Date: 14/03/2022

Relaying north east rail lines should not be excluded from Scotland's long-term transport strategy if carbon net zero objectives are to succeed.

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Relaying north east rail lines should not be excluded from Scotlands long-term transport strategy if carbon net zero objectives are to succeed.

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NBL Type 2 D6148 arrives at Ellon with a northbound train in July 1963.
Location: Ellon
Company: Formartine and Buchan Railway
/07/1963 Colin Miller

The NBL Type 2s were, for a few years following dieselisation, the staple locomotive on Buchan line trains. In this photograph, having attached a portion off the 3.20pm ex-Peterhead see image [[37410]], the 3.15pm train from Fraserburgh (from which the photograph is taken) is pulling away from Maud Junction to continue its journey south to Aberdeen. Meantime, the driver of the Peterhead train is about to rejoin his locomotive in order to carry out some shunting operations.
Location: Maud
Company: Formartine and Buchan Railway
01/05/1965 Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven)

B1 4-6-0 61134 leaving Peterhead on 4 July 1951.
Location: Peterhead
Company: Formartine and Buchan Railway
04/07/1951 G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow

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