Unknown LNER yard - herring barrels? East coast?

[lazonbytunnel]

Another unidentified location, this time part of a yard with LNER locos. Those look like herring barrels so quite possibly east coast. Any ideas welcome!

 

[36270k]

Another unidentified location, this time part of a yard with LNER locos. Those look like herring barrels so quite possibly east coast. Any ideas welcome!
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Looks like Scotland by the locos.

 

[Clarence Yard]

10166 was a Dunfermline loco from Grouping to 1928 and then a St Margarets loco until withdrawal in 1933.

 

[Rescars]

Locos look to be ex North British, so unless they strayed from their home territory, the location is presumably somewhere in Scotland. East Coast seems likely. Any suggestions from fish traffic experts?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Suppose Aberdeen must be a possibility?

 

[John Webb]

Another unidentified location, this time part of a yard with LNER locos. Those look like herring barrels so quite possibly east coast. Any ideas welcome!
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I can't imagine barrels of fish being left hanging around near what appear to be locos waiting to be put into service. More likely to be containing grease or other lubricants? (Note the drums on the staging behind the barrels.) So my guess would be a loco shed somewhere.

 

[randyrippley]

One of those wooden barrels has the end knocked out and is being used as a rubbish bin. They're all too old and damaged to hold foodstuffs. One has what might be a spile hole on the side, so could be a repurposed beer barrel. But in reality wooden barrels were the victorian version of a cardboard box and could hold anything.
Also note the steel (oil?) drums back right which suggest an engineering site/shed, and the short grounded carriage next to them


According to this page 10166 was withdrawn from St Margaret's Edinburgh in 1932

LNER Encyclopedia: The Wheatley J31 (NBR Class R) 0-6-0 Locomotives

Describes the Wheatley J31 (NBR Class R) 0-6-0 Locomotives

www.lner.info

 

[lazonbytunnel]

Thanks for all the replies. Good observations about the barrels.