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10/07/2023 Scores of locals back new bid to turn Cults Railway Station into cafe and Haddo Estate mansion being modernised [Press and Journal] Meanwhile, the King's interior designer wants to extend his Ballater mansion to provide more self-catering accommodation. (Permalink) Cults Deeside Line Deeside Railway Planning Cults: Cults station now has a cafe just off the former platform, in the guise of a container. I did not get the chance to sample the fare despite the good weather. I think they mean the Up platform ... Charlie Niven 25/03/2022 Cults: Cults Station building dating from 1894 replaced the original structure from 1853 (which had been moved on a train from its original location a few hundred yards east in 1855). It has the typical pien ... Charlie Niven 20/06/2016 Press and Journal Boxcar Cults Cults
22/08/2022 Dangerous 190-year-old stonework forces developers to tweak Newtyle railway sheds housing plan [The Courier] The deteriorating state of some of Scotland's oldest railway buildings have forced developers to tweak plans for housing there. (Permalink) Dundee and Newtyle Railway Newtyle Newtyle [1st] Planning Newtyle [1st]: The Dundee end of the older Newtyle station in 1998 looking north. The approach via the [[Hatton incline]] is behind the camera. Ewan Crawford //1998 Newtyle [1st]: North end of the original 1831 station at Newtyle in July 2007. View is west from Bulb Farm Road. John Furnevel 12/07/2007 The Courier
23/09/2021 Cumbria Council consult public over Carlisle station plans [News and Star] Local residents and businesses are being given the opportunity to have their say on new plans for Carlisle Railway Station. (Permalink) Carlisle Planning News and Star
09/07/2021 Historic Scots bridges at risk of infilling after council 'planning blunder' [New Civil Engineer] Campaigners have called on Dumfries & Galloway Council to take urgent action after a 'perverse decision' by planners has threatened to make the proposed reopening of a Scottish railway more difficult and costly. In April last year, Highways England told the local authority of its intention to infill a disused bridge at Lochanhead, which spans the former Dumfries-Stranraer line. (Permalink) Cultural vandalism Dumfries and Galloway Council Highways England Lochanhead Planning Lochanhead: Looking west over the former Lochanhead station. Ewan Crawford // New Civil Engineer
06/05/2021 Barrier still in place to new homes development in Aviemore woodland [Strathspey and Badenoch Herald] Signs of work progressing at Dalfaber Woods but railway level-crossing funding not yet resolved. (Permalink) Aviemore Dalfaber Level Crossing Planning Strathspey and Badenoch Herald
05/05/2021 Clanmil surprised at rail line dismay as flats get go ahead following appeal [Derry Journal] The social housing body behinds a new flats complex along a former railway line said they are surprised by concerns raised by Into The West after a successful appeal against a decision not to grant planning permission for it. (Permalink) Derry Into the West Londonderry Planning Strabane Derry Journal
08/04/2021 Planning go-ahead for housing conversion of historic Newtyle railway buildings [Evening Telegraph] Historic Angus railway sheds are to be transformed into housing after the residential scheme won the go-ahead from Angus planners. (Permalink) Dundee and Newtyle Railway Newtyle Newtyle [1st] Planning Newtyle [1st]: The Dundee end of the older Newtyle station in 1998 looking north. The approach via the [[Hatton incline]] is behind the camera. Ewan Crawford //1998 Newtyle [1st]: North end of the original 1831 station at Newtyle in July 2007. View is west from Bulb Farm Road. John Furnevel 12/07/2007 Newtyle [1st]: More than 100 years after closure, Newtyle (Old) station building survives in agricultural use in October 1974. The original Dundee-Newtyle route included three inclined planes which required stationa ... Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /10/1974 Evening Telegraph Newtyle [1st]