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1824Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway: Act receives Royal assent.
Engineer : Thomas Grainger and John Miller
Contractors : Thomas Grainger, William Baird & Co & Charles McCaul
1847Edinburgh Leith and Newhaven Railway: Scotland Street to Canal Street opened (Canal Street called Princes Street briefly).
1850Edinburgh and Northern Railway: Opened from Cupar to Ferry-Port-on-Craig for passengers
1853Stockton and Hartlepool Railway
Hartlepool West Harbour and Railway
Clarence Railway: Merge to become the West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway Company
1861Inverness and Nairn Railway
Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway: Inverness and Nairn Railway absorbed by Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway

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Thompson Class B1 61350 on shed at Keith on 17th May 1952. Photograph by AC Roberts. Thompson Class B1 61350 on shed at Keith on 17th May 1952. Photograph by AC Roberts.

Graham Morgan Collection [1952] 		More images
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HM The Queen visited Lancashire on 16th May as part of the Diamond Jubilee UK tour. 67026 <I>Diamond Jubilee,</I> in a special silver livery, lifts the Royal Train up the bank at Lancaster with 67006 out of sight bringing up the rear.
Lancaster
Mark Bartlett
Something old (the steps), something new (the replacement deck), something borrowed (that bush certainly shouldn^t be sticking out of the steps), and something distinctly not blue - the weeping sky could conceivably be mourning the loss of the LNWR locomotive testing station, which was just East of this bridge, which is to the West (down side) of the LNWR Rugby station. Unusual to see a new deck and old steps.
Rugby
Ken Strachan
The north end of Dumfries on 13 June 1959 with ex-Great North of Scotland Railway 4-4-0 No 49 <I>Gordon Highlander</I> following arrival with the SLS <I>Golden Jubilee Special</I> from Buchanan Street. The building on the hill is the remains of the old ^lighthouse^ signal box, now sadly demolished. [See image 3568]
Dumfries
A Snapper [Courtesy Bruce
The approach to Alloa from the east on 9 May 2012, with Clackmannan Road roundabout in the background. EWS liveried 66015 is passing with coal empties from Longannet power station heading for Hunterston. The track on the right is part of Alloa East loop.
Alloa
John Furnevel
Part of Hexham goods station in 1973. [See image 11312]
Hexham
Ian Dinmore
J36 no 65297 and a few friends stand in the siding behind the coaling stage at 64F Bathgate shed. The photograph is thought to have been taken around 1964. [With thanks to Messrs Hutton, Armit, Ferguson, Jeffries and Smith]
Bathgate
K A Gray
Never mind the swimming pool [see image 38763], here is Wellow station in April 2012 - extended and not quite original here and there, but rather nice all the same. This platform would have been for Bath.
Wellow
Ken Strachan
A summer^s day in 1961 with locals waiting to board the 11 a.m. Gleneagles-Crieff railbus at Strageath Halt. This was one of two simple wooden platforms opened by BR to coincide with the introduction of the new trains. [See image 28895] [Corrected resubmission - With thanks to John Robin and Dave Stewart]
Strageath Halt
Frank Spaven Collection [
73010+45698 stand at Carlisle on the afternoon of 17 July 1965 with the combined Glasgow Central/Edinburgh Princes Street - Manchester/Liverpool service.
Carlisle
K A Gray
A Double decker Coradia Duplex emu, built by Alstom in 2004-05 and designated Class Z 26500 by SNCF, awaits its next Transport Express Régional (TER) turn at Grenoble, having received attention from the local neds... sorry graffiti artists.
Grenoble
Andrew Wilson
View of Loch Ken Viaduct in April 2012 from the west side of the loch.
Loch Ken Viaduct
John Gray
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March 2012 Design development contract for Borders Railway awarded to BAM Nuttall.
Major revamp of Glasgow Subway announced.
January 2012 Refurbished Waverley Steps reopened.
December 2011 Painting of Forth Bridge completed [for at least 25 years]
November 2011 Last ferry sails from Stranraer Harbour

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An old van photographed at Waterside in 1977 - anyone know its origins? [Added 13 May 2012]

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