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D5358 at Ballachulish Sept 1964.

 

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The light was dreadful, see the cloud level in the background. I don't think it was actually raining as I probably wouldn't have stopped for the shot. I was on a fortnight cycling tour of the West Highlands and it rained every day except the first and last. We travelled there and back by train.

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Wet? Scottish? I can do those!

 

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303 on a Wemyss Bay service passing the site of Stoneybrae Junction, at the country end of Paisley Gilmour St Station. Taken from the old loading bank, then in use as a car park.

 

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Ian

 

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Wet? Scottish? I can do those!

 

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303 on a Wemyss Bay service passing the site of Stoneybrae Junction, at the country end of Paisley Gilmour St Station. Taken from the old loading bank, then in use as a car park.

 

Regards

 

Ian

 

Ian, Stoneybrae wasn't a junction. The only running connections between the lines to Elderslie and St. James were at Wallneuk Junction at the Glasgow end of Gilmour Street and at Arkleston Juntion further east. I believe there was, at one time, a siding between the lines at Stoneybrae, accessible from either, but that was all. (I have a very vague memory of what I think was a WD sitting in it , many years ago.)

 

If I remember correctly, Stoneybrae had two frames, one for the ex-Caley lines and one for the ex-G&SW lines.

 

The weather in this next picture might not look too bad, but it was taken after the 'great freeze' of 1962-3 had set in. In the week I took it, I actually walked on the frozen River Doon. Withdrawn 55264 sits at Newton on Ayr station December 31, 1962:

 

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Some blue at Peak Forest.

 

37716 arriving from Crewe LNWR to join 56113 on shunting duties at Peak Forest. Taken yesterday.

 

2018 Railways eh?

 

More Blue

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4498 Sir Nigel Gresley in Garter Blue at Salisbury, 19/10/86, preparing to work The Blackmore Vale Express:

 

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and later, out on the line somewhere west of Wilton, featuring several photters and my trusty Sun Alpine (1963 vintage) that recently went to the Great Bike Shed in The Sky.

 

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