The photograph shows the A3 Pacific locomotive No. 2745 4-6-2 'Captain Cuttle' entering Galashiels station during the early 1930s. On the left is the Abbotsford Hotel, with Brownlee's Garage behind.
Barely visible 'above' the roof of the garage is the 'Coffee-Pot' Galashiels-Selkirk train, waiting for the main line to clear before starting its run down into the station. The Waverley route did not see Pacifics until Knight of Thistle worked a special test train on March 20, 1927, followed by Shotover doing the same the following February.
Captain Cuttle was the first Pacific to be allocated new to Carlisle for the Waverley route, this occurring in October, 1928.
Last week's photograph of Bowden green sparked some interest and we were informed that the three youngsters captured by the camera were Jim Brown, Ronnie Borthwick and Joe Swinton.
The car pictured belonged to Colonel Hannay who lived in the white house in the background. The photo was taken in either 1952 or 1953.