FarrMan Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 2 hours ago, jollysmart said: Pitlochry this time, I remember being there in the early 70's when everything was blue. Yes. It can get quite cold in the Highlands, even the Perthshire Highlands! 1 hour ago, Clive Mortimore said: Newtonmoor, I was going to build a model of it. Simple enough now - One line, one platform, and a timber yard. Lloyd 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUTLER2579 Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 Pitlochry please Gilbert. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted September 11, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 11, 2020 I am uneasy about voting in these polls when I really don't know the line at all well. I have been all the way to Thurso by train, but 53 years ago. But as recently as early 1998 I did travel to Aviemore, descending from the sleeper for a weekend walking with others, during which I believe I "bagged" 5 Munros to add to the one - Ben Nevis - I had strolled up the previous year. So Aviemore, please Sir. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzer Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 11 hours ago, St Enodoc said: My old girlfriend will be chuffed. What about your young girlfriend, what does she think ? 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simontaylor484 Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 Inverness Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted September 11, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 11, 2020 Inverness here too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 11, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 11, 2020 From the safety of Platform 2, we can watch Persimmon coasting towards the end of the PSR. Followed a little while later by 64177, on its way to do the afternoon shift on the Ramsey branch. 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodcock29 Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 Inverness for me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 G'Day Folks Inverness for me, been there twice, once in February, 3' of snow and boy was it cold, second time was June, bit warmer. manna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 12, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 12, 2020 13 hours ago, jollysmart said: Pitlochry this time, I remember being there in the early 70's when everything was blue. Wot, everything? 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 12, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 12, 2020 7 hours ago, jazzer said: What about your young girlfriend, what does she think ? She's too young to care... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Hawkins Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 Inverness for me as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post great northern Posted September 12, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted September 12, 2020 The 9.47 is indeed closely followed by the main train, which will stop here, though the relief didn't. Haulage is by what I have seen described elsewhere as "the dregs of Gateshead", filthy 60070. 28 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 12, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 12, 2020 Another close vote, decided by the last one, which came in just four minutes before I started the count. Inverness 5 Pitlochry 4. I shall not be difficult, as it is a lovely sunny day, but is Inverness a wayside station? I've never been there, as blue doen't suit me. Alright, carry on from Inverness, up to where you fall off if you like, but also across to Kyle, which doesn't count, being a terminus which has already won. Then hop down to Fort William, and look at wayside stations from there to Glasgow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted September 12, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 12, 2020 Strome Ferry. Brighton MRC built a 00 model years ago, which I wired up. All was well until it went to its first exhibition, when there was a dead short. Only after hours of investigation did someone discover that a three-rail wagon had been placed in one of the sidings. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 Inverness is a terminus as well, and with 7 platforms, a loco shed and Lochgorm works, hardly a wayside station. I want a recount! Lloyd 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 So many to choose from again in today's poll, but I think that I will go for Georgemas Junction, where the Wick (pronounced 'Wuck') and Thurso portions split. Certainly wayside as there is no community there. Also it has just had a new lease of life, as timber is now loaded there for a thrice weekly train to Inverness, possibly to be extended to Dalcross, to supply the OSB (Oriented Strand Board) plant nearby. I used to visit it when staying in Halkirk some nearly 40 years ago. Lloyd 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 31A Posted September 12, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted September 12, 2020 12 minutes ago, great northern said: I shall not be difficult, as it is a lovely sunny day, but is Inverness a wayside station? I've never been there, as blue doen't suit me. Oops sorry I must have overlooked the "wayside station" part of the question - no it certainly isn't! For the next poll, avoiding termini I'll go for Helmsdale; still quite an intact station and a passing place but in its heyday had a small depot. Also the place where on my first visit to the far North mail bags were being off loaded from the northbound train by the doors on the non-platform side of the BG and thrown across to where the postmen were waiting on the Up platform! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarrMan Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 1 minute ago, 31A said: For the next poll, avoiding termini I'll go for Helmsdale; still quite an intact station and a passing place but in its heyday had a small depot. Also the place where on my first visit to the far North mail bags were being off loaded from the northbound train by the doors on the non-platform side of the BG and thrown across to where the postmen were waiting on the Up platform! Helmsdale also has the distinction of having had an employee whose son was to become Lord Chancellor (Lord MacKay). That is why he was affectionately known there as 'The shunter's loon'. Lloyd 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 I will go with Achnasheen on the Kyle line. Attached are pictures of it last Sunday. Achnasheen is described as a junction, not of the railway but of the roads giving access north and west. As such it was an important place for the distribution of goods and mail. Also most Kyle line trains crossed there. There used to be a hotel on the platform next to the station building sadly lost to fire in the 1980's. Now there just a square of lawn where the hotel used to be. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted September 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 12, 2020 How about The Mound, where I think a restaurant car was detached from down trains, attached to up ones? I like stations where there is some action, not just passing trains. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Bell Posted September 12, 2020 Share Posted September 12, 2020 The Mound was a lovely station and not 5 miles from where i am sitting now. You are right about the dining car,which for a while was an ex pullman car and also at one time an exLNWR coach. Also where else could you see ex South Wales pannier tanks and ex Highland stock and infrastucture in the same place. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium great northern Posted September 12, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted September 12, 2020 2 hours ago, FarrMan said: Inverness is a terminus as well, and with 7 platforms, a loco shed and Lochgorm works, hardly a wayside station. I want a recount! Lloyd The problem is though Lloyd that I didn't actually specify wayside station, assuming everyone would remember that was the current category. So the fault is mine for being idle, and not wanting to type a couple of extra words. Hoist by my own whatsit, I'm afraid. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Pilotman Posted September 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 12, 2020 (edited) I was tempted to go for this: but will choose Corrour on the West Highland line. A. Wainwright wrote, “Rannoch Moor is a desolation fashioned by Nature and right well has she succeeded.” Not many trains pass by but that matters not at all; the wild beauty of the place is unlike anywhere else. Edited September 12, 2020 by Western Aviator 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted September 12, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 12, 2020 I'm going for Georgemas Junction. David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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