Prototype pics- stations or routes, open & closed.

[Portchullin Tatty]

I found this set of great B/W and colour photographs (386) while "surfing" the WWW quite a few scottish stations including two of my local station Alexandria showing the signal box most of which were rescued from the bin!!

Eddie

opps the link is

 

http://www.flickr.co...157627766457597

 

Some fabulous pictures here.............anybody into things like the blue trians ought to get looking.

 

The licence royalty suggestion was rather on the punchy side me thought though.

[Bob Reid]

I used to worked in the next office to him when he worked for the P&M section in the CM&EE at Buchanan House. If he's the chance to get some cash off it well more power to his elbow and for rescuing them. If you're really interested in a particular photo I'm sure he'll oblige if you get in touch - he's used them in other sites - mainly the UrbanGlasgow one.

 

Great photo's as you say.

[roundhouse]

A couple of photos of North Berwick in 1984... if only I knew it would soon be demolished I would have taken many more.

[Rivercider]

Here are a few shots of Dingwall, early morning in June 1983.

 

The 06.40 Inverness - Wick/Thurso calls behind 37183, the Driver looks back as mail is unloaded, 18/6/83.

 

26043 approaches with the 06.55 Inverness - Kyle of Lochalsh, 18/6/83

 

26035 pauses with the 07.10 Kyle of Lochalsh - Inverness 18/6/83

 

cheers

[roundhouse]

Those shots of Dingwall bring back memoeirs of our first trip to this area in the same year, 1983.

 

We even had a game of pool and a beer in the bar o the platform at DIngwall about 9am in the morning which was generally not possible outside Scotland in those days!.

 

Ian

[Rivercider]

Some pictures taken at Dunfermline in June 1983.

 

Set 101 324 (50245, 59042, 51253) calls at Dunfermline on 11.00 Cowdenbeath - Edinburgh, 20/6/83

 

 

20219 & 20225 pass with a loaded MGR service, 20/6/83

 

 

20137 passes northbound, would this container have come from Rosyth?, 20/6/83

 

 

Set 101 312 (51237, 59542, 50138) on the 11.03 Edinburgh - Cowdenbeath, 20/6/83.

 

 

cheers

[Portchullin Tatty]

Here are a few of Tyndrum (including one of a grumpy looking son who got a whole lot worse after I had walked him across Rannoch Moor!). All taken in 2008.

 

 

If anyone wishes to reproduce these they may subject to crediting me.

[AngusDe]

Whilst looking for pics of Cowlairs for my day dream layout idea/suggestion here I came across this brilliant pic:-

 

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2356363

 

One of the few clues to the date, as the loco class lasted from 1888 untill 1966 is the 1960 electrification mast in the foreground!

 

Angus

[Wizard of the Moor]

Lovely picture, but the caption is very wrong.

 

The view is pretty much south-west from the Royston Road bridge, not north. The background feature is Blochairn Road, not the line to Sighthill Goods. The J36 is standing on the exchange sidings for the Blochairn Iron Works, the site of which is now the Fruitmarket.

 

A view looking north from the other side of the bridge is included in An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways by W. A. C. Smith.

[AngusDe]

James, thanks for that, I couldn't place the scene at all, but my exploration of the Springburn line dates from 71(ish) onwards after I'd started secondary school so I was putting that down to the site having been cleared etc.

 

Angus

 

PS Waterloo Street is a cracking layout, I took some pics around Waterloo about 6 years ago when working in Aberdeen, much to the annoyance of the groups of women standing around the street corners that early evening....

[Wizard of the Moor]

much to the annoyance of the groups of women standing around the street corners that early evening....

 

Aye, well, it's no called the Tarry Brig for nothing

[Guest stuartp]

I'd be interested if anyone can give any information about the saloon.

 

Further to John's excellent potted history of the vehicle, it finished up grounded at Gatehouse of Fleet in 1965, in use as a church. It replaced an earlier CR vehicle which was falling apart by then, and lasted until the 1970s before being broken up.

 

http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=30552

 

Somewhere I've read chapter and verse as to how it got there, but i can't recall at the moment whether it was on here, in a mag, or on one of the information boards at Creetown Museum. Suffice it to say that it cost the ScR a lot more to get it to site than the congregation paid for it.

[emac]

Some fabulous pictures here.............anybody into things like the blue trians ought to get looking.

 

The licence royalty suggestion was rather on the punchy side me thought though.

