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Six services have been announced today after being in doubt.
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'The association made it quite clear they would not bail out the company.'
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Firefighters are currently tackling a major blaze near to Boat of Garten's steam railway station.
It is understood that the fire broke out at around 1.45pm in a nearby workshed and there are five fire appliances in attendance. Neighbouring properties and the golf club have been evacuated (Permalink) Strathspey Railway [Preserved] |
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Motorists have been failing to stop for lights at a railway level crossing before driving in front of a steam train that operates on the line.
Police Scotland said there had been a number of similar incidents at the crossing in Aviemore's Dalfaber Drive over the past week. Strathspey Railway runs a steam train between Aviemore, Boat of Garten and Broomhill. Police said the motorists were committing an offence. (Permalink) Strathspey Railway [Preserved]  Dalfaber Level Crossing: A graphic illustration of what can happen when you ignore the warning lights at an ungated level crossing. This is Dalfaber on the Strathspey Railway where, fortunately, only the car was written off. ... |
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Born: 14 June, 1926, in Cambridge. Died: Overnight 29/30 December, 2014, in Newtonmore, aged 88.
Allan Garraway was one of the giants of railway preservation, an expert who was not merely a railway enthusiast but an enthusiastic railwayman, a subtle but a vital distinction. Internationally renowned in his field, he ran the world's oldest operational railway company, an enterprise that would not exist today but for his contribution and tenacity. For almost 30 years he managed the historic Ffestiniog Railway Company in Wales, which he had been determined to reinvent, and in retirement was a director of the spectacular Strathspey Railway in the Highlands, an area he had known as a schoolboy. (Permalink) Obituary Strathspey Railway [Preserved] |
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The Strathspey Steam Railway is set to remain on track in its bid to re-connect Aviemore and Grantown by loco.
Members of the Cairngorms National Park Authority's planning committee are being recommended to approve the latest work to extend the railway towards Grantown. The proposal is to relay track from the River Dulnain crossing for around 1.7 kilometres leading east past Ballintomb Farm to Lower Gaich Farm, in the Dulnain Bridge area. (Permalink) Inverness and Perth Junction Railway Strathspey Railway [Preserved]  Broomhill: Ivatt class 2MT no 46512 stands in the run-round loop at Broomhill with a special working prior to the official opening of the Broomhill Extension on the Strathspey Railway in 2002.  River Dulnain Viaduct: The first girder is slowly eased into position at Dulnain Bridge on the Strathspey Railway on 14 February 2014.  Grantown-on-Spey West: The distinctive signal box and substantial station building at Grantown-on-Spey West, still extant in April 1968, three years after closure - but alas now long gone. |
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A section of Strathspey railway line which was axed as part of the notorious Beeching cuts has now re-opened to rail passengers for the first time in nearly 60 years.
The line was officially closed on October 18, 1956, but a rail service has just restarted taking passengers from beyond the current terminus at Broomhill Station and on for a further three-quarters of a mile towards Grantown. The diesel engine stopped short of crossing the recently installed bridge spanning the River Dulnain on the first outing on Wednesday. A planning application for laying track across the bridge was recently called in by the Cairngorms National Parks planning committee. (Permalink) Inverness and Perth Junction Railway Strathspey Railway [Preserved] Broomhill: Ivatt class 2MT no 46512 stands in the run-round loop at Broomhill with a special working prior to the official opening of the Broomhill Extension on the Strathspey Railway in 2002. River Dulnain Viaduct: The first girder is slowly eased into position at Dulnain Bridge on the Strathspey Railway on 14 February 2014. Grantown-on-Spey West: The distinctive signal box and substantial station building at Grantown-on-Spey West, still extant in April 1968, three years after closure - but alas now long gone. |
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Railway enthusiasts have hired a powerful crane to lift the lower sections of a new bridge into place across a river in the Highlands.
Strathspey Steam Railway needs a crossing on the River Dulnain so it can offer journeys between Aviemore and Grantown-on-Spey. (Permalink) Inverness and Perth Junction Railway Strathspey Railway [Preserved]  Millburn Yard: Leaving Millburn Yard for Aviemore in October 2008, with the bridge sections that will eventually span the River Dulnain.  Merry Street Bridge: A class 08 working on the Mossend - Ravenscraig no 3 line crossing the bridge over Merry Street, Motherwell, in the 1980s. This bridge was removed in 2008 and transported by rail to the Strathspey Rai ...  Broomhill Junction: Strathspey Railway Class 27 No 5394/27106 near Broomhill Junction on 13 February hauling the Colas Crane towards Broomhill. The crane will be used to lift the replacement bridge into position across t ... |
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A major step in the return of steam engines to Grantown is set to start soon as part of a project costing more than £30,000.
