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20/07/2019	Battery-powered trains call for Thurso-Wick line Press and Journal
19/07/2019	Ferguson shipyard could be nationalised amid ferry row BBC News
18/07/2019	Mixed report for Network Rail Scotland in ORR’s annual assessment ORR
17/07/2019	Calls for new rail depot in Elgin to bring jobs and more services to Aberdeen and Inverness Press and Journal
17/07/2019	Scotland's ‘most remote restaurant’ hit by closure of key Highland rail route Scotsman
17/07/2019	Govia Thameslink fined £1m over Gatwick Express window death BBC News
15/07/2019	Talks due over future of Aberdeen rail signal box Evening Express
15/07/2019	Government should not manage railways, says review BBC News
15/07/2019	Major fire near to Boat of Garten steam railway station Strathspey Herald
15/07/2019	Scotrail offers answers to Moray train travel complaints Press and Journal

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1835	Paisley and Renfrew Railway First 3 miles opened.
1840	Glasgow Paisley Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway Howwood to Paisley opened.
1845	Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway North British Railway Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway merged with the North British Railway.
1845	Leeds and Thirsk Railway Company incorporated, line receives act; Leeds to Thirsk with two branches to the Leeds and Bradford Railway one at Bramley and one at Holbeck, one curve to the Great North of England Railway at Thirsk, and two short branches to Harrogate and Knaresborough.
1845	York and North Midland Railway Act for a branch from Church Fenton to Harrogate via Wetherby.

Weekend locomotive lineup at Eastfield shed on Saturday 21 July 1951. Nearest the camera is ^Crab^ 2-6-0 42749, then J36 0-6-0 65221, then K2 2-6-0 61794 <I>Loch Oich</I>.

Weekend locomotive lineup at Eastfield shed on Saturday 21 July 1951. Nearest the camera is ^Crab^ 2-6-0 42749, then J36 0-6-0 65221, then K2 2-6-0 61794 Loch Oich.

G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow [1951]

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Key events

June 2019	New Caledonian Sleeper suffers various problems and delays.
Apr 2019	New Caledonian Sleeper launched.
Feb 2019	Construction of two new platforms (5 & 6) completed at Edinburgh Waverley.
Dec 2018	New ScotRail timetable implemented.
Oct 2018	New ScotRail 385s taken out of service due to braking fault.