PQR - Quarry Station

Stirling Hill Quarry Station. Date not known.

A group of convicts (ie those with prison sentences that included "hard labour") about to board the train that will return them to Peterhead Prison - with such short shadows, probably for their mid-day meal - just over two and a half miles away. In the foreground is a train on tipper waggons, loaded with the granite for further processing in the Admiralty Yard, next to the prison.