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Addiewell
Work on a £500k platform upgrade, to install a new platform and easily maintained surface at ...
Leven
Leven station, looking to Cameron Bridge. ...
Dunblane
Network Rail has completed works as part of an £11.2m investment at Dunblane station that will ...
Kingscote
In early 2024, after long term storage on the Bluebell Railway, ex-GWR 'Dukedog' outside frame 4-4-0 ...
Sandhills
Merseyrail's Class 507 EMUs continue to be scrapped as the fleet runs down and at the beginning of ...
Woodacre Crossing
When the preceding Inverness to Queen St DMU hit a deer near Kingussie on 8th May 2024 it caused ...
Alves
66746 passes East Cloves, between Elgin and Alves, on 7th May 2024 with the 08.40 Keith - Kyle of ...
Stepends Junction
View north east near the former Stepends Junction showing the sinkhole between the former stations ...
Croy
A £3.5m programme to improve the resilience of the railway between Croy and Dullatur in extreme ...
Ayr Station Hotel
I have been following the progress of destruction at Ayr but decided not to submit each and every ...
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Newtyle [1st]
The new housing development at Newtyle, incorporating the surviving railway buildings, seen on 25th ...
Rannoch Viaduct
Network Rail has completed its £1.6m project to complete essential upgrade works on Rannoch ...
Moy
Double headed by Black 5s 44871 and 45407, 'The Great Britain XVI' is welcomed by a heavy sleet ...
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On this day
| 1836 | Bristol and Exeter Railway Act passed. |
| 1845 | London and Greenwich Railway
Franklin Expedition A 15 tonne 25hp locomotive from the railway, with its wheels removed, was installed in the HMS Erebus to provide hot water and power. Another was fitted to HMS Terror. The Erebus and Terror, of the ill fated Franklin Expedition, left the Thames in 1845 to discover the North West passage. |
| 1936 | Arbroath and Forfar Railway Waulkmill Signal Box closed. |
| 1940 | Weston, Clevedon and Portishead Railway The line is closed. It was used by the Great Western Railway briefly for storing spare stock. |
| 1952 | Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway Dumfries to Lockerbie closed to passengers. |
| 1988 | West Highland Railway Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway) Banavie RETB Signalling Centre formally opened by David Mitchell, Minister for Transport. |
| 2008 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Kincardine Branch (North British Railway) The railway between Stirling and Alloa re-opens to passengers. The line between Stirling and Longannet Power Station via Alloa re-opens to freight providing an alternative route to the Forth Bridge. |
| 2014 | Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway
Caledonian Railway Electric passenger services begin operating between Glasgow and Cumbernauld following commissioning of 50 km of 25 kV 50 Hz electrification between Springburn and Cumbernauld. |
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This day in history
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B1 61146 leaving the yard at Fraserburgh on 19 May 1949 with a freight for Aberdeen. The locomotive had been delivered new from the Vulcan Foundry to Kittybrewster shed approximately two years earlier. G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow (1949) |
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Notes and Queries
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A Class 47 loco stabled near a junction in summer 1989 but where and what are those gantries for? |
Miscellany
Related to Earn Viaduct [Forgandenny].More
Key events
| March 2024 | Alex Hynes departure announced from Scotland for DfT Jacobite suspended |
| February 2024 | Dunblane resignalling to allow southbound trains to depart from Platform 3 Highland networks closed by storm on 5 February East Kilbride carpark reduced for new station construction Addiewell temporarily closed for reconstruction Brodick ferries diverted to Troon by Ardrossan pier damage Seawall damage near Helmsdale |
| January 2024 | 'The Hatch' café opens at Singer 'Reboot your Commute' advertising campaign Four loops taken out of use during snow on HML Storms Isha and Jocelyn led to network closures from 1900 on 21 and 23 January Storm Ingunn on 31 January closed West and North Highland routes |
| December 2023 | Further strikes and other action by ASLEF at DfT train operators in first week of December Glasgow-Barrhead electric services begin Cathcart Circle and Shotts expresses restored all day East Linton station opens 'Polar Express' trains on the Edinburgh South Suburban First Boxing Day trains to Edinburgh since 1981 Storms Pia and Gerritt affect services |
| November 2023 | RMT members vote to accept pay offer, but ASLEF announce a rolling programme of strikes in December at DfT operators. Waverley brought to a standstill for rest of day after power-surge fried signals on 2 November. Calls suspended at Altnabreac. New Sleeper lounge at Euston. New coffee-shop at Shettleston. |
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Slideshows
| Welsh stations, National and Heritage Lines 1980-2022 | [[images]] | 0 photos |
| First Day of Elizabeth Line "core" section, 24.5.22 | [[images]] | 0 photos |
| Cumbernauld | 
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| Way down south (South West!) | 
| 51 photos |
| Sleeper | 
| 42 photos |
| Edinburgh Trams, Newhaven Extension, 1st Day, 7.6.23 | [[images]] | 0 photos |
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Books
Selected from Amazon's New Releases.
The Railways of Stirling
ASIN 1915069297
Publisher Lightmoor Press
Published 2023-09-20
Author(s) Peddie, Donald
Class 08 Locomotives in Scotland (Class Locomotives)
ASIN 1398105600
Publisher Amberley Publishing
Published 2023-10-15
Author(s) Howat, Colin J.
The Dundee & Arbroath Railway
ASIN 1915069173
Publisher Lightmoor Press
Published 2023-02-24
Author(s) Ferguson, Niall
Edinburgh, Granton and Leith Railways
ASIN 1398108561
Publisher Amberley Publishing
Published 2023-04-15
Author(s) Williamson, Kenneth G.
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