News
| 18/08/2018 | First upgraded InterCity train arrives in Scotland BBC News |
| 18/08/2018 | Plans to merge British Transport Police with Police Scotland could be scrapped Scotsman |
| 18/08/2018 | New steam rail interchange opens in Princes Risborough BBC News |
| 18/08/2018 | Wales completes £800m order for 148 new trains BBC News |
| 17/08/2018 | London Euston station closes for first of three weekends BBC News |
| 17/08/2018 | Transport chiefs accused of palming off Aberdeen rail works disruption onto council Press and Journal |
| 17/08/2018 | Rail bosses urged to utilise spare space to carry freight RAIL |
| 17/08/2018 | Aberdeen to Dyce train line to reopen next week Evening Express |
| 16/08/2018 | Network Rail gets green light to enable more freight along Felixstowe branch line Network Rail |
| 16/08/2018 | Latest CalMac ferry now delayed by a year Scotsman |
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KML VersionNews in pictures
On this day
| 1561 | Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith from France |
| 1745 | Jacobite Rebellion under Charles Edward Stuart The Princes standard raised at Glenfinnan |
| 1745 | Charles Edward Stewart Standard raised at Glenfinnan |
| 1844 | Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway South to West curve opened at Brockley Whins on wooden viaduct to avoid reversals. |
| 1850 | Alnwick Branch (York Newcastle and Berwick Railway) Line opened to passengers. |
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This day in history
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The 6pm ex-Glasgow Queen Street climbs Cowlairs bank on its way to Edinburgh on 19 August 1952. The locomotive is Haymarket A3 Pacific no 60096 Papyrus. G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow [1952] |
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Key events
| June 2018 | Serious rail disruption caused by unusually high temperatures near end of month. |
| May 2018 | First of the ScotRail leased class 365 units appears on the E&G line. |
| March 2018 | Red weather warning of freezing temperatures and heavy snow is followed by transport chaos at beginning of month. |
| February 2018 | Announcement that Stagecoach/Virgin ECML franchise to end early. |
| December 2017 | First electric services run on Edinburgh - Glasgow main line. |
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Slideshows
| Bath and Bristol since 2008 |    | 87 photos |
| Cumbernauld |    | 4 photos |
| Kenya National Rail Museum Nairobi |    | 16 photos |
| Milton Keynes |    | 50 photos |
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ASIN 1405929782
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Published 2017-08-24
Author(s) Kate Moore
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Published 2018-10-16
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