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The first has now appeared in print too, on p49 of the new Cross opus. Lovely isn't she.
The second is taken in the gentle valley of the Teviot I think, which places it midway between H & H. It's great to see, there are too few captured thereabouts.


 


I don't remember seeing this one here before. http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=28018

And I think you'd be right. That's a southbound for Ditton Jct most probably. Minto Hills behind the locos, which are an exercise in extreme weathering.

And here's a repeat but with a question/ observation attached:
http://www.railbrit....e2.php?id=24002
Borthwick Bank SB, it's had a replacement staircase in brick and concrete at some point. From the W/T/T of 1968 ECS DMUs used to work to here before reversing and crossing over to work back from Gorebridge in the peaks. For this reason I suggest that the box would still be open at that date, and I wonder if the captioned date isn't a few years awry...?

And while we're on Borthwick Bank, we should stop for a look at this:
http://www.scotlands...CAHMS&id=289403

And heading south, this, which we may have had before, but a cast iron urinal is always to be embraced:
http://www.scotlands...age_id=SC698629

View of the down Melrose facilities from across the goods yard, this is a bit choking:
http://www.scotlands...age_id=SC427523

Further north, at Brewer's Bush Road (Bridge 20), I've got a bit of a sectional concrete platelayer's hut scene going down:
http://www.scotlands...CAHMS&id=192815


Lasswade viaduct. By complete coincidence one of my mates lives in one of the very des res on the site of the station to the right
http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=143982

And last for now, as I hadn't intended to be on here tonight, and it's modelling time, here's the seldom pictured, but omnipresent Newbattle Viaduct from the air:
http://www.scotlands...CAHMS&id=143958 Edited by 'CHARD
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I do wonder y'know, if your preoccupation with Waverley impedimenta is strictly healthybiggrin.gif

 

You didn't want to see the after effects of Brewer's Bush Road to be fair... unsure.gif

 

EDIT: Brewer's Bush, what a bloody good fictional pub name biggrin.gif

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Throwing a pair into the mix, more LMS 4-6-0s:

http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=30557

 

 

 

The photo in the new David Cross book states the 18th July and a Waverley- Carlisle service.

The reproduction is also very much colder colour temperature wise, with the buffer beam looking far closer to crimson than vermillion. I actually saw this machine a few weeks ago at York. When they open the new Waverley line it would be a great publicity shot to restage this scene.

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Bernard, that would indeed be an awesome scene to which we might look forward smile.gif

 

This link, however, is what's known as looking back. Had the photographer been forward-looking, we'd see the handrails protruding from the side of D1974, instead we look back at St Boswells station retreating towards the horizon for what is something like the penultimate time.... That's a humbling thought.

http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/search_item/index.php?service=RCAHMS&id=100205

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The photo in the new David Cross book states the 18th July and a Waverley- Carlisle service.

The reproduction is also very much colder colour temperature wise, with the buffer beam looking far closer to crimson than vermillion. I actually saw this machine a few weeks ago at York. When they open the new Waverley line it would be a great publicity shot to restage this scene.

Bernard

18 July 1965 was a Sunday, so guess that the caption in the book is wrong.

 

Another possible re-staging on opening would be to have Tornado - the last steam hauled train over the route was with a different Tornado - see http://liddesdalehistory.wetpaint.com/page/Liddesdale+railway+photographs

 

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and I made a mistake - the photo in my post above is the weekend before closure - red face!

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I usually read The Railway Observer some months after publication.

In the April edition there is a reference to finding a few lengths of light rail during excavations for residential development at Acreknowe. These could have been from the tramway that served Stobs Camp.I knew that there was a signal box at Acreknowe and that there was an army camp at Stobs but knew very little abouut the area until I found this.

http://stobs-camp.bizhat.com/index.htm

Page two has the only direct railway related photo.

The last page has a now and then shot that I find rather interesting.

If you relate the number of troops in some of the photos to the amount of supplies that they would need then I imagine that the railway would have been very busy at various times in providing for there needs.

For Waverley fanatics only, but to me an insight into the history of the line and the people it served.

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Tenuous Waverley connection No 664...

 

http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=24233

 

This one has nothing at all to do with our pet railway, but talk about tales of the unexpected...!

 

http://www.railbrit.co.uk/imageenlarge/imagecomplete2.php?id=30785

 

And a gem from an uncommonly seen corner of the route.

 

Carlisle Canal Junction.

 

Dave.

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I wonder if Signalman Hall put his coat on and turned the lights out after 60 left. Nowt else to do until 06:00 after that and sitting up there in the cabin on your own for the rest of the shift might have been a bit emotional.

 

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Poor bloke had to wait for the return of the prodigal 8606 unfortunately. I simply can't imagine the emotions of signalling such an ignominious light engine movement and recording it in the register. Utterly gutted I would think sums it up.

 

Anyway, winding the clock back a week or so:

 

 

Fascinating loco identities about on Christmas Eve morning 1968 (barely 24-hours before wee 'Chard's fitful sleep that would end in the unwrapping of a Hornby Hymek Freightliner set).

 

A no-heat 64B Baby-Sulzer, not a single 60A Highland example - but three locals from Haymarket, a foreign Brush and local 1968, equally at-home 261, and another Holiest of Holy Grails, none other than 6903 proven to have worked the route, yet another EE Type 3 to complement the pictorial record in David Cross' book.

 

Incredible finds thanks to Bruce M.

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Bernard, that would in fact have been the logical choice for the route and was subject of an intended probe into the central borders by the Caley.

 

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Possibly the single-most poignant reminiscence about the line, Bernard. It's easy to forget that in the days leading up to closure, there were many Last Evers, and January 4th 1969 hosted several.

 

Read slowly, with plenty of time for what's between the lines to make its import felt, it's hard not to get a flavour of the epic tragedy that this closure, of all the closures, actually represented.

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Now then.

 

This 'ere document is from a website and a half:

http://www.britishrailways1960.co.uk/ScRECPE01.html

 

 

You are responsible for getting peanut butter all over my key board. :D

Couldn't resist having a browse while eating my lunch.

Fascinating and not just for the Waverley page.

It could start a new trend of people attending exhibitions with stop watches to check that the trains are running at the correct speed. A new hobby for the rivet counters. :lol:

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You are responsible for getting peanut butter all over my key board. :D

Couldn't resist having a browse while eating my lunch.

Fascinating and not just for the Waverley page.

It could start a new trend of people attending exhibitions with stop watches to check that the trains are running at the correct speed. A new hobby for the rivet counters. :lol:

Bernard

 

LOL

 

That website is probably deserving of a thread in its own right, to be honest: an absolute goldmine as you rightly suggest.

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^^^

I do believe you! I remember the traffic light controlled bridge at Langholm when I was in the area in August 2005 and I never even realised that the branch ran close to that!

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I will be driving over skippers bridge tonight will try and take a photo if its light enough. I also did not realise the railway was so close. The trees on the site look like they have been there since the retreat of the ice sheet 12,000 years ago

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I'd concur with all the previously stated opinions too. There's no hint that a railway ever passed this way today!

The big-wigs may talk about de-forestation, but it's quite the reverse in post-industrial Britain! :D

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