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Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont]
The line is open again at Carmont and Colas 70808 was back on its usual route with Cement from ...
Kintore
First trains at Kintore on its day of re-opening. 43003 calls at the station. ...
Balshaw Lane Junction
LSLs 90002 resplendent in Inter City Swallow livery, on the 5Z90 Crewe to Preston test run with DVT ...
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Carron Water Bridge [West Carmont]
Access and recovery work ongoing on 23rd August 2020 at the site of the Carmont derailment. ...
Gregson Lane Crossing
RTCs southbound 'Cumbrian Mountain Express' approaches Gregson Lane Crossing with 46115 'Scots ...
Scotland
Transport Scotland - Rail Services Decarbonisation Action Plan for 2035. Lines shown in red are to ...
Bamber Bridge
The first steam charter since lockdown, Saphos Trains 'The Fellsman' is seen near Bamber Bridge on ...
Euxton Balshaw Lane
87002 with D1935 and a mixed rake of carriages are seen just north of Euxton Balshaw Lane on 25 June ...
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On this day
| 1855 | Great Southern and Western Railway Extended from Cork Victoria to Penrose Quay, initially using the goods depot. |
| 1962 | Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway Aberavon Town closed |
| 2003 | Channel Tunnel Rail Link Phase 2 Tunnel Boring Machine completes tunnel by breaking through to the Barrington Road ventilation shaft. |
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This day in history
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B1 4-6-0 61278 at Carlisle on the afternoon of 3 December 1966 with the BR Scottish Region Last B1 excursion. The special is waiting to return to Edinburgh via the Waverley route. K A Gray (1966) |
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Notes and Queries
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This rather dapper photographer is a possible candidate for 'Snapper' in a view looking over the east end of Waverley. Does anyone know who this photographer is? |
Miscellany
Related to Princes Street [1st].The Nor' Loch
By the 1780s the North Loch, between Edinburgh's Old and New Towns had been drained and partly retained as a canal. Canal Street was named for this water course.
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Key events
| December 2020 | ScotRail timetable reduction. |
| November 2020 | ScotRail alcohol ban introduced. |
| October 2020 | Kerr^s Miniature Railway closed. Kintore station opens. |
| September 2020 | LNER cease using Class 91s on Anglo-Scottish journeys. |
| August 2020 | Three dead when train derailed hitting landslip near Stonehaven. Union Canal burst its banks, flooding the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway near Polmont. Trial run of timber trains on the Far North line. |
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Slideshows
| The Great Britain Railtour | 
| 10 photos |
| Track renewals in the Arbroath and Montrose Area | 
| 14 photos |
| Tunisia | 
| 2 photos |
| The Great Siberian Railway | 
| 18 photos |
| New Street No More | 
| 10 photos |
| Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway | 
| 14 photos |
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Books
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South East Asia Railways
ASIN 1445698889
Publisher Amberley Publishing
Published 2022-05-15
Author(s) Green, Peter
Industrial Railways (Britain's Heritage)
ASIN 1445698625
Publisher Amberley Publishing
Published 2022-05-15
Author(s) Coulls, Anthony
The Fifteen Guinea Special: The End of Steam and the Story of Preservation on the Mainline
ASIN 1445685035
Publisher Amberley Publishing
Published 2019-10-15
Author(s) Ian Hardman
North East Railways in the 1970s and 1980s
ASIN 1445687402
Publisher Amberley Publishing
Published 2019-09-15
Author(s) John Carlson
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