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Community projects across Scotland's Railway have benefited from almost £4million of investment in recent years. Among those to receive a funding boost was Stow Station House on the Borders Railway. The new Shibumi Karate Club Training Station at Saltcoats also benefited from funding.
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Discover the traces of Merseyside's industrial past with a new walking app, partly made by former miners determined the past should not be forgotten. The app currently contains 21 walks, most in Scotland, such as the Brucefield Colliery at Clackmannan, Newtongrange (home of the National Mining Museum Scotland), and no fewer than three Alloa Waggonway walks. Jim plans to add guided walks to Sutton Manors neighbouring collieries at Bold and Clock Face and to add more nature notes to all the walks.
(Permalink) Alloa Waggonway Bold Colliery Brucefield Colliery Clackmannan Clock Face Colliery National Mining Museum Scotland Newtongrange Runcorn Gap St Helens Sutton Manor  Drysdale Street Tunnel: The stone steps that now provide pedestrian access between the old route of the Alloa Waggonway and the busy Drysdale Street. View is north towards the station Hotel on 3 July 2008, with Moncrieff Un ...  Bedford Place Tunnel: The tunnel under Bedford Place, Alloa, on the route used by the Alloa Waggonway on its journey to the Forth. Photographed looking south in March 2008 along what is now part of a walkway through the ce ... |
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A drone being used to survey a railway track plummeted 230ft into the back garden of a Midlothian home when one of its propellers detached while in flight.
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When the Queen officially opened the Borders Railway on September 9, 2015, it was widely hoped that the new line would transform Midlothian. But five years on has it done so?
(Permalink) Borders Railway Eskbank Fifth Anniversary Gorebridge Newtongrange Re-opening Shawfair  Gorebridge: ScotRail DMU 170401, forming the 0847 Tweedbank - Edinburgh, restarts from Gorebridge on Sunday 12 July 2020. The train is about to pass below the bridge carrying Station Road.  Shawfair: The well gritted, salted and deserted platforms of Shawfair station, looking north on a cold and frosty morning in February 2019. The train just arriving at platform 2 is the 1011 (Sunday) Edinburgh W ...  Eskbank: ScotRail 158703 forming the Sunday morning 1045 Tweedbank - Edinburgh Waverley service, calls at Eskbank on 24 November 2016. The surviving platforms of the original Eskbank station are just visible o ... |
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