Date: 04/07/2016

A ^replacement^ train service is being offered by a narrow gauge railway between two remote villages in southern Scotland during a road closure.
The B797 between Leadhills in South Lanarkshire and Wanlockhead in Dumfries and Galloway is shut for resurfacing.
The rail service is being run to help people from Wanlockhead to get to the doctor^s surgery in Leadhills.
It is also being offered as a ^commuter service^ for some workers at the Museum of Lead Mining in Wanlockhead.

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'Replacement' train offer as road shuts

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A "replacement" train service is offered by a narrow gauge railway between two remote villages in southern Scotland during a road closure.

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Looking over Glengonnar station on the Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway on 26 July 2014.
Location: Glengonnar
Company: Leadhills and Wanlockhead Light Railway
27/07/2014 John Yellowlees

Scene at Leadhills on a wet June day in 2006. The former Wanlockhead and Leadhills Light Railway, closed in 1939, reopened as a 2ft gauge private railway in 1988.
Location: Leadhills
Company: Leadhills and Wanlockhead Light Railway
04/06/2006 Colin Miller

Leadhills station on the Lowther Railway is built on the site of the former station on the Wanlockhead branch. Visiting O&K 0-4-0T Montalban waits to take a train up the hill in July 1994. A supply of coal is available on the platform to resupply the small bunker on the loco.
Location: Leadhills
Company: Leadhills and Wanlockhead Light Railway
/07/1994 John McIntyre

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