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Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

While my colleagues were busy playing crazy golf, I became distracted by this rope hauled people carrier - one of two on site. As you can see, it has ...
Ken Strachan 14/06/2018
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The interior of Billingshurst box, now located in Amberley museum. See image 65955. ...
Ken Strachan 30/03/2018
Time for bed, said Zebedee. The Amberley museum Hunslet loco' and open coaches have come off the main line around the museum, and are about to be ...
Ken Strachan 30/03/2018
The footpath from the station to the Museum is laid on the bed of the siding which connected the former quarry with the main line. View looks towards ...
Ken Strachan 30/03/2018
A steam shunter Jim - but not as we know it. This contraption is an Irish gauge vehicle which was propelled by putting the narrow gauge Guinness ...
Ken Strachan 30/03/2018
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A white hind, possibly suffering from leucism, was seen at Coire Ba during the reign of King James the VI and I. Such stags feature in Celtic mythology and Arthurian legend and the king requested the animal be captured and brought to him. John Scandoner sent to capture the beast, in difficult weather, saw the animal in early 1622 but was unable to capture it for the king.
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More than 140 years old, Lewin No.18, dating from 1877, is hauling a goods train at Beamish Open Air Museum on 19th June 2018. This was designed by ...
David Bosher 19/06/2018
The replica of 'Puffing Billy' is Stephenson gauge, rather than the original five feet, to allow it to run on other preserved lines. It is seen here ...
Ken Strachan 27/07/2021
It's always nice to see an old friend unexpectedly. Just after I took this picture, 'Peter Pan' required attention; but the driver cheered up when I ...
Ken Strachan 10/04/2022
Sheffield Corporation No.264 at Beamish Open Air Museum on 17th June 2018. This was one of 24 sleek balcony cars delivered to Sheffield by the United ...
David Bosher 17/06/2018
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Kirkcaldy Model Engineering Society has operated a dual gauge (5in and 7 1/4in) railway in the town's Beveridge Park since 1991, with services every ...
Bill Roberton 08/09/2013
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You can see from this picture that Big Pit Halt is readily visible from the Big Pit mining museum. The branch and halt were built to advertise the ...
Ken Strachan 19/08/2017
'JESSIE,' a Hunslet 0-6-0ST No. 1837 of 1937, running into the Big Pit Mining Museum station on the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway on 5th May 2019. ...
Peter Todd 05/05/2019
J94 71515 returning from Big Pit to Furnace Sidings, still under full power, on 13 September 2014. ...
Peter Todd 13/09/2014
Rosyth No 1 heading along the branch towards the Big Pit on 13 September 2014. ...
Peter Todd 13/09/2014
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Looking west at the Castlecary Roman Fort. ...
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Some years ago, maintenance workers discovered that the base of one of the towers of the Clifton Suspension Bridge was hollow. Exploration (requiring ...
John Thorn 13/04/2017
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The narrow gauge railway in the grounds of Colzium House. ...
Rod Crawford 08/04/2018
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Denver & Rio Grande No.483 being serviced on the House of Ross Miniature Railway in 1989.
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Bill Roberton //1989
The substantial engine shed and turntable of the House of Ross Miniature Railway in 1989. Note the elevated servicing road on the right hand side of ...
Bill Roberton //1989
Diesel Rio Grande No.1982 in passenger service on the miniature railway at the House of Ross, Comrie, in 1989.
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Bill Roberton //1989
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A Severn-Lamb steam outline 2-8-0DH works the miniature railway in Craigtoun Country Park near St. Andrews. This forms a 600yd circuit around the ...
Mark Bartlett 24/08/2018
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This is traditionally believed to be the site of a battle of 1306 between Robert the Bruce and MacDougal of Lorn in Strathfillan, fleeing following the defeat of the Bruce at the Battle of Methven by English forces.
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A Red Wheel being unveiled at The Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank in Dumbarton, the oldest test tank in the World, with the unveiling being performed ...
Ewan Crawford 22/03/2023
A view down the length of the testing tank at the Denny Tank ...
Ewan Crawford 13/10/2022
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Between the former Holywood station (to the south) and the former Auldgirth station (to the north) and on the west bank of the River Nith is Ellisland Farm , the farm built by Robert Burns where he farmed and was inspired by the setting. The farm is now a museum. The nearest station is at Dumfries, around six miles to the south.
