MartinWales Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Planning a small cameo layout set in Tayside and having been enchanted by several photos of a 24/1 and 26's hauling a Thompson coach at Grandtully on the Aberfeldy branch , I am looking to find any shots of the car park/goods shed side of the structure. A protracted search through my library has revealed nothing! Can anyone help? Mods-please feel free to move this to another heading Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted June 7, 2020 Share Posted June 7, 2020 Have you tried the Highland Railway Society? Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted June 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 7, 2020 (edited) The Canmore site has details of 4 pictures of Grandtully but unfortunately they're not digitised yet. https://canmore.org.uk/site/166987/grandtully-station?display=collection (States that HES online services are still available at the moment - so you can purchase the images but I'm not sure if you can preview them. From a quick look, digital images are £9.90 inc. VAT each) I thought Ernie Brack might have something (or Flickr in general) - there are pics but either from the road bridge or the platform, none from the other side. Edited June 7, 2020 by keefer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted June 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 7, 2020 More images, but still nothing of the rear of the station building! https://www.ambaile.org.uk/?service=search&action=do_advanced_search&language=en&form_name=advancedSearch&caption=&location=&county=&decade=&creator=&Contributor=&date=&Collection=Highland Railway Society - Stations&resource_type_1=&resource_type_2=&resource_type_3=&qw=Grandtully&search_within=Grandtully Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinWales Posted June 7, 2020 Author Share Posted June 7, 2020 2 minutes ago, keefer said: More images, but still nothing of the rear of the station building! https://www.ambaile.org.uk/?service=search&action=do_advanced_search&language=en&form_name=advancedSearch&caption=&location=&county=&decade=&creator=&Contributor=&date=&Collection=Highland Railway Society - Stations&resource_type_1=&resource_type_2=&resource_type_3=&qw=Grandtully&search_within=Grandtully Thanks! That's the site I checked first! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LochMaree Posted June 8, 2020 Share Posted June 8, 2020 The Highland Railway Society has a few images of Grandtully (most, if not all, are on Am Baile), but none show the station yard side. Alisdair Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweenyTod1 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 (edited) There is a book all about the Aberfeldy branch line which I think has a couple of shots that might be useful. Coincidently, my older grandson attends Grantully school and the the younger on starts there in August, The school building is quite close to where the station used to be. I'll be quite happy to do a field search for you (and myself) when I get up there from the sunny South. I have been researching Dewers site as a potential project, so that's why I am doubly interested in the branch. Assuming I can get past Hadrian's Wall I hope to travel at the end of this month, subject to the approval of "Queen Nicola". I will have a search to locate the book, but also in this section are the posts I was involved with about my quest for info. The records office in Edinburgh has lot of maps/photos etc. that you would find useful. Let me know if I can assist and good luck with your project. My post are in the Distilleries section, page 3. Tod Edited July 5, 2020 by SweenyTod1 advice added Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweenyTod1 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 It was the National Library of Scotland where you can find the maps/photos. They are side pictures with the OS map on the left and a modern aerial photo on the right. Very useful indeed to see where things were historically and areas where you can walk today to see evidence of groundworks etc. Bing Hybrid, NN 91564 53193 is a reference on the photo. Tod Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweenyTod1 Posted July 5, 2020 Share Posted July 5, 2020 I finally "found" the missing book. It's title, " Aberfeldy's Railway" by C J Stewart, A Highland Railway Society publication, ISBN: 978 0 954856 8. As suggested by others. the view from the road over bridge shows the station side, but with magnification, a lot of detail can be seen. Peco do a nice HR signal cabin, one of which can be seen at the yard throat. Using that photo with the map above, you can see what goes where. I wish you well with this interesting layout. If I ever get mine into reality, we could join them together? Then there's Ballingluig junction with its two viaducts ( one still survives) and Aberfeldy itself!!!!. Even with missing out the halts in between, what a cracking layout that would be!!! However, it will stay in my head for the time being...................? Tod Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sng7 Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 The book "Steam Album Volume Three Perthshire" by the Angus Railway Group has an image from the railway bridge. From the description it could very well be the one mentioned above as it clearly shows the station building (end and platform side), the goods yard and the signal box. There is also a good image on railscot here. Please share if you build this, it is somewhere i have though about modelling before so it would be very interesting to see someone do it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corrour Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 Martin this gives some scaled details of Grandtully layout. kind regards, Robert 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
56038 Posted August 31, 2020 Share Posted August 31, 2020 There’s a few photos on Ernies site. Worth a look? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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