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From NBR pre-grouping railway luggage labels (3)
![North British Railway, Reid designed 'H' class atlantic no. 868 <i>Aberdonian</i> was the prototype entering NBR service in 1906. The LNER later classified the class as 'C11' and all survived into the 1930's with LNER 9868 being the second to be withdrawn in 1933. With no accompanying documentation (or even a sleeve) the location was a mystery but we now have chapter and verse from an enquiry on the LNER Encyclopedia web forum:<br>
<i>"This shot is at Newtonhill, on the Caledonian main line south of Aberdeen. The signals and the A-frame telegraph pole are of Caledonian appearance. Also, if you refer to Jim Summers' 'Signalling the Caledonian Railway', you will find at page 92 a shot of Newtonhills viewed in the opposite direction and showing the wrong road signal in exactly the right position. So I think this is an NBR Aberdeen-Edinburgh express exercising running powers over the Caledonian line north of Kinnaber Jc."</i><br>
[E. A. Gurney-Smith / <i>Mike Morant collection</i>]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Trains-Railways-British-Isles/Scottish-and-BRSc/Scotland-NBR-1/i-wBRgt7C/0/bab488ba/Ti/Sc_NBR_868-Ti.jpg)
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