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Slamannan And Borrowstounness Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Looking east over the new Boness station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/823.jpg "Boness")
![And a further incomplete map showing what is now the Boness and Kinneil Railway and was the extension from Causewayend to Boness.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/13000/13400.jpg "taster")
![Keen as mustard! ...the former Wormit station building relocated at SRPS Boness.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //]](/images/17000/17011.jpg "Boness")
![Lookalike scene at Boness to Castle Cary (WR)!<br><br>[Brian Forbes //]](/images/17000/17025.jpg "Boness")
![Ex-LNER Class D49 <I>Morayshire</I> slows as she comes round the bend before pulling up at the 'request stop' at Kinneil on her way back to Boness Station.<br>
<br><br>[David Forbes //]](/images/25000/25231.jpg "Kinneil")
![Scene at SRPS Bo'ness - during what appears to have been a diesel weekend. No date on this one.<br><br>[David Panton //]](/images/26000/26788.jpg "Boness")
![Boness - Polmont branch trains. At Boness. NB 4.4.2T 7468. (Wet forenoon).<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 25/09/1948]](/images/11000/11249.jpg "Boness Old")
![54465 at Bo'ness during the Branch Line Society rail tour from Polmont on 7 May 1960. The pair of ex-Caledonian coaches used on the tour can be seen in the background.<br>
<br><br>[Stuart Sellar 07/05/1960]](/images/25000/25480.jpg "Boness Old")
![Pickersgill 4-4-0 no 54465 getting ready to leave Bo'ness and head for Bowhouse with the next leg of the BLS railtour of 7 May 1960 [see image 25421].<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 07/05/1960]](/images/25000/25541.jpg "Boness")
![Robinson D11 4-4-0 no 62691 <I>Laird of Balmawhapple</I> stands in the sidings alongside Boness Harbour in February 1962 in company with various other steam locomotives stored there awaiting disposal. Built by Armstrong - Whitworth in 1924, no 62691 had been withdrawn from Haymarket shed 3 some months earlier. It was eventually cut up at Connels of Calder the following March. <br><br>[K A Gray 26/02/1962]](/images/34000/34038.jpg "Boness")
![62693 <I>Roderick Dhu</I> et al lined up at Boness Harbour in February 1962. The 'Director' had been 'officially' withdrawn from Haymarket 3 months earlier.<br><br>[K A Gray 26/02/1962]](/images/37000/37290.jpg "Boness")
![Class V1 2-6-2T no 67622 stands in the 'stored locomotive' sidings at Boness Harbour on 26 February 1962. The locomotive is recorded as being officially withdrawn from Parkhead shed the following month. <br><br>[K A Gray 26/02/1962]](/images/40000/40093.jpg "Boness")
![Locomotives in the disposal sidings at Boness Harbour in February 1962 include J83 0-6-0T no 68479.<br><br>[K A Gray 26/02/1962]](/images/43000/43294.jpg "Boness")
![Stanier 3P 2-6-2T 40158 and Reid 0-6-2T 69191 in the stored locomotive sidings at Boness Harbour in February 1962.<br><br>[K A Gray 26/02/1962]](/images/44000/44272.jpg "Boness")
![Locomotives awaiting disposal in the sidings at Boness Harbour on 26 February 1962 include a pair of Parkhead shed's class V3 2-6-2Ts, nos 67625 and 67650. Both were cut up at Darlington Works in the autumn of 1963. <br><br>[K A Gray 26/02/1962]](/images/44000/44736.jpg "Boness")
![Reid N15 0-6-2T 69191 on the stored locomotive line at Boness Harbour in February 1962. 'Officially' withdrawn from Eastfield shed some 8 months after this photograph was taken, 69191 was cut up at Cowlairs Works in October 1962.<br><br>[K A Gray 26/02/1962]](/images/45000/45796.jpg "Boness")
![Gresley V3 2-6-2T 67626 standing in a line of stored steam locomotives at Bo'ness Harbour on 26 February 1962.<br><br>[K A Gray 26/02/1962]](/images/51000/51338.jpg "Boness")
![Locomotives awaiting disposal in the sidings at Bo'ness Harbour in February 1962. Nearest is NB N15 0-6-2T 69181, with sister locomotive 69131 standing beyond. Both had been withdrawn from Eastfield shed earlier that month. <br><br>[K A Gray 26/02/1962]](/images/52000/52962.jpg "Boness")
![A lineup of stored locomotives awaiting disposal alongside Bo'ness Harbour in February 1962 following a shower of rain. Directly ahead stands J35 0-6-0 no 64472, not officially withdrawn from Kipps shed until the following month. The locomotive was eventually cut up at Connel's of Coatbridge in November of that year.<br><br>[K A Gray 26/02/1962]](/images/53000/53548.jpg "Boness")
![Reid J35 0-6-0 64515 stored awaiting disposal at Boness Harbour in February 1962. The ex-NBR locomotive had been withdrawn from St Margarets three months earlier and was finally cut up by Messrs Connell of Coatbridge in January 1963.<br><br>[K A Gray 26/02/1962]](/images/57000/57592.jpg "Boness")
![Exploring the internal mysteries of a WD 2-8-0 on Bo'ness scrap line in April 1963. [Railscot note: The locomotive in question is 90436, withdrawn from Dawsholm in June 1962 and cut up at Darlington Works in November 1963.] <br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /04/1963]](/images/36000/36542.jpg "Boness")
![Not quite ready for the road - the photographer's sons play trains on J83 No.68479 on the scrap line at Bo'ness in Apriil 1963. The Holmes 0-6-0T, dating from 1901, had been withdrawn from Eastfield shed the previous October.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) /04/1963]](/images/41000/41251.jpg "Boness")
![J38 65914 stands at Kinneil alongside the <I>Scottish Rambler No 5</I> Railtour on 11 April 1966 having brought the train in from Stirling where it took over from Austerity 90386 [see image 20904]. View is west towards Grangemouth. The fenced-off area on the right was a coal stocking yard, shunted by an NCB Pug.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 11/04/1966]](/images/20000/20914.jpg "Kinneil")
![24006 at Kinneil Colliery. The van in the background wouldn't be going far ...<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1974]](/images/60000/60819.jpg "Kinneil Colliery")
![Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST (works number 2043) NCB No.6 at Kinneil Colliery on 16 February 1978. The loco is preserved in working order at nearby Bo'ness. A OO scale model has been announced by Hattons.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 16/02/1978]](/images/61000/61134.jpg "Kinneil Colliery")
![Early days at SRPS Boness in February 1982.<br><br>[John McIntyre 17/02/1982]](/images/17000/17029.jpg "Boness")
![Work in progress at Boness in February 1982 during reconstruction of the station.<br><br>[John McIntyre 17/02/1982]](/images/44000/44663.jpg "Boness")
![Construction of the B&KR station and first shed at Boness on 17 February 1982. <br><br>[John McIntyre 17/02/1982]](/images/61000/61896.jpg "Boness")
![View from the footbridge over the SRPS terminus at Bo'ness, in 1985.<br>
<br><br>[Colin Miller //1985]](/images/27000/27209.jpg "Boness")
![Swedish B Class 4-6-0 at Bo'ness in 1985. The locomotive was subsequently moved to Ludborough on the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway, where it is currently in course of restoration.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1985]](/images/45000/45140.jpg "Boness")