A steel bridge structure which used to cross Merry Street in Motherwell and was donated by Network Rail in 2008 will be installed over the River Dulnain. A massive rail-borne Kirow 1200 crane, operated by Colas Rail, is coming north to lift the bridge beams into position in mid-February. Members of 39 Engineer Regiment, based at Kinloss Barracks, will assist with later bridge works. (Permalink) Inverness and Perth Junction Railway Strathspey Railway [Preserved] Merry Street Bridge: A class 08 working on the Mossend - Ravenscraig no 3 line crossing the bridge over Merry Street, Motherwell, in the 1980s. This bridge was removed in 2008 and transported by rail to the Strathspey Rai ...  River Dulnain Viaduct: Photograph showing the the gap between the abutments over the River Dulnain to be spanned by the former Merry Street bridge following its relocation. [Photo with kind permission of the Strathspey Rail ...  Findhorn Viaduct [Tomatin]: Sections of the bridge that once carried the line into Ravenscraig Steelworks over Merry Street, Motherwell, are seen crossing Findhorn Viaduct on their way north on 3 October. The bridge, donated by ... |
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What was once the 'highest railway station in Britain' has been taken apart and will be rebuilt at the site of a music festival.
The wooden Victorian building was built at about 1,400ft at Dalnaspidal and was opened in 1864. In the 1970s it was taken down and rebuilt in Aviemore and had been in the care of Strathspey Steam Railway. After becoming surplus to requirements, it has been moved to Inshriach, home of the Insider Festival. (Permalink) Aviemore Speyside Dalnaspidal Inshriach Inverness and Perth Junction Railway Strathspey Railway [Preserved] |
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Railway enthusiasts are to mark the 150th anniversary of the opening of a line from Perth to Inverness.
Strathspey Steam Railway plans to recreate part of a free celebratory train journey held in 1863 between Aviemore and Grantown-on-Spey. Grantown cannot be reached by train today, but on 3 August's anniversary a steam locomotive will pull a train from Aviemore as far as Broomhill. Passengers wearing Victorian clothing will travel free. (Permalink) Strathspey Railway [Preserved]  Boat of Garten: 80105 on an Aviemore - Broomhill train taking water at Boat of Garten in September 2004.  Broomhill: City of Truro waits to depart from Broomhill on 28 August 2006 with a train for Aviemore.  Boat of Garten: Caledonian Railway no 828 running round at Boat of Garten on 18 August 1993. |
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Investigations are under way after a tourist train derailed yesterday while taking 100 passengers on a pleasure trip through the Highlands.
The incident happened as the Strathspey Railway engine approached Broomhill Station near Nethybridge at 1.10pm. [From John Robin] (Permalink) Strathspey Railway [Preserved] |
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Hundreds of train enthusiasts flocked to the Strathspey Railway Steam Fair at the weekend.
(Permalink) Strathspey Railway [Preserved] Boat of Garten: 80105 on an Aviemore - Broomhill train taking water at Boat of Garten in September 2004. Broomhill: City of Truro waits to depart from Broomhill on 28 August 2006 with a train for Aviemore. Boat of Garten: Caledonian Railway no 828 running round at Boat of Garten on 18 August 1993. |
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Nearly eight years after the re-opening of the original Highland Main line between Boat of Garten and Broomhill and eighteen months after reaching the River Dulnain, the Strathspey Railway Charitable Trust launched the 'Rails to Grantown' appeal at Broomhill Station, near Dulnain Bridge yesterday. Local and national politicians as well as leaders of the many organisations that are giving support to the project attended. The intention of the appeal is to raise at least £182,000 in the current year, part of the estimated £5M it will cost to restore a train service to Grantown-on-Spey.
Braeriach, a 0-6-0 tank locomotive formerly on the Weymss Private Railway, pulling the LMS Inspection Officers Saloon heralded the launch of the appeal event at noon. During the afternoon, this train took guests down some of the new track already laid towards Grantown. [With thanks to Sue Davies] (Permalink) Highland Main Line Strathspey Railway [Preserved]  Broomhill: Strathspey Railway No.17 is seen nearing Broomhill. Nicely turned out in lined green and named Braeriach. A huge improvement on last year.  Broomhill: Reinstatement of passenger railway service. A delightful poster at Broomhill.  River Dulnain Viaduct: Drivers eye view of the approach to the site of Dulnain Bridge on 10 October 2008. [With kind permission of the Strathspey Railway.] |
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The Scottish Executive agrees to the re-alignment of the A95 to allow the Strathspey railway to be extended.
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The Strathspey Railway has re-opened the line between Boat of Garten and Broomhill closed to passengers on 18/10/1965. This brings the Strathspey Railway's intention to re-open the line between Aviemore and Grantown closer to completion leaving only the Broomhill to Grantown section which involves a tricky crossing of the A95(T).
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