CIE
Dates
| / /1893 | Dublin and Kingstown Railway Siding laid to the Royal Dublin Society show grounds. |
| 14/02/1900 | Dublin and Wicklow Railway Train fails to slow sufficiently and crashes through the end screen of Dublin Harcourt Street station, at the buffer end, resulting in the locomotive hanging over Hatch Street. |
| / /1903 | PS Lady Rowena Having become the spare boat is rented to the Lochgoil Company. Then sold to Societa di Navigazione a Vapore della Penisola Sorrentina of Naples. |
| / /1908 | Beardmore Glacier Glacier named Beardmore Glacier by Ernest Shackleton during his Nimrod Expedition for his friend, and sponsor, William Beardmore [Junior]. |
| / /1953 | County Donegal Railways Joint Committee Great Northern Railway [Ireland] owned share of the committee transfers to the Coras Iompair Eireann (CIE) and Ulster Transport Authority (UTA). |
| / /1958 | Ravenscraig Steel WorksGeneral Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway General Terminus re-built for importing coal and iron ore as the facilities at Rothesay Dock and the Rothesay Dock Branch (North British Railway and Caledonian Railway) were not sufficient. |
| 15/05/1958 | Strathendrick and Aberfoyle Railway Forth and Clyde Junction Railway Blane Valley Railway Campsie Branch (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) Stevenson Locomotive Society Railtour travels from Glasgow to Aberfoyle. (Also visiting Kilsyth (Old)). [189] |
| 13/10/1962 | Forth and Clyde Canal Glasgow University Railway Society charter Ashton for a trip along the canal |
| / /1964 | Dalderse and Springfield Iron Works Branch (North British Railway) The Scottish Railway Preservation Society starts to assemble a collection at Springfield Yard. |
| / /1965 | Dublin and Antrim Junction Railway Re-opened to passengers to carry CIE trains to Londonderry on closure of the route via Omagh. |
| 16/04/1965 | SLS and Branch Line Society Organise a brake-van trip around Ayrshire. |
| / /1971 | Dalderse and Springfield Iron Works Branch (North British Railway) Branch closed to goods traffic but remains open to Springfield Yard for the Scottish Railway Preservation Society. |
| / /1971 | Dublin and Kingstown Railway Royal Dublin Society show grounds siding (OOU) officially closed. |
| / /1971 | County Donegal Railways Joint Committee
Strabane and Letterkenny Railway Joint Committee and S&LR are wound up and services passed to bus division of the Coras Iompair Eireann (CIE). |
| 25/08/1973 | Stirling and Dunfermline Railway Devon Valley Railway Final train to Dollar, the Branch Line Society's Stirling and Dunfermline Railtour. |
| / /1974 | North British Railway With the proposal that 8'6'' containers be accommodated the Penmanshiel Tunnel is examined. There is insufficient clearance and it is proposed that the tunnel floor be lowered. |
| /08/1974 | PS Waverley [IV] Having been withdrawn by the Scottish Transport Group, Waverley is sold to the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society for a nominal one pound. The pound was donated by Sir Patrick Thomas, the chairman of the Scottish Transport Group. To now be operated by the Waverley Steam Navigation Company. |
| / /1979 | Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway Scottish Railway Preservation Society starts to build line at Bo'ness. |
| / /1979 | Aberdeen Railway Brechin Preservation Society formed. |
| 22/10/1979 | Perth and Dundee Railway 5 are killed (sources vary, some say 4) when two trains collide near Invergowrie when one over-runs a signal. A Glasgow to Aberdeen service runs into the rear of a Glasgow to Dundee local train resulting in carriages falling into the sea. The cause was a deficient semaphore which did not return to danger. |
| / /1980 | National Coal Board Cowdenbeath Mine Rescue Team privatised and moved to Crossgate. Now specialise in training and to respond to Longannet Mine complex emergencies. |
| 23/08/1980 | Branch Line Society Lothian and Fife Wanderer. |
| / /1981 | Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway New Bo'ness station opened by Scottish Railway Preservation Society. |
| / /1983 | Leadhills and Wanlockhead Light Railway (Caledonian Railway) Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway Society formed. |
| / /1984 | Bristol and Exeter Railway Track of Westerleigh Tramway lifted by the Great Western Society. |
| / /1987 | Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway Kinneil station opened by Scottish Railway Preservation Society. |
| / /1987 | Dalderse and Springfield Iron Works Branch (North British Railway) Scottish Railway Preservation Society stock moved from Springfield Yard to Bo'ness. |
| / /1989 | Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway Birkhill station opened by Scottish Railway Preservation Society. |
| / /1990 | Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway Scottish Railway Preservation Society completes Bo'ness line to Manuel Junction (A station was opened here and the line may be extended to join the Union Canal). |
| / /1996 | Deeside Railway Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society formed. |
| / /1999 | PS Waverley [IV] Beginning of 7 months of renovation at George Prior Engineering, Great Yarmouth. The work cost £4m between 1999-2000 and was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society (£7m including 2002-2003 work). |
| /02/1999 | Deeside Railway Council asks Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society not to re-open line at Ferryhill. Heritage Centre to be opened next to Duthie Park instead. |
| 13/02/2000 | Deeside Railway Last delivery of a set of track panels to Milton of Crathes for partial re-instatement of the line by the Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society. |
| 13/08/2000 | Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway) A Branch Line Society railtour visits Broomhill Loading Pad. |
| 13/08/2000 | Ayr and Cumnock Line (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Branch Line Society railtour The Broomhill visits Broomhill Loading Pad from Holehouse Junction. |
| / /2002 | Dunaskin Shed The Ayrshire Railway Preservation Society stock is relocated from the Scottish Industrial Railway Centre [1st] to the former Dalmellington Iron Works with a £65,000 grant from the Cumnock and Doon Valley Minerals Trust. |
| / /2003 | Deeside Railway Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society commences work to relay a short portion of the line from Milton of Crathes. |
| /04/2006 | Deeside Railway Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society's short line (1/4 of a mile) from the incomplete Milton of Crathes opened. |
| /10/2008 | Scottish Midland Junction Railway Perth New Yard lifted. Unfortunately the turntable was also cut up, despite being offered to the Scottish Railway Preservation Society. |
| / /2010 | Deeside Railway Return of steam to the Deeside Railway - now the Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society's line from Milton of Crathes. |
| /08/2011 | Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction Railway Old Meldrum station dismantling by the Royal Deeside Railway Preservation Society begins. Work continued in April 2012. The building was re-located to Milton of Crathes. |
| /10/2018 | Great North of Scotland Railway Re-opening of Kittybrewster and Bucksburn is abandoned with the argument that there is insufficient land or access. |
| / /2020 | Doon Valley Railway The name Doon Valley Railway is selected by the Ayrshire Railway Preservation Society for the preserved portion of line at Waterside. |
