Jim49 Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Just as well it was a slow speed derailment, otherwise it would have been B1 91119 being re-railed. Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Just as well it was a slow speed derailment, otherwise it would have been B1 91119 being re-railed. Jim As it ran in Oz TOPS, as it were Did I imagine it, or have we also seen something wrong like a Class 46 off-roading at this location, sent up the branch without a second thought for the RA...? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Mystic 'Chard strikes again, predicting a Railbrit contribution: http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=35373 also in the recent Julian Holland book on "Lost Local Lines" As I said to MaxStafford the other night, I do quite fancy Greenlaw as a prototype, with/without Peak in the ballast. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 I don't know about a Peak at Greenlaw. Perhaps you're thinking of the EE Type 4 that ran out of Tweedmouth Yard, down the dock branch to the end of the switchback. A place known locally as the 'Goody Patchy'! Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 I think it's time for this other recent RailScot addition. Nice Jag! http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=35377 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Mystic 'Chard strikes again, predicting a Railbrit contribution: http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=35373 also in the recent Julian Holland book on "Lost Local Lines" As I said to MaxStafford the other night, I do quite fancy Greenlaw as a prototype, with/without Peak in the ballast. I don't know about a Peak at Greenlaw. Perhaps you're thinking of the EE Type 4 that ran out of Tweedmouth Yard, down the dock branch to the end of the switchback. A place known locally as the 'Goody Patchy'! Dave. Just mentioned Greenlaw to muddy the waters Dave, I only meant the Peak in the linked picture. At Duns, which is also in the borders, but is not Greenlaw, I know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62440 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 End of the line at Greenlaw, literally - July 1965 - from the cab of the last freight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Another moment of vintage Border Country gold from the maestro himself. Thanks Bruce, we're so lucky you were out there with your trusty Velocette and camera! Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 A real epitaph photo that one. Fortunately, some branch freight action was to outlive Greenlaw. And if that's a cue for other photos, so be it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62440 Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 OK, I can take a hint. Kelso March 1968. Bruce Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted August 27, 2011 Share Posted August 27, 2011 Many thanks Mr Mac, that is precisely what the physician requested From your Kelso collection this is possibly the loneliest, with a real pervading sense of emptiness, whereas the others have a sense of occasion, with the Kelso Lad headboard &c. For those not familiar with the human interest theme of the end of the Kelso operations (I like to think we have new readers occasionally!) please follow this link, which stirs something in me that can't be put into words: http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=17963 Also, on the branches, here's another of our popular sixteen-wheeler doing its off-roading http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=35405 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 I've been trying to determine the exact location of the station at Kelso. From maps ans surviving buildings I conclude that the modern section of the A698 passes though the site now next to where the new Sainsburys is being built. Anybody confirm or deny this one please? Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 The 'Old_maps' website shows the station about where Station Road crosses the A698. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Well preserved Innerleithen, from contemporary Railscot sources: http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=35414 I spent some time with Kelso then and now mapping open in the browser earlier. Far from what I recall in the books of before and after, which feature a Lada garage on the station yard, and the Station Road overbridge in situ, everything has been subsumed under the featureless generic by-pass. There's a Proton/ Kia dealer I think, pretty much on the spot where the station would have been. There's a minor hump in the road, but it looks much smoothed compared to the railway's era, and I suspect it owes little or nothing to the topography of its backstory. Kelso station - eradicated from the built envirionment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
62440 Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 This may help a little. Pretty sure you can match up the windows and the brickwork from my 1968 photo and with Google's one. I'm almost sure that the running-in sign was just on the Roxburgh Junction side of the road bridge. On a Sunday School Excursion to Berwick from Hawick, our carriage halted under the bridge and I remember seeing this huge sign. Bruce Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Thanks again Bruce. I was pretty certain that it was the building seen in the background to so many photos. I've always had a soft spot for Kelso. A particularly sad loss in this case. Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Frozen in the mind's eye with its amenities intact, not for Kelso the indignity of a pre-cast single platform with tatty bus shelter, at the end of a long plain siding cut-back to 250m from the original station site, so it could be released by the Property Board to build yet another Morrisons.* * substitute name of generic supermarket chain here Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fegguk Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 The road junction as per the photo above has just been replaced by a roundbout, leading the the new sainsburys supermarket. All that remains is a piece of waste ground, opposite Ken Hope's Garage, that was part of the goods yard which for some reason has never been developed. In the Berwick direction the embankment was truncated by the bypass a path goes from there to sprouston. Towards Roxburgh the bypass follows the route. Beyond where the road over bridge was, the cutting has been filled and is impassable. Beyond this blockage, after a detour, you can walk all the way to Roxburgh over the only remaining teviot viaduct. This and its embankment is still a very impresive structure with skew arches across the river and plain arches either side. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Duns, 77xxx mogul: http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=35451 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Lovely picture that, Jamie. You even managed to make a tenuous link with the Sou'West by way of the motive power! I think this loco is one of those briefly domiciled at 52D though! Dave. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted September 1, 2011 Share Posted September 1, 2011 Great shot, wry caption too. And it seems the new Margate brake has sneaked on stage-left, better state handrails than Pennine's example Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 In a way it's a shame to tuck the link to this excellent photo away up a Waverley offshoot, but for those of you who do get to open another wee window, enjoy this fine specimen of a true Cowans leviathan..... http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=35492 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Max Stafford Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Beast! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 Beast! Indeed. So draw deep from this chalice too: http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=35512 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fegguk Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 What will they send up the Dunse branch next a 3rd rail EMU Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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