North British Locomotive Company facts for kids

Builder's plate from a North British locomotive

The North British Locomotive Company (NBL) was created in 1903 through the merger of three Scottish locomotive manufacturing companies. They were Sharp, Stewart and Company and Neilson, Reid and Company and Dübs and Company. This created the largest locomotive manufacturing company in Europe at the time.

The company closed in 1962.

Images for kids

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  NBL works plate on LNER B1 No. 1264 (NBL 26165 of 1947). The diamond shaped plate was fitted to locomotives built at the company's Queen's Park Works in Polmadie, a continuation of a tradition started by Dübs and Company.

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  Former headquarters of NBL in Springburn, Glasgow. During World War I the building was temporarily converted into a hospital by the British Red Cross. It was latterly the campus of North Glasgow College.

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  Umgeni Steam Railway 1486 "Maureen"

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  North British Class 22, D6343 (NBL 27916 of 1962), with Hymek D7072 at Old Oak Common, 1965.

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  SAR 4E No. E238 in Cape Town, 1966

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  Preserved North British AL4 / Class 84 84001, ex-E3036, (NBL 27793 of 1960) on display at Crewe Works in 2005.