![The <i>Big Swede</i>, complete with Scandinavian coaches, photographed at Boness in 1986.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1986]](/images/19000/19909.jpg "Boness")
![The Swedish 4-6-0 prepares to run round its train at Boness in 1986. <br><br>[Colin Miller //1986]](/images/32000/32365.jpg "Boness")
![The site of Birkhill Station being cleared in August 1986. [Ref Query 11972] [See image 16125]<br><br>[Bill Roberton /08/1986]](/images/46000/46012.jpg "Birkhill")
![What is this? Haymarket train shed newly in position. ex-CR 0-4-4T No 419, hauling the embryonic Norwegian Train. The original service went as far as Kinneil. <br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/1987]](/images/11000/11406.jpg "Boness")
![CR 419 in pristine condition at Boness in 1989.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1989]](/images/34000/34030.jpg "Boness")
![The signalbox relocated from Garnqueen South Junction under construction at Boness.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/20000/20613.jpg "Boness")
![Immaculately liveried 14901 runs round its train at Birkhill Station coupled to the equally well dressed 20020 with a small crowd of admirers taking close up photos.<br><br>[Charlie Niven //1992]](/images/56000/56740.jpg "Birkhill")
![Triple header at Boness... On a dim summer's day the diesel exhaust fumes add to the misty atmosphere. There was 25235 in BR blue leading with D5351 in green at the rear. Could it have been 27001 in the middle?<br><br>[Charlie Niven //1992]](/images/56000/56750.jpg "Boness")
![60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> at Boness in 1993.<br><br>[David Panton //1993]](/images/16000/16900.jpg "Boness")
![Locomotive no 20, a class J94 0-6-0ST, in the yard at SRPS Boness in July 1993. Built by W. G. Bagnall of Stafford in 1945, factory number 2779, it represented the NCB at the 150 Shildon bash in 1975. The locomotive was on loan from the Tanfield Railway and during its stay it was named <I>Tanfield</I>.<br>
<br><br>[Peter Todd /07/1993]](/images/45000/45121.jpg "Boness")
![Wemyss Coal Co Ltd No 20 [Barclay 0-6-0T 2068 0f 1939] at SRPS Boness in July 1993 [see image 22804].<br><br>[Peter Todd 18/07/1993]](/images/50000/50395.jpg "Boness")
![A2 Pacific 60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> stands at Boness during an SRPS Open Day in October 1993.<br><br>[Peter Todd /10/1993]](/images/19000/19199.jpg "Boness")
![Photograph taken during the SRPS Gala on 24 October 1993. A2 60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> and A4 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> stand side by side at Boness station.<br><br>[Peter Todd 24/10/1993]](/images/45000/45107.jpg "Boness")
![Scene at Boness during the SRPS 1993 October Gala, featuring A2 60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> and ex-Clyde's Mill Power Station No 3 [see image 33865].<br><br>[Peter Todd 24/10/1993]](/images/45000/45134.jpg "Boness")
![Preserved A2 Pacific no 60532 <I>Blue Peter</I> at Boness in October 1993.<br><br>[Peter Todd 24/10/1993]](/images/45000/45216.jpg "Boness")
![27 001 about to strike out from Boness station in April 1995 with a train on the SRPS system.<br><br>[David Panton /04/1995]](/images/22000/22122.jpg "Boness")
![A bus to Bo'ness linking with a rail trip to Birkhill was an event in the Edinburgh International Science Festival on 15 April 1995. The photograph shows No 19 running round at Birkhill.<br><br>[David Panton 15/04/1995]](/images/26000/26816.jpg "Birkhill")
![No 19 runs round at Birkhill on 15 April 1995. The trip to Bo'ness and thence Birkhill was an event in the Edinburgh International Science Festival.<br><br>[David Panton 15/04/1995]](/images/26000/26915.jpg "Birkhill")
![No 19 about to leave Boness on 15 April 1995 with a train to Birkhill. The train was being operated in connection with an outing organised by the Edinburgh Science Festival.<br><br>[David Panton 15/04/1995]](/images/27000/27065.jpg "Boness")
![No 1 <I>Lord Roberts</I> photographed at Boness in the Spring of 1997<br><br>[David Panton //1997]](/images/26000/26839.jpg "Boness")
![Platform view at Boness in 1997, with the new station building under construction.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1997]](/images/33000/33074.jpg "Boness")
![The new station building under construction at Boness in 1997, view from the yard.<br><br>[Colin Miller //1997]](/images/33000/33083.jpg "Boness")
![J36 65243 'Maude' at Birkhill in 1997. Hornby announced a OO-scale model of this locomotive on 8th January 2018.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1997]](/images/62000/62488.jpg "Birkhill")
![27001 stands at the head of a train at Bo'ness in 1998 during a diesel weekend.<br><br>[David Panton //1998]](/images/50000/50511.jpg "Boness")
![Preserved 0-6-0ST No 3 <I>Lady Victoria</I> at Boness in March 1998 during a downpour (thus the photograph from the car window). The locomotive was built by Andrew Barclay, Kilmarnock, (works no 1458) in 1916 for the Ministry of Munitions, National Filling Factory No 4, Georgetown (later part of ROF Bishopton). Sold to the Lothian Coal Co after WW1, it ended its working life at Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, part of NCB Area 2 (Lothians). It was acquired by the SRPS in 1978. <br><br>[John Furnevel 02/03/1998]](/images/43000/43801.jpg "Boness")
![The island platform of Manuel Low Level station in 1999. The bay is to the right and through platform to the left. View looks south to the E&G. The reinstated curve between the lines is off to the right. Graham Langmuir described the station, when it was still open, to me as a dark and damp place.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1999]](/images/58000/58578.jpg "Manuel Low Level")
![A rather drab evening at Kinneil with nothing happening. View looks to Boness<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 2X/12/1999]](/images/19000/19119.jpg "Kinneil")
![Not much happening at Birkhill in the gloom of an evening. A well travelled building this, from Monifieth via the Glasgow Garden Festival. View looks to Boness.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 2X/12/1999]](/images/19000/19120.jpg "Birkhill")
![Busiest day ever. 2002. Anyone you know? I hope so.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /08/2002]](/images/12000/12290.jpg "Boness")
![80105 waits at the platform at Boness on 20 August 2003.<br><br>[Colin Miller 20/08/2003]](/images/32000/32161.jpg "Boness")
![Boness on a diabolically rainy evening.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2005]](/images/6000/6413.jpg "Boness")
![View over a quiet Bo'ness station from the footbridge in January 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/01/2005]](/images/1000/1464.jpg "Boness")
![Preserved class 47 no 47643 stands at the head of a diesel lineup at SRPS Boness in January 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/01/2005]](/images/36000/36772.jpg "Boness")
![A pair of type 2s stabled in the trainshed at Boness on 24 January 2005. The locomotives are 25235 (nearest) and D7659. [See image 53534]<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/01/2005]](/images/53000/53197.jpg "Boness")
