Join Dr. Kenneth Baxter from the Archives Team in another video looking at something from our collections. In this short video, Kenneth looks at some photos of the University of Dundee – but it’s not the University of Dundee that you might be expecting. It is in fact the British Railway’s Locomotive 47 550 University of Dundee. Find out all about how this locomotive came to be named University of Dundee in 1982 in the video below:
The University Archives: 1982 Locomotive (Video)
12 August 2020
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