8 Images released on Friday 30/08/2024

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Whitrigg: Whitrigg showing the cottage and office building by the level crossing in 2002. The station platform and waiting room were further off to the left. The cottage has since been substantially rebuilt.

Solway Junction Railway
Mike Shannon [/03/2002]


Glenfinnan Viaduct: Network Rail and Forestry and Land Scotland complete £300k Glenfinnan biodiversity project. A two-year industry-leading pilot project to enhance the natural habitat near the iconic Glenfinnan viaduct is now complete.

Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway)
Network Rail [/08/2024]


Dundee: If I recall correctly, I first visited Tay Bridge station in 1977. 47 years later, I saw my first freight train at this location; patience is a virtue. For the detail minded, this is Colas Rail 70812 on an Oxwellmains to Craiginches working on 31st July; we also saw it on its way home that evening.

Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway)
Ken Strachan [31/07/2024]


Crianlarich Lower: Crianlarich Lower, looking towards Killin Junction, in 1975. Timber traffic ceased here in 1993.

Callander and Oban Railway
John Clark [//1975]


Heatley and Warburton: The station house at Heatley and Warburton, on the Ditton Junction to Skelton line, looking east towards Dunham Massey on 15th August 2024. From the site of the level crossing, the old station building can just be seen behind the station house. The last passenger trains called here in October 1962 but freight continued. In the early 1980s there were still sixty trains a day using this line but it closed in 1985 when expensive repairs were required to the bridge over the Manchester Ship Canal. The Trans-Pennine Trail now uses the old trackbed along this stretch.

Warrington and Stockport Railway
Mark Bartlett [15/08/2024]


Kenmore Pier: A postcard view of SS Lady of the Lake leaving Kenmore Pier. This steamer was introduced on Loch Tay in 1882, just a few years before the Killin Railway opened in 1886. The vessel was assembled at Kenmore having been manufactured by Anderson & Lyall of Govan. For most of her life she was operated by the Loch Tay Steamboat Company Ltd founded by the Earl of Breadalbane. From 1922 the concern was taken over by the Caledonian Railway. She continued operating until 1929 and was broken up at Kenmore. TSS Queen of the Lake continued on the loch until 1939 when the Second World War started.

Piers, Slips and Staiths
Ewan Crawford Collection [//]


Loch Tay: This view looks towards the Killin Railway's Loch Tay terminus, the site of the pier (of which little remains) and locomotive shed at the south west end of Loch Tay. Passenger and goods steamers ran from the pier (Killin Pier was the name of the pier by Loch Tay station) north east up Loch Tay calling at Lawers, Ardeonaig, Ardtalnaig, Fearnan and Kenmore piers.

Killin Railway
Ewan Crawford [07/11/2023]


Eastfield Shed: Ex North British Railway 0-6-0 (BR Class J37) is resting at Eastfield Shed pondering its future on 30 June 1963.

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Colin Kirkwood [30/06/1963]