![14901 (originally D9524) in the sidings at Bo'ness in January 2005. Built at Swindon in 1964 it was withdrawn from Landore shed in May 1969 and subsequently purchased by BP for industrial use at Grangemouth. It eventually became surplus to requirements and was donated to SRPS, Bo'ness, in 1981. The locomotive was sold on in 2006. [See image 48156]<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/01/2005]](/images/53000/53402.jpg "Boness")
![A pair of type 2s stabled in the trainshed at Boness on 24 January 2005. The locomotives are D7659 (nearest) and 25235. [See image 53197]<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/01/2005]](/images/53000/53534.jpg "Boness")
![The former BR Swindon built D9524, renumbered here as 14901, photographed from the station platform at SRPS Bo'ness on 24 January 2005. [See image 53402]<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/01/2005]](/images/53000/53824.jpg "Boness")
![The relocated signal box from Garnqueen South Junction at Bo'ness in January 2005. [See image 54196].<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/01/2005]](/images/54000/54242.jpg "Boness")
![Standing in the yard at Bo'ness on 24 January 2005 is Ruston & Hornsby 4wDE P6687 (312894/1951). The locomotive was previously part of the fleet based at the Renfrew works of Babcock & Wilcox, from whom it was acquired in 1981. <br><br>[John Furnevel 24/01/2005]](/images/56000/56527.jpg "Boness")
![158725 runs up to <i>High Bridge</i> on the SRPS Boness & Kinneil line in January 2006 while undertaking <i>reduced adhesion</i> training with VT and FSR staff.<br><br>[James Young 25/01/2006]](/images/28000/28792.jpg "Boness")
![Racing a thunder cloud. CR 0-4-4T No 419 works hard to reach Boness before the deluge in April 2006.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2006]](/images/17000/17280.jpg "Boness")
![Boness, May 2006. Looking west from the trainshed as 27001 sits in the forward shunt behind the signal cabin.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/2006]](/images/12000/12334.jpg "Boness")
![We miss this! Steam lingering.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/2006]](/images/12000/12476.jpg "Boness")
![Stalwart 26024 poses at SRPS Boness.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/2006]](/images/13000/13641.jpg "Boness")
![26004 with the St Margarets No 3 steam crane at SRPS Boness in September 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel /09/2006]](/images/10000/10758.jpg "Boness")
![Smart looking D8020 standing in the yard at SRPS Boness in September 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel /09/2006]](/images/10000/10798.jpg "Boness")
![A Milngavie train - at Boness! A hybrid 303 with 303032 (A end) standing in the yard on 6 September 2006 at a rain soaked SRPS, Boness. [See image 48497]<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/09/2006]](/images/10000/10753.jpg "Boness")
![Crane in the rain, September 2006. Scene in the SRPS yard at Boness.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/09/2006]](/images/10000/10757.jpg "Boness")
![Part of the wet yard at SRPS Boness on 6 September 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/09/2006]](/images/10000/10859.jpg "Boness")
![303032 (B end) standing in the rain at Boness on 6 September 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/09/2006]](/images/10000/10868.jpg "Boness")
![D8020 in the yards at Boness on 6 September 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/09/2006]](/images/10000/10940.jpg "Boness")
![26004 in the yard at Boness in September 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/09/2006]](/images/11000/11014.jpg "Boness")
![<I>Who used all the paint..?</I> Boness - type 2s. September 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/09/2006]](/images/11000/11353.jpg "Boness")
![08443 stands in the pouring rain in the SRPS yard at Boness in September 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/09/2006]](/images/37000/37393.jpg "Boness")
![Preserved locomotives 47643 and 08443 stand in pouring rain in the yard at Bo'ness on 6 September 2006. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/09/2006]](/images/57000/57129.jpg "Boness")
![A Ruston diesel shunter making up a train at SRPS Boness in 2007.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2007]](/images/18000/18148.jpg "Boness")
![Last train of the day arriving at Boness behind loco 27001.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2007]](/images/18000/18584.jpg "Boness")
![Education, education, education. Three children listen and ask. Boness Easter 2007.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2007]](/images/14000/14454.jpg "Boness")
![Disabled ramp for some of our important visitors at Boness. The gangways between the BK (brake corridor) and the TK (third corridor) have been widened for wheelchairs.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2007]](/images/14000/14536.jpg "Boness")
![State cars of <i>The Royal Scotsman</i> stabled at Boness before the touring season starts. Could be that this pic. will enable me to travel free?<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2007]](/images/14000/14602.jpg "Boness")
![Having a wee laugh, smallest steam loco? Boness carpark during Open Day.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2007]](/images/15000/15086.jpg "Boness")
![NBR Morayshire running around at Boness on a steam day in April 2007.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2007]](/images/16000/16819.jpg "Boness")
![The old Wormit station building sits in the afternoon sun at Boness.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2007]](/images/16000/16935.jpg "Boness")
![246 Morayshire starts a trip to Birkhill, with enthusiasts on the footbridge.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2007]](/images/16000/16938.jpg "Boness")
![Centre of attraction, either the family or the green loco. Can anyone identify the dad and kids?<br><br>[Brian Forbes /04/2007]](/images/16000/16968.jpg "Boness")
![Morayshire running around at Boness. Part of the Royal Scotsman set is stabled in the yard. 7/4/07.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/04/2007]](/images/14000/14420.jpg "Boness")
![LNER D49 246 Morayshire starts a train for Birkhill with steam cocks open, Easter Saturday 2007.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/04/2007]](/images/14000/14421.jpg "Boness")
![Groundframe at south end of platform controlling crossover. This is released from signalbox with bell signals being exchanged. However none of these bell signals are heard by the customers.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/04/2007]](/images/14000/14422.jpg "Boness")
![Main building at Boness which contains a railwayana shop, excellent cafe/restaurant and a Visit Scotland counter. However concerns are afoot because the south wall is made of plywood.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/04/2007]](/images/14000/14423.jpg "Boness")
![Great stuff standing on a bridge when a steam train goes below. Morayshire off up the hill to Birkhill, 7/4/07.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/04/2007]](/images/14000/14424.jpg "Boness")
