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I remember around 1968/69 my mates and I would spend a lot of time near the top of the infamous Cowlairs 1in 42 2 mile incline out of Glasgow Queen Street station watching the trains going up the slope [some struggling] The class 24, 25,26 and 27's would pull 5 or 6 coaches quite easily in push pull or with a another 27 as banker but with difficulty on their own. The class 37 and later 47 classes did it without difficulty. The DMU's strugggled something although the 101's seemed to be a little bit better. They would tackle the incline at not much more than walking place with their engines sounding like they were going to blow up and i thought they weren't going to make it to the top. They always did and when they did the engine would go silent for a half a second then the unit would head on at normal speed.
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