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This unique rotating boat lift connects the Forth and Clyde Canal and Union Canal.
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Trip boat about to negotiate the Falkirk Wheel on 17th August 2021. ...
David Bosher 17/08/2021
Inside a Falkirk Wheel trip boat on the afternoon of 17th August 2021. ...
David Bosher 17/08/2021
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View of Footplate off 3007 amd tender 3079 (Built Springburn 1947-48) ...
Colin Harkins 26/08/2007
The very cute miniature railway in George Square, part of Glasgow's Christmas festivities 2011 ...
Beth Crawford 19/12/2011
Full View of Loco 3007 amd tender 3079 ...
Colin Harkins 26/08/2007
Opposite side of Loco. It will go through extensive conservation before going on display at the new Glasgow Riverside Museum in 2010 ...
Colin Harkins 26/08/2007
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Glenarn Gardens are located in the east of Rhu. VisitScotland - Glenarn Gardens
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This was the residence of the Earls of Glencairn in Dumbarton Later it was used by the Dukes of Argyll.
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This was the shepherd's cottage at Gorton where, in 1889, Charles Forman, James Bulloch, J.E. Harrison, John Bett, Major Martin and N.B. McKenzie were to take shelter after the party walking the route of the prospective West Highland Railway got into difficulties. The cottage is now a bothy. The rising ground to the right is Meall a Ghortain.
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The shepherd's cottage at Gorton where, in 1889, Charles Forman, James Bulloch, J.E. Harrison, John Bett, Major Martin and N.B. McKenzie were to take ...
Ewan Crawford //1994
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This house was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret for Walter Blackie, of the publishers Blackie and Sons.
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This high two arch masonry viaduct carried one of General Wade's Military Roads over the River Spean, some 1.5 miles downstream of Spean Bridge. The bridge crosses a gorge.
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Recently transferred from East Midland Trains, 156403 still has smart new vinyls and paintwork as it climbs to the summit at Hoghton with a Colne to ...
Mark Bartlett 14/08/2023
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The genuine one horsepower Chloe with car no 29 on the Douglas Horse Tramway in July 1996. Compare with 30994. ...
John McIntyre /7/1996
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These are two brightly painted rocks on the western side of Buttock Point, the northern end of the island of Bute. The two rocks are said to resemble two figures, clearly visible from the Kyles of Bute.
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K1 2-6-0 2005 climbs out of Monessie Gorge with 'The Lochaber' railtour on 14 November 1987.
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Bill Roberton 14/11/1987
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0-6-0T steam outline loco Edward Milner hauls a train around Pavillion Gardens, Buxton watched by the ducks across the lake on 13 September 2015. ...
John McIntyre 13/09/2015
The station in the Pavilion Gardens at Buxton on 1 April 2013 with steam outline 0-6-0 locomotive Edward Milner bringing the last train of the ...
John McIntyre 01/04/2013
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Peter Pan Moat Brae House is about a third of a mile to the west of Dumfries station.
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No.7 Prestongrange (Grant Ritchie 536 of 1914) giving cab rides at Prestongrange Mining Museum in the late 1970s.
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A former ECML footbridge, presumably displaced by electrification, lying in dismantled at Prestongrange Museum. ...
John Yellowlees 30/06/2020
Narrow gauge 9 ton capacity 'drop-bottom' mine cars on display at Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum, East Lothian, in 2005. These are the ...
John Furnevel 07/07/2005
'Please mind your fingers...' Part of the mechanism of the Whitaker Brothers steam crane on display in the yard at Prestongrange Industrial ...
John Furnevel 19/09/2012
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A floral clock in Princes Street Gardens to celebrate the centenary of Flying Scotsman. ...
John Yellowlees 15/08/2023
The Edinburgh Christmas Market narrow gauge railway features a level crossing complete with hand bell and manually operated gates-very Victorian. ...
Charlie Niven 24/11/2019
In Princes Street Gardens East a light railway has been laid to serve Santa's Train Station. A steam-outline loco heads up a train on 27 December. ...