![CR 0-4-4T no 419 lies bereft of chimney in the loco shed at Boness on 7 April 2007.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/04/2007]](/images/14000/14432.jpg "Boness")
![Volunteers paint the stack of No 419 after welding.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/04/2007]](/images/14000/14433.jpg "Boness")
![Morayshire passing the coaling stage while running around her train during an Open Day in April 2007.<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/04/2007]](/images/14000/14434.jpg "Boness")
![Grounded GSWR BSK, rescued from Paisley Canal. Serving as a bothy for the MPD staff. The water column was donated from Grangemouth station.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/04/2007]](/images/14000/14453.jpg "Boness")
![Arrival <i>back</i> in Boness.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/04/2007]](/images/14000/14601.jpg "Boness")
![Three tank engines under repair within the loco shed at Boness.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/04/2007]](/images/14000/14603.jpg "Boness")
![<i>Ole Macdonald had a farm, ee aye ee aye oh!</i> New larger creche site for open days at Boness 2007.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/04/2007]](/images/14000/14658.jpg "Boness")
![New fire shovelled for the forthcoming 1300 trip to Birkhill.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 07/04/2007]](/images/14000/14660.jpg "boness")
![The former station building from Monifieth now stands at Birkhill on the SRPS system, following its appearance at the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988. The much travelled station is seen here on 7 August looking south west towards Manuel.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/08/2007]](/images/16000/16125.jpg "Birkhill")
![Konduktor (Norwegiam Parcels brake van) on show at Boness. This and two such TOs were the original train set which worked the early Boness to Kinneil services, hauled by CR 0-4-4T 419. Is this where our guards get their name from?<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2007]](/images/16000/16502.jpg "Boness")
![27001 arriving with a service from Birkhill. The second man is ready to give up section token. 27001 is the earliest of a fleet of 96 1260hp Bo-Bo diesel locos built for British Railways in 1957.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/09/2007]](/images/16000/16434.jpg "Boness")
![Shunting display with Rushton 0-4-0 no P6687. A Diesel!<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/09/2007]](/images/16000/16440.jpg "Boness")
![Running round completed. 27001 awaits the shunter to jump down to couple up to the Crimson Lake Set. When 246 Morayshire is the duty loco, the Emerald White set(seen to the left) is used. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/09/2007]](/images/16000/16460.jpg "Boness")
![This is a no smoking area. Complaint from on high? <br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/09/2007]](/images/16000/16461.jpg "Boness")
![Shunt at Boness. The Ruston 0-4-0 with 2 four wheeled fuel tanks, 2 vanfits and a bogie well, waits to propel its train into the yard. Behind the signal box lies the silt filled Boness Harbour. Grandiose plans are afoot to redevelop the waterfront in this vicinity on behalf of the local council, something which may or may not prove problematic for this Heritage Railway. <br><br>[Brian Forbes /10/2007]](/images/17000/17372.jpg "Boness")
![<I>Wee Jock</I> stands with pride on the side of 27001 the substitute loco at SRPS Boness on 02/09/07.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 2/9/2007]](/images/16000/16574.jpg "Boness")
![37175 approaching Boness outer home signal with a diesel gala train.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //2008]](/images/21000/21106.jpg "Boness")
![37025 <I>Inverness TMD</I> at the head of the 16.15 to Birkhill at Boness on 8 June. Echoes of Wick/Thurso?<br><br>[Bill Roberton 08/06/2008]](/images/19000/19365.jpg "Boness")
![LNER class D49 No 246 <I>Morayshire</I> at Boness on 11 July 2008.<br><br>[Colin Miller 11/07/2008]](/images/19000/19899.jpg "Boness")
![Preserved ex-LNER D49 4-4-0 no 246 <I>Morayshire</I> runs round at Birkhill on 11 July 2008.<br><br>[Colin Miller 11/07/2008]](/images/33000/33377.jpg "Birkhill")
![37175 approaching Boness with the 1405 service from Birkhill during the autumn diesel gala on 27th September<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/09/2008]](/images/20000/20830.jpg "Boness")
![37175 in interesting intercity livery seen approaching Boness on 27th September as part ot the SRPS autumn diesel gala.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 27/09/2008]](/images/20000/20870.jpg "Boness")
![Wide view of the modern Boness station and signal box. To the left of the starting semaphore is a rarely seen reception hanger, onto which the incoming single line token ring is looped by the train crew.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 04/10/2008]](/images/20000/20980.jpg "Boness")
![Ex-LNER No 246 <I>Morayshire</I> stands beside the signal box at Boness on 5th October 2008.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/10/2008]](/images/20000/20899.jpg "Boness")
![No 246 <I>Morayshire</I> gets ready to leave Boness on 5th October 2008.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 05/10/2008]](/images/20000/20908.jpg "Boness")
![BR Standard class 4MT 80105 restarts an SRPS <I>Santa Special</I> at Kinneil on Saturday 6 December.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 06/12/2008]](/images/21000/21701.jpg "Kinneil")
![<I>Santa's Polar Express</I> loading for the third round trip between Boness and Birkhill on 6 December. Locomotive 80105 simmers in the frosty afternoon as the well wrapped patrons take in the exciting scene.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 06/12/2008]](/images/21000/21738.jpg "Boness")
![View into the winter sun showing 80105 at the head of <I>Santa's Polar Express</I> from SRPS Boness on 6 December 2008.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 06/12/2008]](/images/22000/22095.jpg "Boness")
![Caley tank 55189 with a mixed train does a run past for a photo charter on the approach to Birkhill station.<br><br>[John Robin 24/02/2009]](/images/22000/22624.jpg "Birkhill")
![55189 departs from Boness station with a mixed train on 24 February 2009. The engine is soon to be overhauled, assisted by proceeds from this photo charter.<br><br>[John Robin 24/02/2009]](/images/22000/22627.jpg "Boness")
![In a scene reminiscent of the 1950s caley tank 55189 does a run past for a photo charter at Birkhill station.<br><br>[John Robin 24/02/2009]](/images/22000/22630.jpg "Birkhill")
![Sun, smoke and steam. 55189 at Boness with a photo-charter on 24 February 2009.<br><br>[John Robin 24/02/2009]](/images/22000/22638.jpg "Boness")
![Standard 4MT tank 80105, running tender first, hauls an early evening service back to Boness from Birkhill Clay Mines in May 2009.<br><br>[David Forbes /05/2009]](/images/24000/24183.jpg "Boness")
