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1904Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway: Newton to Cathcart and Clarkston West Junction opened for goods.
1958Merthyr Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway: Abergavenny Brecon Road closed.
1958Merthyr Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway: Closed to passengers.
1958London and North Western Railway South Wales: Closed to passengers.
1964Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway: Queen Street High Level Goods closed.

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A cold winters night in January 1969 fails to deter protestors at Newcastleton from blocking the level crossing gates and thus the passage of the last scheduled train over the Waverley route, the 21.55 Waverley - St Pancras sleeper. David Steele MP, one of the passengers on the train, became a one-man arbitration service that night and was primarily responsible for Peak no 60 <I>Lytham St Annes</I> eventually being able to take the train forward over the crossing and continue its belated journey south. A cold winters night in January 1969 fails to deter protestors at Newcastleton from blocking the level crossing gates and thus the passage of the last scheduled train over the Waverley route, the 21.55 Waverley - St Pancras sleeper. David Steele MP, one of the passengers on the train, became a one-man arbitration service that night and was primarily responsible for Peak no 60 Lytham St Annes eventually being able to take the train forward over the crossing and continue its belated journey south.

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A DMU prepares to leave Callander for Larbert circa 1962, some three years before final closure.
Callander
Colin Miller
47 786 <I>Roy Castle</I> propels sleeper stock into platform 4 at Aberdeen in October 1998.
Aberdeen
David Panton
Gradient profiles on the wall of Aviemore signal box. Photographed on 2 April 1980.
Aviemore
Peter Todd
The evocative smell of a steam shed... K1 62005 receives attention inside Grosmont shed on the NYMR on 3 April 2008.
Grosmont
John Furnevel
The Doon Viaduct at Alloway on the former Maidens and Dunure Light Railway, photographed on 3rd January 2009.
Alloway
Colin Miller
The former Burton Salmon Junction, North Yorkshire, in August 1980, meeting point of the lines from the Pontefract and Castleford directions. Approaching with a train on the latter is <I>Peak</I> 45060 <I>Lytham St Annes</I>, the locomotive that took the last scheduled passenger train over the Waverley Route 11 years earlier.
Burton Salmon Junction
Peter Todd
Guild Street yard, Aberdeen circa 1958. McIntosh 3F 0-6-0T no 56240, built at St Rollox Works in 1898, takes a break from shunting duties. The locomotive was eventually withdrawn from 61B Ferryhill shed in July 1961 and cut up at Inverurie works a short time later. [Thanks to John McIntyre]
Aberdeen
Robin Barbour Collection
Guild Street yard, Aberdeen in the early 1970s. BR class 08 no D3877 undertakes the shunting duties as class 47 no 1708 prepares to move a southbound freight out of the yard.
Aberdeen
John McIntyre
BR Standard class 9F no 92024, one of a trio of rebuilt ex-Crosti boilered locomotives transferred to Carlisle for a period in the mid 1960s, stands outside 12A Kingmoor shed circa 1965.
Carlisle Kingmoor
Robin Barbour Collection
BR Standard class 9F no 92023, one of the <I>experimental</I> batch of 10 within the class originally built with Crosti boiler and pre-heater, before eventually being rebuilt as conventional steam locomotives. No 92023 is seen here taking a freight under the road bridge at Blackrigg, north east of the village of Rockcliffe, on the WCML in north Cumbria around 1965. The locomotive was withdrawn by BR in November 1967 and cut up at Campbells, Airdrie, approximately 5 months later. [Thanks to Mike Gibb]
Rockcliffe
Robin Barbour Collection
40184 with a southbound train approaching Aviemore on 1 August 1980.
Aviemore
Peter Todd
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December 2008 WCML 10-year upgrade project completed.
November 2008 Scottish Coal wins contract to part-supply Longannet PS
Clearance work commences on Airdrie - Bathgate Rail Link
October 2008 Doubling of Bathgate branch completed
September 2008 First train appears in new ScotRail livery

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Name that location! Clues: Class08: eastbound: hauling 5 wagons of sand: line on left closed in 1990s: (It formed the west side of a triangular set of junctions): Train has just passed through a closed station in the mist: Its not in Scotland or Wales: Photograph taken in April 1979:

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