Bill Roberton 27/12/2016
A steam-outline locomotive draws its train round the narrow gauge circuit of the Christmas Fair in Princes Street Gardens East on 28th November 2017. ...
Bill Roberton 28/11/2017
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This large rock was used as a makeshift outdoor church. Due to the low population immediately nearby there was no church, the minister from Arrochar offering to preach if a pulpit and vestry could be arranged. A hollowed out chamber in the rock, fitted with a door, formed the vestry and pulpit which faced out over the people sat outside with Loch Lomond behind them. The rock is on the east side of ...

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This museum is in the west of Glasgow not far from Partick station.
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This Class 397 mock up EMU cab is an exhibit in the Riverside Museum but the Class 380 mock up has been removed.
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John Yellowlees 24/06/2021
Original Glasgow Subway car (1896-1977), on display in the Riverside Museum on 18th May 2016. ...
David Bosher 18/05/2016
Glasgow Corporation experimental single-decker Pullman tramcar no. 1089, dating from 1926, generally known as 'Baillie Burt's Car' on display in the ...
David Bosher 18/05/2016
Sou'West on top at the Riverside Museum. The footplate of Caledonian Single No 123 is below. ...
John Yellowlees 15/04/2016
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The Aberdeen MRC layout 'City of Tiers' seen at Model Rail, Glasgow. ...
John Yellowlees 23/02/2019
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A series of trenches dug by soldiers in 1763 can be seen on the west side of the line between the former Gorton [WHR] station and Abhainn Duibhe Viaduct, to the north.
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A series of trenches to drain land were dug by soldiers in 1763 on the forfeited Rannoch Moor estate. The trenches can be seen from the train and ...
Ewan Crawford //1997
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This cottage, the Grade II listed National Trust , was located by the Wylam Waggonway, running from Wylam Colliery to the River Tyne on the south side of the cottage. George Stephenson was born here in 1781 and grew up by the waggonway.
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The trackbed of the 1748 Wylam Waggonway looking east towards Newcastle on 8 May 2006. Behind the trees on the right is the River Tyne, while on the ...
John Furnevel 08/05/2006
View west by Stephenson's Cottage, looking to Wylam. ...
Ewan Crawford 09/11/2003
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This is a folly above the Black Linn Falls of the River Braan. The folly was originally built by John Murray, the 3rd Duke of Atholl, in 1758. It was rebuilt grandly as a hall of mirrors reflecting the falls in 1783 as a memorial to the blind bard Ossian. The folly is in the care of the National Trust for Scotland. A pleasant woodland walk approaches the site from a car park and the echo ...

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Prince Charles Edward Stuart left Scotland from the shore of Loch nan Uamh in 1746 after the unsuccessful Jacobite uprising. The The Prince's Cairn was built in 1956 by the 1745 Association. 1745 Association
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The Battle of Killiecrankie, 1689, took place north of the former station and on the north/east side of the line. A Jacobite army under John Graham, Viscount Dundee, defeated General Hugh Mackay's army, fighting for William of Orange. Graham died in the battle and the Jacobite army was itself later defeated itself at Dunkeld.
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The signalbox and gates at Tram Inn in August 1968. ...
Doug Nicholls /08/1968
The former Tram Inn station building (now used as part of Mill Garage) and signal box on the ex-GWR line between Hereford and Abergavenny.
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John McIntyre 18/11/2008
Looking east across the level crossing at Tram Inn on 18 November 2008, with the station and signal box on the left and the old Tram Inn itself ...
John McIntyre 18/11/2008
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China clay is sticky stuff, so tilting the load bed is probably quite a good way to persuade it to leave the wagon as required. One of many exhibits ...
Ken Strachan 28/11/2014
A group of Branch Line Society members inspecting a traditional china clay 'hood' at Wheal Martyn museum, St Austell, on 28 November 2014. The ...
Ken Strachan 28/11/2014
Oh dear, the rats have been at the timbers again. A collection of wheels for narrow gauge wagons see image 50104 displayed informally at Wheal ...
Ken Strachan 28/11/2014
Smaller than the average box - it may be surrounded by distinctly out-of-period accessories, but this box is a rare relic of the Lee Moor Tramway. ...
Ken Strachan 28/11/2014
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