![Ex-LNER no 246 <I>Morayshire</I> steaming through the train shed at Boness on <I>A Day Out with Thomas</I> on 16 May 2009<br><br>[Ken Browne 16/05/2009]](/images/24000/24297.jpg "Boness")
![The remaining cab section of 50037 <I>Illustrious</I> in the yard at Boness on 22 May. The locomotive, which entered service with BR in September 1968 (originally D437), was given its name in June 1978. She enjoyed her last couple of years in the South West of England [See image 13243] before being cut up at MC Metals, Glasgow, in 1991. The cab may form a future museum exhibit.<br><br>[David Forbes 22/05/2009]](/images/24000/24166.jpg "Boness")
![Holmes J36 0-6-0 no 65243 <I>Maude</I> at Boness on 19 June 2009. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 19/06/2009]](/images/24000/24198.jpg "Boness")
![BR Standard class 4MT no 80105 pulls away from the platform at Boness on 19 June 2009.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 19/06/2009]](/images/24000/24205.jpg "Boness")
![A smart looking 68095 at Boness on 19 June 2009. [See image 24705]<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 19/06/2009]](/images/24000/24229.jpg "Boness")
![55189 and 65243 on show at Boness on 19 June 2009.<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 19/06/2009]](/images/24000/24237.jpg "Boness")
![Inside one of the Teak coaches. You don't see decor like this nowadays!!<br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24241.jpg "Boness")
![Coach No. 13803 with route boards at Boness<br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24242.jpg "Boness")
![D5310 (Class26010) Built in 1959 and owned by Waverley Route Heritage Association standing at Boness waiting to pull the 1410 Teak Set to Birkhill<br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24245.jpg "Boness")
![The weather said Light SHOWERS!!...... National Coal Board engine No.24 through the rain<br>
<br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24246.jpg "Boness")
![Train shed at Boness proudly hosting a rather handsome Class 47. This loco was aquired in 1995, built in 1965 it was based at Inverness and worked on the sleeper service <br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24248.jpg "Boness")
![Guards compartment <br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24250.jpg "Boness")
![Inside the Signalbox at Boness. The frame is of the Caledonian Railway.. The same type as that could be found in the old box at Cumbernauld. Kind thanks go to the Signalman for allowing access<br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24251.jpg "Boness")
![47643 cabview<br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24253.jpg "Birkhill")
![47643 blowing off smoke at Birkhill<br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24254.jpg "Birkhill")
![NCB No.1 in Thomas Livery waiting patiently in the bay platform to pull the 1640 service<br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24255.jpg "Boness")
![Cabview from Birkhill. Below the set of gloves lay an electric cooking ring!<br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24257.jpg "Birkhill")
![View towards the station from the authorized walking route past Boness Signal box.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24258.jpg "Boness")
![National Coal Board Central West Area No.1 locomotive shunting 2 Caledonian Railway coaches in the yard at Boness on 20 June.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24260.jpg "Boness")
![For such a small loco NCB No.1 certainly smokes!!<br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24261.jpg "Boness")
![Diesel Shunter P6687. Plate details Babcock & Wilcox Ltd, Engineering, Renfrew Works, Scotland<br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24263.jpg "Boness")
![Home Signal gantry controlling entrance to Boness. Thanks go to the Driver, Goundframe Operator and Engineer who allowed me the opportunity to ride in the front cab.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24265.jpg "Boness")
![Inside the Signal box at Boness. 20 June 2009.<br><br>[Colin Harkins 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24266.jpg "Boness")
![Preserved ex-NBR 4-4-0 no 256 <I>Glen Douglas</I> stands at the platform at Boness on 20 June 2009. Behind the loco are two x Highland Railway coaches, a six wheeled first class coach and a four wheel luggage van. Escapees from the Scottish Railway Museum at nearby Bo'ness.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24267.jpg "Boness")
![Impressive steam lineup at Boness on 20 June 2009.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24271.jpg "Boness")
![Steam lineup at Boness station on 20 June 2009.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24295.jpg "Boness")
![<I>Morayshire</I> at Bo'ness on 20 June with the LNER teak set.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 20/06/2009]](/images/24000/24309.jpg "Boness")
![D49 <I>Morayshire</I> stands at Boness on 18 July 2009.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/07/2009]](/images/24000/24660.jpg "Boness")
![Preserved and restored ex-LNER class D49 no 246 <I>Morayshire</I> stands alongside the water tank at Boness on Friday 28th August 2009.<br>
<br><br>[David Forbes 28/08/2009]](/images/25000/25319.jpg "Boness")
![<I>The drivers are definitely getting younger!</I> 37025 halts at Kinneil Halt (request stop) on 29 August 2009 during the SRPS diesel weekend.<br>
<br><br>[David Forbes 29/08/2009]](/images/25000/25249.jpg "Kinneil")
![A DRS (Malcolm liveried) Class 66 (412) makes an appearance on the Boness & Kinneil Railway on 30 August during their August Diesel Weekend.<br><br>[David Forbes 30/08/2009]](/images/25000/25277.jpg "Boness")
![Ex-EWS 37403 (former D6607) photographed on 10 October 2009 in the workshops at Bo'ness, stripped and ready for a rebuild.<br>
<br><br>[David Forbes 10/10/2009]](/images/25000/25834.jpg "Boness")
![Ex-Caledonian tank 55189 undergoing major surgery at Bo'ness on 10 October 2009.<br><br>[David Forbes 10/10/2009]](/images/25000/25858.jpg "Boness")
![25235 stands at Bo'ness on 14 February 2010.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/02/2010]](/images/27000/27707.jpg "Boness")
![37025 <I>Inveness TMD</I> stands at Boness on a wet Sunday 28 March 2010. The locomotive was in action shortly afterwards with a train to Manuel. <br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/03/2010]](/images/28000/28279.jpg "Boness")
![On the morning of Sunday 11 April, class 5MT no 44871 is cleaned as it rests on shed at Bo'ness. The locomotive, along with classmate no 45407, had arrived here the previous night after working Glasgow - Stranraer and return with <i>The Great Britain III</i> railtour.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Andy Carr 11/04/2010]](/images/28000/28616.jpg "Boness")
![Class D49 no 246 <I>Morayshire</I> and class 5MT no 45407 prepare to pass under the A904 Grangemouth Road with the 12:15pm departure from Bo'ness to Manuel on 11 April. No 45407 had arrived at Bo'ness the previous night along with classmate no 44871 after working the Glasgow to Stranraer and return leg of <I>The Great Britain III</i> railtour.<br><br>[Andy Carr 11/04/2010]](/images/28000/28633.jpg "Boness")
