9 Images released on Friday 12/03/2021

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Cardross Station Crossing: 320317 in SPTE carmine & cream, with a Glasgow bound service, approaches Cardross in May 2010.

Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
John McIntyre [29/05/2010]


Cambus o' May: The edge of this map sheet shows a building coloured pink with the number 509 superimposed beside a manmade water course. This was probably the mill associated with the Ferry Inn at Cambus o May (see [[71624]]). The minutes of Board Meetings reveal that at the time when the railway was being built the contractor, K. Mathieson, seems to have bought it from the Huntly Estate; at any rate he was reimbursed to the tune of £400(!) by the A&BR Co. It is not clear when but it was evidently converted to a house and later used to accommodate the navvies working nearby. The OS Book of Reference shows that 509 was a 'House and yard' whilst 510 was a 'Garden'. When the line opened the railway company took it over and used it to house one of its Waymen (Platelayer) who paid one Guinea (21/-) per year in rent. This man not only inspected and maintained his section of track; he was also responsible for working the points at the nearby ballast pit siding. Taken from Map sheet Aberdeenshire XCII.2 https://maps.nls.uk/view/74480059 Posted by Charlie Niven and used with permission of the National Library of Scotland see maps.nls.uk/copyright.html

Aboyne and Braemar Railway
National Library of Scotland [02/03/2021]


Eddleston: Looking north towards the site of the level crossing over Old Manse Road. Eddleston on the former Peebles Railway in January 2020. The road links the village with the A7O3 off to the right. Photograph taken in light rain on 12 January 2020 from alongside the old station house on Station Road.

Peebles Railway
John Furnevel [12/01/2020]


Dunrod Loop: View north east over Dunrod Loop on the Wemyss Bay branch in August 1963. Taken from below the road bridge looking towards Greenock, with the signal box visible in the background.

Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway
G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow [11/08/1963]


Haymarket East Junction: A Bathgate service is captured at the blades of Haymarket East in June 1994. It was a lucky shot (humblebrag) from a train going the other way on the Fife lines. The now largely vanished building in the background was the Caledonian Distillery, once the largest in Scotland. It was built in 1855 on what was then the farmland of Easter Dalry.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
David Panton [20/06/1994]


Cambus: 26037 runs round a train of Molasses tanks at Cambus, bound for Menstrie, on 27 January 1991.

Stirling and Dunfermline Railway
Bill Roberton [//1991]


Stow: The 'Flying Scotsman' hauling an excursion to Tweedbank on the new Borders Railway, passing the reopened station at Stow, on a bright and sunny 15th May 2016.

Borders Railway (Network Rail)
David Bosher [15/05/2016]


Chorley Tunnel: 142032 is seen approaching the western end of Chorley Tunnel in March 2015 with a service to Manchester. On the approach to the tunnel the train will pass under the Flying Arches, see image [57669]

Bolton and Preston Railway
John McIntyre [13/03/2015]


Barton and Broughton: TPE 397004 hurries past the St. Helier footbridge in Barton, nearing its Preston destination, with a service from Glasgow on a bitterly cold 13th February 2021.

Lancaster and Preston Junction Railway
Mark Bartlett [13/02/2021]