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Maybe standards were slipping later on, this image of St Fillans suggests a somewhat less strict adherance (pragmatic ?) towards the use of brick styles.

Bill

Maybe better to think of it as two trap points, albeit preventing both being reversed at once.

Then each route can be treated much as per the end of a goods loop.
A brief internet hunt has not found a Brechin Station SB diagram (CRA disk has Brechin North Jn)

Bill

Was AHB for a while (1980's) before converting to full barrier and CCTV. Was that conversion the 1996 change ? Assume that was either due to higher road traffic or to allow a rail line speed increase - AHB are not permitted for linespeeds over 100mph IIRC Would it have been AHB right through from be...

Thread from the past time.... Thanks to a 1960 WTT from John Paton I have been using, here is the 1960 lineup for Bells yard and Polmadie up. As can be seen several trips are in the WTT. However their other parts are not, so for example the WTT shows no trips into Renfrew / Shieldhall at all, but 3 ...

Been looking through the Univ. Aberdeen George Washington Wilson (no relation) photographic collection for several railway subjects https://abdn.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=44ABE_INST:44ABE_VU1&inst=44ABE_INST&collectionId=81151714120005941 (note: search does no...

In case you have not yet found the 25"/mile 1899 map that is online from NLS :

https://maps.nls.uk/view/82874757

Track layout, platform lengths, building locations / shapes, signal posts.
Do note that these may have some timeframe inaccuracies as OS did not always re-survey railways.

Bill

Most interesting having visited Peebles the other day. The West station site has recently been cleared of some (later) buildings. See Google Streetview which was updated July 2021. The deep link images referred to above no longer work and now redirect to a higher level page. Those wanting to view th...

Looking at John Young's Strathearn book, plate 3.14 shows the Gleneagles - Crieff pole route to similar to that in the photo. But plate 10.34 shows the Crieff line embankment just out of Gleneagles to be higher and the ground undulating. Perhaps same line but different place - the approach to Crief...

Taking the point about telegraph wires, and the cut off last vehicle looks like a brake so a shortish train.

Crieff line just out of Gleneagles about to cross over the A9 ?
Hills seem an OK match
https://goo.gl/maps/rZ6wJceaWUSaAz7v8

Bill

Outline looks like Ochils from the north (checks window ), so might place it in the Earn valley, prone to flood, one side or other of Dunning ?


Bill

Maybe a lamp so that the driver would know where the turntable centre was at night to stop in the right place ?

then someone then broke the lamp and replaced it with something that could be 'lit' or just something brighter

Has anyone got a scanned copy of freight workings covering Polmadie / Eglinton / Shields from the 1960's ? Failing that arrange the loan of a paper one that, if agreeable, I would scan for CRA use and return ? I think it is mainly a Section B that is of interest, although 'Section A' would also be h...

As this will be a large loss of revenue to Paypal, maybe they will get a sort code so a Paypal account can look like a bank account?

Likely to suffer double fees if that happens though

Bill

Elsewhere the Dolphinton branch does not look like 'structure for double' https://goo.gl/maps/6zbfvmcFgLAETFHh9 Both Uplawmoor and the Dolphinton location may have too much flat & level land beyond the tracks when compared to the image. For the photo being Uplawmoor, I would have expected the ma...

Google map:

https://goo.gl/maps/zuZ5dFznw8tDigYb9

Image merged / scaled

Bill

Another possibility from map trawling:

Carstairs - Dolphinton:
https://maps.nls.uk/view/85446592

Current view the bridge is removed and filled, with the stream presumably piped

Bill

The terrain match is indeed good, but a problem with this location is that the image would be taken across over the site of 'Caldwell' station, which was the reason for the road realignment to north & west. Everything suggests that Caldwell station opened with the line south of Neilston (Low) / ...

Maybe Blantyre - East Kilbride ?
Built as single track on double structures, and there is this bridge:

https://maps.nls.uk/view/82892931#zoom= ... &layers=BT

All now under the expressway road.

Bill

Judging by the position of the soot on the bridge, it is a line 'single with structures for double' rather than a pure single track as designed.

Bill

On the TL map (1864 survey) there is a small pink rectangle in the vee of the junction, did you work out what that was ? It may be about the right size for a covered frame, certaily the right place. When overlayed (in photoshop) the 1899 map with signal box from : https://maps.nls.uk/view/82898715 t...

No problem with publication, but I feel it is going to be the more worthwhile adding to my conjectures with some more evidence and perhaps a drawing of the problem. Maybe discuss a little more here and I will then 'write the letter'. The regulations of the time (Requirements, &c. of the Board of...

The excellent article raises the question of how the unusual layout at Stanley Jn came about, with right hand running for HR services. https://www.railscot.co.uk/img/7/377/ One widely held view was a need to hold HR services clear of the main CR lines for regulation purposes, given the likely late r...

Found, as always looking for something else, was this 2015 edition of the Killin area local magazine with 3 pages about the railway to mark 50 years from closure. A few hazy memory errors, but worth a read. https://killinnews.co.uk/issues/issue148.pdf The rebuilt Junction station cottage is now quit...

Thanks, personal email address supplied as a PM. One part of the closure story that I had not realised until recently was that the section through Appin station & past Castle Stalker was proposed for conversion to road, at the same time as the section northwards was, and was completed. This was ...

I have drawn a blank on finding the gradenit diagram for the Ballachulish branch, apart from a few comments of 'there weren't many', which is fair enough for large parts of the branch. However there were clearly some such as north of Connel bridge as well as around Creagan, Duror and Ballachulish Fe...