![Sunday afternoon at Birkhill. View south towards Manuel on 16 May 2010.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 16/05/2010]](/images/28000/28994.jpg "Birkhill")
![80105 in disguise approaching Birkhill on 16 May 2010. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 16/05/2010]](/images/29000/29009.jpg "Birkhill")
![Class D49 no 246 <I>Morayshire</I> with a train from Boness to Manuel on 6 July, first day of the SRPS 2010 summer services.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 06/07/2010]](/images/29000/29725.jpg "Boness")
![Train heating boiler and generator van no ADS70190 at Boness on 6 July 2010.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 06/07/2010]](/images/29000/29731.jpg "Boness")
![Morayshire running as LNER 246 waits at Bo'ness for train to Birkhill.<br><br>[Ian Millar 07/07/2010]](/images/60000/60938.jpg "Bo^ness")
![Crew of 246 <I>Morayshire</I> at Boness on 6 July 2010 The first day of the summer service.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 09/07/2010]](/images/29000/29740.jpg "Boness")
![0-6-0T <i>Lord Roberts</i> arriving at Bo'ness from Manuel on Saturday 14 August with 3-coach train.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/08/2010]](/images/30000/30246.jpg "Boness")
![37025 <I>Inverness TMD</I> moves forward to take over for the final run of the day from Boness on 14 August 2010.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 14/08/2010]](/images/30000/30253.jpg "Boness")
![Class 4MTT 80105 has arrived back at Bo'ness after a sojourn on the<br>
Wensleydale Railway. Here she is being shunted alongside Morayshire on 2 September 2010. She will operate this weekend then go offline for a time as her ticket will have expired.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/09/2010]](/images/30000/30522.jpg "Boness")
![Class 303 set in the yards at Boness on 4 September. The SRPS has started an appeal with the aim of constructing a large carriage shed to accommodate vehicles like this awaiting attention. [See image 10753]<br>
<br><br>[Brian Forbes 04/09/2010]](/images/30000/30561.jpg "Boness")
![The last surviving class 303 set, no 303 032, awaiting a move to new indoor accommodation, stands in the yard at Boness on 25 March 2011. The tenth anniversary of the type becoming extinct in mainline service will occur in December of next year.<br>
<br><br>[John Yellowlees 25/03/2011]](/images/33000/33344.jpg "Boness")
![Britain's last splitting distant signal, obtained in the wake of the Larbert resignalling project and re-erected at Boness. Seen here at the SRPS site in March 2011. [See image 9268] <br>
<br><br>[John Yellowlees 25/03/2011]](/images/33000/33351.jpg "Boness")
![Scene in the yard at Boness on Saturday 9 April 2011.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 09/04/2011]](/images/33000/33587.jpg "Boness")
![Preserved Swindon class 126 DMU in the yard at Boness on 9 April 2011. These units first appeared on Edinburgh - Glasgow services in 1957, operating from Leith Central depot, with later additions to the fleet appearing in Ayrshire in 1959. The last scheduled 126 services operated in early 1983. [See image 31786]. <br><br>[John Yellowlees 09/04/2011]](/images/33000/33604.jpg "Boness")
![Scene at the Boness and Kinneil terminus at Manuel on Saturday 9 April 2011 with 27001 about to return having run round its train from Boness. <br><br>[John Yellowlees 09/04/2011]](/images/33000/33637.jpg "Manuel")
![NCB no 1 getting excited at Birkhill on 12 April before heading to Manuel [see image 33635]. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 12/04/2011]](/images/33000/33620.jpg "Birkhill")
![NCB no 1, fresh from a memorable performance at Birkhill [see image 33620] returning home to Boness on 12 April 2011 - with just a little help from 27001. (see www.blastpipe@srps.org.uk/summer2011/)<br><br>[Brian Forbes 12/04/2011]](/images/33000/33635.jpg "Boness")
![27001 leads the 14.48 from Manuel into Bo'ness on 23 April with Neilson Reid No.1 at the rear. Longannet Power Station lurks in the background.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/04/2011]](/images/33000/33774.jpg "Boness")
![A4 Pacific 60007 on shed at Bo'ness on 23 April, with 0-6-0T No.1 taking water.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/04/2011]](/images/33000/33789.jpg "Boness")
![27001 draws the 15.35 to Manuel away from Bo'ness station on 23 April 2011. 37025 can be seen standing in the yard in the background.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/04/2011]](/images/33000/33810.jpg "Boness")
![Andrew Barclay 0-6-0T <I>Braeriach</I> alongside the locomotive shed shed on 21 July 2011. The former Wemyss Private Railway locomotive is on loan from the Strathspey Railway.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/07/2011]](/images/34000/34959.jpg "Boness")
![GNSR 4-4-0 Gordon Highlander standing alongside Midland Railway Compound 1000 inside the Scottish Railway Exhibition at Boness on 21 July 2011.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/07/2011]](/images/34000/34979.jpg "Boness")
![The 14.05 train for Manuel about to depart from Boness on 21 July behind Barclay 0-6-0T <I>Braeriach</I>, currently on loan from The Strathspey Railway.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/07/2011]](/images/34000/34982.jpg "Boness")
![WD 75254 (latterly NCB No 7 of Comrie Colliery), Bagnall 2777 of 1945, leaves Bo'ness with the 12.15 to Manuel on 9 April. [See image 25999]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 09/04/2012]](/images/38000/38330.jpg "Boness")
![Ex-LNER D49 no 246 <I>Morayshire</I> complete with teak carriages at SRPS Bo'ness on Sunday 3 June.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 03/06/2012]](/images/39000/39092.jpg "Boness")
![BR 20020 shunts empty stock at SRPS Bo'ness, having worked the last service of the day on 8 July 2012.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 08/07/2012]](/images/39000/39577.jpg "Boness")
![View from a hilltop location showing a quiet Boness Stn and Signalbox. <br><br>[Colin Harkins 12/03/2013]](/images/42000/42344.jpg "Boness")
![A rainy day at Bo'ness on July 28th as a Swindon class 126 DMU leaves for Manuel during the SRPS diesel gala.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/07/2013]](/images/43000/43968.jpg "Boness")
![249 <I>Morayshire</I> heading west from Bo'ness on 6 August with the 14.05 to Manuel.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/08/2013]](/images/44000/44102.jpg "Boness")
![D49 no 246 <I>Morayshire</I> at rest at Bo'ness on 6 August 2013.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/08/2013]](/images/44000/44112.jpg "Boness")
![27001 is adding the LNER teak set to the service train at Boness on 28 September 2013 to accommodate a wedding party.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 28/09/2013]](/images/45000/45279.jpg "Boness")
![GNR N2 1744 at Boness on 20 October, about to leave with the 11.06 to Manuel.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/10/2013]](/images/45000/45039.jpg "Boness")
![NCB steam at Boness on 20 October 2013. The Prestongrange Society's No 6 (Andrew Barclay 2047 of 1937) which latterly worked at Kinneil Colliery and resident Neilson Reid No 1 on shed.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/10/2013]](/images/45000/45048.jpg "Boness")
