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1839Hartlepool Dock and Railway: Cassop branch partly opened although rest of line partly prepared.
1839The Great North of England, Clarence and Hartlepool Junction Railway: Wingate to Kelloe Bank opened. Bank was originally a rope worked incline.
1856Forth and Clyde Junction Railway: Railway opened from Stirling to Buchlyvie.
1935Aberystwith and Welch Coast Railway: Abertafol Halt opened.
Type 2s 5338 + 5331 heading an Edinburgh - Inverness train photographed crossing the Forth shortly after leaving Stirling station in March 1970. Type 2s 5338 + 5331 heading an Edinburgh - Inverness train photographed crossing the Forth shortly after leaving Stirling station in March 1970.

John Furnevel [1970] 		More images
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A 1982 photograph of Largs signal box. The box was destroyed by fire in 1985.
Largs
Colin Miller
Stanier 8F no 48318 pilots Gresley V2 no 60813 on a southbound freight seen shortly after passing Beattock summit in the mid 1960s [With thanks to Bill Jamieson]
Beattock
Robin Barbour Collection
A Waverley bound train heads south past Gogar on 17 March as work on Edinburgh^s tram depot continues off to the left. Edinburgh Airport stands in the background.
Gogar
John Furnevel
A1 Pacific no 60162 <I>Saint Johnstoun</I> photographed on its home shed at 64B Haymarket on 28 March 1959.
Haymarket MPD
A Snapper [Courtesy Bruce
08870 propels loaded MGR wagons between British Oak opencast disposal point and the BR exchange sidings under the former Thornhill to Notton line viaduct in August 1992
Crigglestone
David Pesterfield
An early escapee from Barry scrapyard, Manor Class no 7827 <i>Lydham Manor</i> awaiting removal from Barry on Saturday 14th March 1970.
Barry
Bill Jamieson
The foreign-looking timber canopy and supports at Huntly in June 1999
Huntly
David Panton
Multiple units pass on the slow lines at the south end of Leyland station on 13 March 2010. On the left is 156459 on a Blackpool North to Liverpool service, while on the right is 150207 arriving with the reverse working.
Leyland
John McIntyre
Looking west along Duke Street in March 2007 past the remaining north wall of what was once Glasgow^s enormous High Street goods depot.
High Street Goods
John Furnevel
Bullied <I>West Country</I> Pacific no 34102 <I>Lapford</I> on shed at Oxford on 29 June 1959.
Oxford
Robin Barbour Collection
Edinburgh Waverley - 305 519 stands in the sunshine at the old North Berwick platform 7 (now 4) in April 1995.
Waverley
David Panton
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February 2010 Major recovery/repair operations completed at Carrbridge
RMT union calls strike over use of guards on new A-B-E services
January 2010 Container train in major derailment at Carrbridge
Weather worsens across Britain - all transport badly hit
December 2009 Festive season travel disrupted by worst weather for many years

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An industrial locomotive receiving attention somewhere in Scotland in February 1965. What and where? [Added 130310]

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