Matador Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 Looking for inspiration post pics of Harbour end of Branch type layouts please David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
'CHARD Posted June 28, 2011 Share Posted June 28, 2011 There are several on here, I suggest you browse the Layouts section and keep your eyes open for Kylesku & The Mound and Caolisport for starters.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Portchullin Tatty Posted July 4, 2011 Share Posted July 4, 2011 On a similar note, I am looking specifically for pictures of Burghead and Inverness Harbour. I have the couple of pictures of the Caley tank at Inverness on the Ness Bridge and a few at the station at Burghead, but nothing at the actual harbour section of either. If anybody knows of any I would be grateful etc........... Going back to the original poster, look up Aberdeen harbour, this is very interesting and is relatively well photographed (not that I have many pictures - sorry). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbg06003 Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Perhaps this is the plaice to create a list of Scottish harbour/dock lines - it may even winkle out some pics. Who knows, maybe I'll even get round to mackerel one.... Kirkcaldy Burntisland Rosyth Dundee I'll get my skates on and see if I've any pics - perhaps Ernie's wife knows if he has - give herring. That's quite enough dreadful puns for one evening..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJS1977 Posted July 23, 2011 Share Posted July 23, 2011 Matador What type of harbour are you thinking of? Are you thinking of somewhere large with passenger liners/ferries and big cargo ships, like Southampton or Dover, or something simpler in terms of a harbour that mainly served one industry? In the latter category would come places like: Portmadoc - slate Aberystwyth - Lead ore Saundersfoot - coal/iron Ridham Dock - paper Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvdlcs Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 Perhaps this is the plaice to create a list of Scottish harbour/dock lines - it may even winkle out some pics. Who knows, maybe I'll even get round to mackerel one.... Kirkcaldy Burntisland Rosyth Dundee I'll get my skates on and see if I've any pics - perhaps Ernie's wife knows if he has - give herring. That's quite enough dreadful puns for one evening..... Also Charlestown (as mentioned in another thread). There was a branch serving the harbour (and adjacent lime kilns?) which after truncation became the headshunt for RNAD Crombie. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 Aberdeen Docks was well served railway wise, as was Bo'ness and Grangemouth (built by the NB and CR respectively). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penlan Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 This is some track at Dundee in 2008... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted July 24, 2011 Share Posted July 24, 2011 Perhaps this is the plaice to create a list of Scottish harbour/dock lines That's a big subject! Some from around the Clyde: Portpatrick Stranraer Cairnryan Girvan Ayr Troon Irvine Ardrossan Greenock Port Glasgow Renfrew Paisley Glasgow (many, many!) Clydebank Bowling Dumbarton Faslane Campbeltown (and I`m bound to have missed some) Plus railway piers at Ardrossan (two), Fairlie, Wemyss Bay, Gourock, Greenock and Craigendoran. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lochty no more Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 Perhaps this is the plaice to create a list of Scottish harbour/dock lines - it may even winkle out some pics. Who knows, maybe I'll even get round to mackerel one.... Kirkcaldy Burntisland Rosyth Dundee I'll get my skates on and see if I've any pics - perhaps Ernie's wife knows if he has - give herring. That's quite enough dreadful puns for one evening..... Bruce Neither the time nor the plaice for this type of frivollity Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
45157 Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 Good few in and around Aberdeen Docks here, look under the "Gallery" section. http://www.gnsra.org.uk/master.htm regards Stewart Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matador Posted August 17, 2011 Author Share Posted August 17, 2011 Matador What type of harbour are you thinking of? Are you thinking of somewhere large with passenger liners/ferries and big cargo ships, like Southampton or Dover, or something simpler in terms of a harbour that mainly served one industry? In the latter category would come places like: Portmadoc - slate Aberystwyth - Lead ore Saundersfoot - coal/iron Ridham Dock - paper A small 12' x 2' layout plus a fiddle yard I have a feeling it will end up being a mix of prototype ideas rather than an actual prototype, David A Brit in the USA Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbg06003 Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 Guys, Issue 113 of the NBR Study Group Journal has an article on the Kirkcaldy Harbour branch - the focus is on a couple of the accidents which occurred there (if you're familar with the branch you'll guess the nature of the accidents!!) - but much background information is given as well. The rest of the issue is pretty good too. Bruce Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