![GNR N2 1744 nearing Manuel on 20 October with a train from Boness.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/10/2013]](/images/45000/45052.jpg "Manuel High Level")
![An inbound train runs into Boness on 12 October hauled by WD Austerity tank 75254. On the right is N2 1744, waiting in the bay platform with the 11.06 to Manuel.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/10/2013]](/images/45000/45065.jpg "Boness")
![The 13.30 <I>Santa's Polar Express</I> nears Kinneil behind D49 <I>Morayshire</I> on 15 December.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 15/12/2013]](/images/45000/45644.jpg "Kinneil")
![47643 brings up the rear of the SRPS 13.30 Bo'ness - <i>North Pole</i> service on 16 December, with 246 <I>Morayshire</I> drawing away from the Kinneil stop.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 16/12/2013]](/images/45000/45660.jpg "Kinneil")
![DC Rail 56312 waits for the signal to move into the loco sidings at Boness on 29 December.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/12/2013]](/images/45000/45778.jpg "Boness")
![Colas 56105 and home-based 47643 pull away from Boness on 29 December with the 11.30 train to Manuel.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/12/2013]](/images/45000/45788.jpg "Boness")
![Newly restored 37401 <I>Mary Queen of Scots</I> leads a train into Boness on 29 December, with 47643 and 56105 on the rear.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/12/2013]](/images/45000/45795.jpg "Boness")
![47643 leaves Boness with the 12.30 to Manuel on 29 December 2013.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/12/2013]](/images/45000/45815.jpg "Boness")
![The boiler of Hunslet austerity 3818 of 1954, formerly of Comrie Colliery, Fife, undergoes a steam test at Boness on 29 December.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/12/2013]](/images/45000/45823.jpg "Boness")
![26038 on an SRPS <I>'Thomas'</I> special near the B'oness terminus on 4 May. 62712 <I>Morayshire</I> is on the other end of the train.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 04/05/2014]](/images/47000/47234.jpg "Boness")
![D49 62712 <I>Morayshire</I> with a <I>Thomas</I> special near the Bo'ness terminus on 4 May 2014 [see image 47234].<br><br>[Bill Roberton 04/05/2014]](/images/47000/47247.jpg "Boness")
![Midland Compound 1000 in the shed yard at Bo'ness on 11 May 2014. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 11/05/2014]](/images/47000/47287.jpg "Boness")
![Resident shunter D3558 with Colas 56094 taking a weekend break at Bo'ness on 11 May.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 11/05/2014]](/images/47000/47327.jpg "Boness")
![62712 <I>Morayshire</I> leaves Bo'ness with the 14.05 to Manuel on 11 May 2014.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 11/05/2014]](/images/47000/47335.jpg "Boness")
![D49 <I>Morayshire</I> being coaled after the last train of the day at Boness on 25 August 2014.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/08/2014]](/images/48000/48478.jpg "Boness")
![Having spent the weekend at Bo'ness, Colas 56094 leaves on 25 August to return to main line duties. The signalman is about to hand over the token. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/08/2014]](/images/48000/48487.jpg "Boness")
![A preserved hybrid class 303 in the yard at Bo'ness on 25 August 2014. [See image 10753] <br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/08/2014]](/images/48000/48497.jpg "Boness")
![D49 62712 <I>Morayshire</I> awaiting departure from Bo'ness with the 15.35 to Manuel, on 26 October.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 26/10/2014]](/images/49000/49245.jpg "Boness")
![Deltic 55022 <I>Royal Scots Grey</I> departs Bo'ness on 27 December with the 12.30 to Manuel.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/12/2014]](/images/49000/49876.jpg "Boness")
![Devon & Cornwall Railways 31601 and resident 26038 await their turn at Bo'ness on 27 December.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/12/2014]](/images/49000/49883.jpg "Boness")
![The Bo'ness Diesel Gala on 27 December sees Deltic 55022 bringing up the rear of an arrival from Manuel. In the background DCR 31601 and 26038 wait to take over.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/12/2014]](/images/49000/49897.jpg "Boness")
![Glasgow Subway car 55 on display at SRPS Bo'ness on 6 April, a new exhibit.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/04/2015]](/images/50000/50892.jpg "Boness")
![NBL-built 8F 2-8-0 TCDD no.45170 inside the Railway Museum at Bo'ness on 6 April. Still in Turkish Railways condition it is hoped to restore the loco to mainline running order.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/04/2015]](/images/50000/50915.jpg "Boness")
![Ex-NCB Comrie Colliery no.19 (Hunslet 3818 of 1954) arrives at Bo'ness on 6 April with a service from Manuel. In the background is the doomed Longannet Power Station.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/04/2015]](/images/50000/50927.jpg "Boness")
![62712 <I>'Morayshire'</I> brews up at Bo'ness on 19 July ready for the 14.10 departure to Manuel. [See image 40517]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 19/07/2015]](/images/52000/52017.jpg "Boness")
![Preserved 40106 passes Bo'ness distant signal with the 16.00 to Manuel on 26 July 2015.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 26/07/2015]](/images/52000/52085.jpg "Boness")
![Devon & Cornwall Railways 31601 brings up the rear of a train from Manuel arriving at Bo'ness on 26 July 2015, passing D2767 in the bay platform.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 26/07/2015]](/images/52000/52093.jpg "Boness")
![An immaculate 40106 poses by the goods shed at Bo'ness on 26 July 2015.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 26/07/2015]](/images/52000/52104.jpg "Boness")
![<I>That'll be D2767 then...</I> The NBL-built former BR shunter at Bo'ness on 26 July 2015.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 26/07/2015]](/images/52000/52125.jpg "Boness")
![The Swindon Class 126, Britain's only surviving first-generation inter-city DMU, photographed on 29 August 2015 at SRPS Bo'ness.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 29/08/2015]](/images/52000/52409.jpg "Boness")
![Interior of Bo'ness signal box on 29 August 2015, with an Austerity 0-6-0 tank passing.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 29/08/2015]](/images/52000/52444.jpg "Boness")
![Furness Railway 0-4-0 No 20, (Sharp Stewart, 1863) the oldest working standard gauge steam locomotive in the world, puffs around the shedyard at Bo'ness in anticipation of appearing in the 2015 BKR Steam Gala.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/10/2015]](/images/53000/53005.jpg "Boness")
![Caledonian Sleeper loco 73966 makes a guest appearance at the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway's Winter Gala on 3 January, backing on to the 12.30 to Manuel.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 03/01/2016]](/images/53000/53795.jpg "Boness")
