Railway Seals, North British
North British Railway Company Seals, Image & Found by Beau Dandy & Friends.
Three seals from the North British Railway Company showing N.B.R. across one side and stations curved around the border of the other sides:- SIG(HTH)ILL curved down at the top and STATION curved up at the bottom on the first, ????STON ? on the second, and SOU(TH) [top] and LEITH [bottom] on the third.
Rust stains suggest they were attached by wire, probably to sacks.
From Archie Noble of the North British Railway Study Group "The NBR ones are from Sighthill, Duddingston (I'm pretty sure as it's the only station with the right number of characters and The Ds are reasonably clear) and So. Leith which were on the NBR system."
From Wikipedia:-
"The North British Railway was a Scottish railway company established in 1844, and absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway at the Grouping in 1923. In 1865 it took over the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway, the oldest in Scotland. Other amalgamations followed, altogether over 50 small lines being made part of the North British system, which ultimately totalled 2,739 miles. The main line was from Aberdeen through Dundee to Edinburgh, whence it forked to Carlisle and Berwick to meet the main English routes (the London and North Western Railway (also the Midland Railway) and the North Eastern Railway respectively). Fife was covered with a network of lines, and the pleasure resorts on the east and west coasts were also served. The company owned the Tay Bridge and its services also used the Forth Bridge, for whose construction it was responsible as part of the Route to the North in the 19th century."
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