Paddle Steamer Resources by
Tramscape
Firth
of Clyde,
Scotland
London
& North Eastern Railway
(1923-1947)
Railway
amalgamation in 1923 left the North British fleet in competition with
a newly combined CSP/GSWR fleet and only added two units to its
ageing fleet. With Marmion and Waverley (I), which had been withdrawn
at the end of the 1938 season, lost during World War Two
and Lucy Ashton 57 years old at the end of
hostilities, plans were made for new tonnage. A
new paddle steamer, Waverley was introduced for the 1947 season, the
last before railway nationalisation and the transfer of the vessels
to the British Transport Commission and later to its newly acquired
subsidiary, the Caledonian Steam Packet Company, the LNER's former
bitter rivals. Waverley was the last paddler and last steamship built
for the Clyde, the last paddler to remain on the Clyde. Since 1975
she has steamed for private owners, including from a re-opened
Helensburgh, the pier from which the story of railway-owned steamers
was begun by the LNER's predecessors.
Vessels transferred from
the North British
Railway
PS
Lucy Ashton
PS Dandie Dinmont (until
1928)
PS Talisman (until 1934)
PS Kenilworth (until 1937)
PS Waverley (until 1939)
PS Marmion (until lost in 1941 on wartime
duty)
New
Build
PS
Jeanie Deans (from 1931)
DEPV Talisman (from 1935)
PS Waverley (from
1946)
Vessels transferred to the
BTC : Lucy Ashton, Jeanie Deans, Talisman,
Waverley.
Bibliography
Craigendoran
Steamers
Alan Brown
Published in 1979 by Aggregate Publications, Johnstone, Renfrewshire,
Scotland
A history of the NB, LNER and the Craigendoran services of the
post-war Caledonian Steam Packet Company.
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