, which in the days before the construction of the Forth Bridge, was an isolated part of the NBR system.

Until the opening of the Forth Bridge in 1890, passengers from Edinburgh to Dundee would cross the Firth of Forth by a ferry from Granton which connected with trains at Burntisland.



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