devonseasider Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Not sure if you want pictures of real or model, but here's one of "Tormouth Quay" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stuartp Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 I can only find one online pic of the Garlieston Harbour Tramway (courtesy of Irishswissernie of this parish) but it's a beaut: http://www.flickr.com/photos/irishswissernie/5918752346/in/set-72157627028773863 There are some more modern pictures here http://marinas.com/view/marina/11750_Garlieston_Harbour_SC showing the feed mill and industrial buildings on the quayside itself before the mill was demolished and replaced with holiday let pixie houses. The harbour branch ran under the mill (the lines were still there until demolition) and at one time turned through 90 degrees via a wagon turntable to run along the breakwater. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_m Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Perth harbour had a branch at one time. Still visible on aerial maps last time I looked. There was a branch to Seafield harbour near Kirkcaldy but I'm not sure the harbour or the branch ever opened. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted December 26, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 26, 2012 Garlieston Harbour branch is an interesting one...I found photos, one of the harbour with a Caley 0-6-0 ahunting under the granary and two of the station, in Robotham's 'Branches & Byways - SW Scotland & the Border Counties' remaindered by Ian allan bookshops I've never seen a track plan of the harbour or the station (which you can work out from the photos), would be interested to see one Dava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penlan Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 ...I've never seen a track plan of the harbour or the station.... would be interested to see oneGo to http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html type in the co-ordinates 248100 and 546200, then select the 1908 pre.WW11 1:2500 map, click on the 'Enlarge Map' button, then the 'zoom' (+) pointer and you should see the line beyond Garlieston Goods Station and onto the pier/harbour (once it's all in focus, be patient). OK - I started with Garlieston (this centered in the middle of the Bay), then adjusted the co-ords to bring the required area into 'middle' view. Oooops reading your brief note, forgot the Station, you will need to alter the first co-ord to 247900 to see line to Goods Station, sans pier, any more help, well I think that will do for now.... :-) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasp Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 Try this link for Garlieston: http://maps.nls.uk/os/25inch-2nd-and-later/view/?jp2=82909332#jp2=82909332&zoom=5&lat=9435.5&lon=6710&layers=BT Great site, NLS maps Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Dava Posted December 29, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 29, 2012 Many thanks to Jim and Penlan, curiosity satisfied on the matter of Garlieston harbour! Maybe a project for the future, although the turntable-served sidings would limit operating interest unless replaced. Not one for now as my English light railway commands attention. Dava Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1ngram Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Thre is a great selectionm of photos of Aberdeeen harbour from the end of the 19th Century here: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/harbour/Intro.shtml The collection is now in Aberdeen University Library and has been digitiosed - and is searchable. Mind you the labelling of photos often isnt much cop so you are best to put in/search specific years to see what there is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 Don't forget Fort William where there were two. The main line to the old station beside Loch Linnhe used to continue along the quayside for a couple of hundred yards and included a short run round loop. There was a topic on Fort William Station on RMWeb a couple of years ago which included a detailed plan. I don't know whether the quayside extension was used for general goods or just to carry coal for the steamers The 3 foot gauge Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway just outside Fort William ran from a fairly long jetty on Loch Linnhe with quite a complex set of tracks on it. There was also quite extensive quayside track at Campbeltown on the 2ft 3in gauge Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway in Kintyre. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted December 30, 2012 Share Posted December 30, 2012 There's a few pictures of Burghead harbour in my gallery http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/gallery/album/535-alves-to-burghead/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian@stenochs Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 A small 12' x 2' layout plus a fiddle yard I have a feeling it will end up being a mix of prototype ideas rather than an actual prototype, David A Brit in the USA Hi, If you are restricted to a very small layout then I think you need to have more interesting or unusual rolling stock to keep the interest. The Sou' West built some 'interesting' dock tanks so you could consider something similar. Here are a couple. No 269 of the 266 Class. 0-4-4T Dock Tanks are quite unusual but interesting for all that. The 272 class were the heaviest 0-4-0Tanks built for a main line railway in the UK and are as big as many 0-6-0s but will go round your sharpest curves. Both these classes saw use at Ardrossan, Ayr and Greenock docks. One of the 0-4-4Ts got to Strathpeffer in LMS days so could even have been on the dockside at Inverness! Hope this helps, Happy modelling, Ian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nrm69 Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 Portchullin Tatty mentioned Inverness harbour but there was also another branch to the canal basin at Muirtown locks. The Kyle line crosses the north end of the basin on a swing bridge but there was also a curving branch back toward the distillery I expect. http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/13334/details/inverness+caledonian+canal+muirtown+basin/# http://maps.nls.uk/view/75663552 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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