Old Photograph Railway Station Blair Atholl Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train locomotive in the railway station in Blair Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Perth to Inverness main line of the former Highland Railway was opened as Blair Athole station by the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway on 9 September 1863. It was renamed Blair Atholl station on 7 September 1893, and remains in regular use by passenger trains.



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Old Photographs Carmunnock Scotland

Old photograph of Carmunnock within the boundary of Glasgow, Scotland. This ancient settlement which is associated with the early Christian missionary Saint Cadoc, has a medieval street plan set within the lands of an estate held by variously the Morays of Bothwell, the Earls of Douglas and eventually to the Lords, Marquesses and Dukes of Hamilton until 1700 when it passed to the Stuarts of Castlemilk.



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Old Photographs Railway Station Banff Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station at Banff, Scotland. The line from Tillynaught opened in 1859 and a temporary terminus opened on 30 July 1859. A permanent station opened the following year. As originally built there was a single platform and a goods line through to the quayside at Banff harbour but this was cutback prior to 1900 when a second platform line was constructed. The Great North of Scotland Railway took over the line in 1867 and operated it until grouping in 1923. Passing into British Railways ownership in 1948, the line was, like the rest of the lines along the Moray coast, considered for closure as part of the Beeching report and closure notices were issued in 1963. Passenger services were withdrawn in 1964 and the entire line, including Banff station finally closed in 1968.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Oyne Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Oyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Aberdeen to Inverness main line of the former Highland and Great North of Scotland Railways, subsequently grouped into the London and North Eastern Railway was opened by the latter company on 20 September 1854. It closed to regular passenger traffic on 6 May 1968; the line itself remains in use. The village has limited local resources. It has a daily bus service to Inverurie 8 miles away and to Huntly. The area is popular with commuters to Inverurie, Huntly and Aberdeen, a journey of around 30 minutes. The area has a number of large private houses such as Westhall House, which was a small hotel until the 1990s. The Horn family were lairds of Westhall.

The Huntly surname of English and Scots origin, from places so called in Gloucestershire, England, and Berwick, and Aberdeen in Scotland. The derivation is from the Olde English pre 7th Century " hunta ", a hunter, and " leah ", a wood or clearing in a wood.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Pinwherry Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Pinwherry, Ayrshire, Scotland. This intermediate station on the Glasgow, Ayr, Girvan, Stranraer main line of the former Glasgow and South Western Railway was opened by the Girvan and Portpatrick Junction Railway on 5 October 1877. It closed on 7 February 1882, reopened on 16 February 1882, closed again on 12 April 1886, reopened again on 14 June 1886, and finally closed on 6 September 1965. The line itself remains open to regular passenger traffic.



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