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Funnily enough, I intended to drop Murray a line to see what memories he has of the place, pre & post their premises, and also in case he has any photos of how it was before they moved there. Bruce has furnished me with a photo of the clock they have - which I've always been in awe of whenever I've visited them. Roy liked his imperial poster sizes - I seem to recall him mentioning quad and double crown sizes on several occasions!

Would love one please, Mac. I was looking at the NLS maps but couldn't find a 25" to the mile one with the sidings at Lochpark. I ended up with a lower scale version that was pretty rubbish, and showed virtually no detail. Anything you have for articles always very welcome - cheers! All well thanks, hope you and yours are as well. My email addresses are all working, so whichever you send to should see them arrive here ok.

I'm currently compiling an article about Lochpark and the concrete casting facility for a future issue of The Waverley - this post popped up on one of my 'net trawls!

Let's get the ball rolling again. Several new pics have appeared on Ernie's Flickr account recently, here's just a few of them. Nice to see the Border Counties stub at Riccarton being used for shunting.

The original Whitrope 'box (photo from my collection), note the nameboard without "siding". On the right, Bogside. There's a distinct similarity in the number of windows and style of surrounds. Bogside photo from https://twitter.com/coal_legacies

Honestly not too sure, it's not something I've really studied in great detail although the old style Whitrope Siding 'box has a resemblance to that extant at Bogside.

I've never seen one from the Waverley Route or its branches, but Colin's suggestion could be worth following up with NBRSG.

Well I'm finally getting around to writing this article, only three years after first posting about it. If anyone has anything they don't mind me using in it please feel free to post up or drop me a line.

The BG on that last train was E80834, if you were after a number at all?

On behalf of Bruce McCartney I recently uploaded this footage onto my Youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF3o-JzWkGc

I'm not sure, but I don't think there was. I've attached a very basic diagram I made about twenty years ago showing distances of all signals from Whitrope Siding 'box - hopefully it's readable.

This was the Flickr site in question - pretty obviously a photograph of a photograph. There's only a small matter of copyright issues about that kind of thing. https://www.flickr.com/photos/peteredin/9328710039/in/photolist-dkLwwa-21c5yEW-dJd666-fdm5ug

By the way, the Up Main Distant that you can see part way down the train is 365 yards north of Whitrope Siding signal box.

Your Flickr site?

Looks like one of the Gerald Robinson photos he allowed WRHA to use, then someone went and photographed them on display at Whitrope and uploaded them to Flickr ... needless to say we weren't impressed!