Date: 20/08/2012

An investigation has been launched into a fire which destroyed a large hay shed at a farm next to a village school in south west Scotland. Fire crews spent the night tackling the blaze which was discovered near Moniaive Primary School at about 17:00 on Sunday. Police said they keen to trace a group of youths seen in the area. No-one was injured, but about 50 tonnes of hay and a number of farm vehicles were destroyed. The total damage was estimated to be worth more than £32,000. Residents said the blaze had effectively destroyed a slice of local history. The building was once used as a goods shed for the former Cairn Valley Railway. [From Andrew Wilson]

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An investigation is underway after fire in a barn at a farm near a village primary school in south west Scotland.

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Moniaive Trip. Entering Moniaive station. C.R. 0.6.0 57378.
Location: Moniaive
Company: Cairn Valley Light Railway (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
18/04/1949 G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow

Entrance to Moniaive station, terminus of the Cairn Valley Railway, in January 2006. The station building stands alongside the modified goods shed 57 years after the line was closed completely by BR.
Location: Moniaive
Company: Cairn Valley Light Railway (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
31/01/2006 John Furnevel

The old station building at Moniaive continues its slow, inexorable decline, seen here standing in the rain on 15 February 2010, having handled its last passenger in May 1943.
Location: Moniaive
Company: Cairn Valley Light Railway (Glasgow and South Western Railway)
15/02/2010 Colin Miller