Date: 01/05/2010

An exhibition of photographs entitled 'Wemyss Bay - Beyond the End of the Line' was opened on 1 May by Cllr Innes Nelson in the Friends of Wemyss Bay Station's gallery. The exhibition willbeon displayMondays - Saturdays, 9.30am - 4.30pm until Saturday 12 June. Admission is free. Photographed in 1996-8 for a larger project that included two other locations, Saltburn and Holyhead, (also created by the railways), the exhibition is a personal exploration of the village by Chris Hogg and Lynn Patrick, who, for their day jobs, work as photographers at the National Railway Museum, York. Wemyss Bay was put on the map with the arrival of the railway in 1865. The exhibition shows Wemyss Bay with its station and pier at the close of the 20th century. It may be over a decade since the photographs were taken, but their impact is just as strong. They show how soon the recent past becomes history - things that once were so familiar are now gone and lost forever, houses have been demolished and new ones built, and the freedom to wander on the pier to watch the arrival and departure of the ferries now a thing of the past. This exhibition not only provokes the memory, it excites the eye by turning the ordinary into the extraordinary.

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Wemyss Bay exhibition - 'Beyond the End of the Line'. The exhibition catalogue.
Location: Wemyss Bay
Company: Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway
01/05/2010 First ScotRail

'Beyond the end of the line' exhibition, Wemyss Bay. Nancy Cameron inviting Innes Nelson to declare the exhibition open, with creators Chris Hogg and Lynn Patrick standing alongside.
Location: Wemyss Bay
Company: Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway
01/05/2010 First ScotRail

The elegant curved walkway linking train and ferry services at Wemyss Bay, seen here in April 2010.
Location: Wemyss Bay
Company: Greenock and Wemyss Bay Railway
02/04/2010 Veronica Clibbery