pH Posted October 20, 2014 Share Posted October 20, 2014 It's been a long time since I set a square with a disused railway, so - Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 Clue - if you had seen the engines that worked this line, you might have imagined you were in the Wild West! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 22, 2014 Share Posted October 22, 2014 (edited) Another clue - a few members of a class of engines, transferred from much further south, worked this line. One of these was the last of that class to be withdrawn. Edited October 23, 2014 by pH Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 (edited) And another - line opened in 1903, closed to passengers in 1965. (Unusually, it had closed to goods several years before that.) Edited October 23, 2014 by pH Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 (edited) Between Fraserburgh and Inverallochy Edited October 23, 2014 by Shadow Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Between Fraserburgh and Inverallochy Yes. The 'foreign' engines were ex-GER F4s, with 67157 being withdrawn from Kittybrewster as last of the class. In common with all engines regularly used on this light railway, the F4s were fitted with 'cowcatchers': http://www.atomic-album.com/showPic.php/80489/F4.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Barking: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Next: While this line is described on the OS map as a tramway, it is described elsewhere as a narrow gauge railway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Lochaber Narrow Gauge Railway, Just to the North East of Fort William, Next, continuing the disused line theme Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Shieldhill, between Dumfries and Lochmaben: By coincidence, I was playing soccer yesterday with a guy who used to be the local cop in that area, based in Lochmaben. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 Next: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Clue - in pre-Grouping days, expresses over this route were headed by another company's engines. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Another clue - there was a 5-month break in service on this line in 1979. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted October 26, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 26, 2014 (edited) That would be the sad events at Penmanshiel. The square is just south of Grantshouse. Next Edited October 26, 2014 by BoD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 (edited) Just south of Thurso: Edited October 26, 2014 by pH Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted October 26, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 26, 2014 How do you do that? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 How do you do that? In that case - a lot of luck! I remembered a 'one-sided' cutting near water in that area had been used before. I looked at the map, and found that that earlier square had been at the west end of Loch Watten, so that wasn't it. But the overall landscape looked similar, so I thought I'd have a look along the lines in the populated parts of that area, before you get out onto the moors beyond Scotscalder. If that hadn't worked, I hadn't yet thought of Plan B! Anyway - next: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Clue - two pre-grouping Chief Mechanical Engineers were born in this town. Between them, they held the post of CME at five different companies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted October 27, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 27, 2014 The square is just north of Ardrossan, Ayrshire. The engineers being Robert & David Urie, although Wikipedia states they were born in Ardeer a little to the east. Sorry can't post squares from this tablet, can anyone else contribute the next one? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 (edited) The square is just north of Ardrossan, Ayrshire. The engineers being Robert & David Urie, although Wikipedia states they were born in Ardeer a little to the east. Sorry can't post squares from this tablet, can anyone else contribute the next one? Right square, wrong CMEs! Dugald and Peter Drummond were born in Ardrossan itself. Dugald was CME of the NBR, CR and LSWR. Peter Drummond was CME of the HR and GSWR. (They only needed the GNOSR for a full set of major Scottish railways!) Robert Urie was born in Ardeer, but AFAIK David Urie was born in Glasgow. Edited October 27, 2014 by pH Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ramblin Rich Posted October 28, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted October 28, 2014 Ha, did not twig the Drummonds were from the area too! That's quite a collection of engineering talent from a small area... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 (edited) Ha, did not twig the Drummonds were from the area too! That's quite a collection of engineering talent from a small area...And add in James Manson from Saltcoats plus, from a bit further away, Patrick and James Stirling from Kilmarnock and Galston, and Hugh Smellie from Ayr. (Edit: note to self - do not rely on memory; check before posting.) Edited October 28, 2014 by pH Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ramrig Posted October 28, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 28, 2014 The square is just north of Ardrossan, Ayrshire. The engineers being Robert & David Urie, although Wikipedia states they were born in Ardeer a little to the east. Sorry can't post squares from this tablet, can anyone else contribute the next one? Ok try this one Probably won't last long if pH is on form!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ramrig Posted October 30, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 30, 2014 (edited) Clue Time: This line crosses a former medieval deer park given to the local place by a former monarch in the 16th century. Edited October 30, 2014 by Ramrig Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted October 31, 2014 Share Posted October 31, 2014 Sutton Park nature reserve: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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