 

Mark

I emailed "bill" as I wanted to use a couple of photos of Alexandria Station and he had no problems with me using them as he said in his email

 

"I rescued them from the bin during privatisation" "Hope you and others enjoy seeing them"

 

I am using the photos for my own use and if he had; which he has'nt asked for a small fee I would gladly have paid it as these are photos I had not seen before

 

I informed Bill in my email what I wanted and how I would use the and recieved a very nice reply he was very pleased I could use the photographs as a side Bill informed me that he intends to hand the photographs into the Glasgow Transport Museum at the Riverside, as he feel there is social history with some of them.

 

Eddie

[pH]

A few photographs taken in Portsoy last week. The first three are of the second station built in the town, for the opening of the Moray Coast Railway westwards along the coast in 1884. That line was finally closed in 1968.

 

 

This station replaced Portsoy (Old), which was the terminus of the Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla Railway (later the Banffshire Railway), opened in 1859. This first station still exists as a warehouse - http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete.php?id=35666 . I did wonder if that building was railway-related, but I hadn't read anything about it before I went - the visit wasn't planned - so didn't photograph it.

 

This is the view that got me started looking for railway remains in the town:

 

 

It is the route of the Portsoy harbour branch. According to the Railscot site, it was closed in 1874 and dismantled in 1910. It had a gradient of 1 in 30. The route is now a footpath and quite obvious, apart from the bottom end, near the harbour. It runs down the east side of Portsoy (Old) station building, under the town's High Street (the bridge can be seen in the distance):

 

 

Here are views in each direction off the High Street bridge:

 

 

And a final view of the harbour end of the footpath built on the route of the branch:

 

[Jim49]

Peter, just to add to your photos, here is a shot of the old station taken a couple of years ago. It seems to be kept in good external condition and still serving a useful purpose.

The second photo is an old postcard showing the new station on the left, the signal box and the old station in the right background.

 

 

Jim

[pH]

I was in Greenock last month, and came across a few remains of what was once the western part of a large system of rails into and between the various docks, shipyards and machinery shops in the town. I vaguely remember some of these when they were still in operation, but was surprised to find any remaining signs of them.

 

These are the first ones I saw, along the dock breast at the Victoria Harbour. They were fed from both ends - from Greenock Central goods depot to the west, and down Arthur Street from Cartsdyke Junction to the east. Apart from The Victoria Harbour, these lines served Scott's yard to the east, and the East India Harbour and Custom House Quay to the west.

 

 

 

There is a short section of track still there at the end of Arthur Street - notice the change in track type:

 

 

This is the view from Arthur Street up the connection towards Cartsdyke Junction. The line between Carstdyke and Greenock Central is higher up on the left, with the Knowe Road between it and the nearer wall:

 

 

And the view back towards Arthur Street down the connection:

 

 

The line down Arthur Street passed under the Carstdyke - Greenock Central line through a skew arch. I once saw a double decker bus lose the front third of its roof against this bridge. 

 

[DOCJACOB]

A few of my own "happy snappies" to add:

 

Firstly the old goods warehouses at Waverley. Pictures taken form the end of the Suburban platforms ???when 

 

Secondly a selection from North Berwick and Drem. I suspect form circa Easter 1979 as we had an annual golf outing with the old Trustee Savings Bank and as my Dad was a member I was dragged along to play  as well.

 

Lastly another selection from the now closed route between Stanley and Forfar. I think my Dad argued it was a potential visit to Glamis Castle but some how it became a railway visit and a bridie at Sandy Sadler's bakery in Forfar. The stations visible are Forfar, Alyth Junction and Coupar Angus. I suspect it was taken around june 1982 but unsure pre or post last train 

[dvdlcs]

A few of my own "happy snappies" to add:

 

Firstly the old goods warehouses at Waverley. Pictures taken form the end of the Suburban platforms ???when 

 

Hello.

 

This must be at the southern end of Waverley (assuming you mean Edinburgh Waverley station) as the north end is in cutting on either side.

 

If this is the case, they were gone by the mid 1980s as that area - from memory - was a car park by then.

 

Hope this helps,

 

 

David.

[Graham R]

Lastly another selection from the now closed route between Stanley and Forfar....  The stations visible are Forfar, Alyth Junction and Coupar Angus.

 

Thanks for these nostalgic shots (my avatar photo is of the former Down home signal at Coupar Angus, now in a second life at Bo'ness thanks to the SRPS). The two shots of the stone building are of the rail-served granary at Eassie, rather than Alyth Junction - Eassie was the next station to the north.