![73966 and 73967, both gleaming, on a visit to Bo'ness in January of 2016.<br><br>[Jeffray Wotherspoon 03/01/2016]](/images/57000/57243.jpg "Bo^ness")
![NCB Fife Area No.19 (Hunslet 3818 of 1954) moves off shed on 20 March, the first weekend of the season. In the background is the stock for the Royal Scotsman, recently arrived from Carnforth.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/03/2016]](/images/54000/54538.jpg "Boness")
![60103 propelling empty stock to Manuel on 15 May.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 15/05/2016]](/images/55000/55118.jpg "Manuel")
![The last mainline lower quadrant removed from Stirling in 2000 is now on display at Bo'ness.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 04/06/2016]](/images/55000/55408.jpg "Boness")
![Scotland's last splitting distant from Larbert now at Bo'ness. This was formerly located at the north end of the station and illustrated whether, at Larbert Junction, the train would go left, to Falkirk and Edinburgh, or right, to Greenhill and Glasgow or the south. [See image 9268] showing the signal in its original position.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 05/06/2016]](/images/55000/55420.jpg "Boness")
![Penzance, Plymouth or Weston-Super-Mare in the early 1970's? Holiday makers and enthusiasts alike hurry to board their first ever experience of a prototype HST - departing Bo'ness, July 23rd 2016!<br><br>[Clive Meredith 23/07/2016]](/images/56000/56027.jpg "Boness")
![The station you can't leave as it has no public access. NCB No 19 has arrived from Bo'ness with the 14.10. It will run round and go back with, we hope, all the passengers it arrived with. Less leisurely trains speed past on the EGML behind me. Manuel [1st] was slightly further east.<br><br>[David Panton 03/09/2016]](/images/56000/56495.jpg "Manuel")
![The signalling board for Glasgow Queen Street box from the period it was controlled from Cowlairs. Both lines out are bidirectional, but 'other line' running is rare (meaning I've never seen it). The board is now on display in the Scottish Museum of Railways<br><br>[David Panton 03/09/2016]](/images/56000/56532.jpg "Boness")
![In terms of football rivalry (like I care) these two names should never be seen together but here in the museum all that is put aside. These are name signs from signal boxes (boxboards, in the railwayana world). The Easter Road one can be seen in situ in [see image 35868] where the box dominates the platform! Photographed 03/09/2016.<br><br>[David Panton 03/09/2016]](/images/57000/57214.jpg "Bo^ness")
![Newly arrived NRM-owned class AL4 electric, Built by the North British Locomotive Company, Glasgow in 1960.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 04/10/2016]](/images/57000/57432.jpg "Bo^ness")
![Class 303 emu adjacent to the museum building at Bo'ness.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 04/10/2016]](/images/57000/57459.jpg "Bo^ness")
![NBL products of 1942 and 1960 face each other in the Scottish Railway Museum (Stanier 8F and AL4 electric).<br><br>[Bill Roberton 04/10/2016]](/images/57000/57467.jpg "Bo^ness")
![On-loan DRS 37703 enters Bo'ness with the closed Longannet Power Station in the background. Due to a breach in the BKR by pipeline work, trains were being topped and tailed; on this occasion NCB no.19 brought up the rear.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 04/10/2016]](/images/57000/57472.jpg "Bo^ness")
![61994 The Great Marquis On a two year static loan from John Cameron pending construction of his museum in Fife.<br><br>[Douglas McPherson //2017]](/images/61000/61323.jpg "Boness")
![37214 has been purchased from West coast railways as a spares donor for 37261 currently under overhaul by the Scottish 37 group. It has some Scottish history having once been allocated to the Inverness Edinburgh sleeper pool.<br><br>[Douglas McPherson //2017]](/images/61000/61510.jpg "Boness")
![47643 nears Bo'ness with the last train of the day.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 02/04/2017]](/images/58000/58694.jpg "Bo^ness")
![Former NCB No.7 (Bagnall 2777 of 1945) masquerading as J94 68007 at Bo'ness. 2 April.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 02/04/2017]](/images/58000/58856.jpg "Bo^ness")
![Nice lamps and signal posts in place.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 07/05/2017]](/images/59000/59459.jpg "Birkhill")
![NCB no.19 (Hunslet 3818 of 1954) leaves Bo'ness with the 12.10 to Manuel, on 1 August.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 01/08/2017]](/images/60000/60305.jpg "Bo^ness")
![The view towards the station throat at Boness. Longannet is still a feature across the firth but not for much longer. 22nd August 2017<br>
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<br><br>[John Yellowlees 22/08/2017]](/images/60000/60628.jpg "Boness")
![The Furness Railway Trust's GWR 0-6-2T 5643 is a guest at the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway and scheduled to operate during the Steam Gala on 20-23 October 2017. Seen here running round the 10.45 from Bo'ness at Manuel on 14th October 2017 with 170395 passing on the E&G main line.<br>
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<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/10/2017]](/images/61000/61210.jpg "Manuel")
![GWR 0-6-2T 5643, owned by the Furness Railway trust, starts away from Bo'ness with the 1210hrs to Manuel on 14th October 2017. This was an early run for the loco which will be the star guest at the Autumn Steam Gala. <br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/10/2017]](/images/61000/61270.jpg "Bo^ness")
![The Furness Railway Trust's GWR 0-6-2T 5643 guested at the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway Steam Gala on 20-23 October 2017. Here the interloper takes water at Bo'ness with resident <I>Austerity</I> 0-6-0ST NCB No.19 alongside while working B&KR trains on the weekend prior to the gala.<br>
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<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/10/2017]](/images/61000/61454.jpg "Bo^ness")
![Work is on going to build a second platform at Birkhill on the B&KR on 07/02/18. The final pours for the main platform were completed. The platform is being built in concrete using complex shuttering following Caledonian railway tradition.<br><br>[Douglas McPherson 07/02/2018]](/images/63000/63209.jpg "Birkhill")
![Work was on going to build a second platform at Birkhill on the B&KR on 07-02-18. The final pours for the main platform were completed. The platform is being built in concrete using complex shuttering following Caledonian railway tradition.<br><br>[Douglas McPherson 07/02/2018]](/images/63000/63228.jpg "Birkhill")
![The last-surviving BR inter-city DMU will be in operation at Bo'ness tomorrow (the 11th of March).<br><br>[John Yellowlees 10/03/2018]](/images/63000/63156.jpg "Boness")
![Platform scene at Birkhill in March 2018.<br>
<br><br>[John Yellowlees 10/03/2018]](/images/63000/63333.jpg "Birkhill")
![John Cameron's K4 61994 <I>The Great Marquess</I>, seen inside the shed at Boness in March 2018. <br>
<br><br>[John Yellowlees 10/03/2018]](/images/63000/63412.jpg "Bo^ness")
