Old Photograph Steam Train Perth Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train arriving at the railway station in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Viaduct Lochearnhead Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train approaching the railway viaduct at Lochearnhead, Scotland. The Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie Railway was established with the intention of filling the 15 mile gap between Comrie, Perthshire, where the railway had arrived in 1893, and the Callander and Oban Railway at Balquhidder. The line was authorised as far as St Fillans in 1897, opening on 1st October 1901. The Caledonian Railway took the company over in August 1902, thereafter extending the line to Lochearnhead in 1904. Trains first travelled the through route to Balquhidder on 1st May 1905. The line was never a commercial success and closed on 1st October 1951. Lochearnhead villages is located within the Breadalbane area of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. Three clan family names associated with Lochearnhead are McLaren, Stewart and McGregor. The first of these is recorded in 1296, when Lauren of Ardveich had his name entered into the Ragman Roll. The McLaren burial ground at Leckine was last used in 1993. By the time the Stewarts came to Ardvorlich in 1582, the Reformed church, under the guidance of John Knox, had been adopted in Scotland for more than two decades. It was nearly two centuries later that the MacGregors acquired Edinchip, in 1778, building the current Edinchip House in 1830.





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Old Photograph Railway Station Gollanfield Scotland

Old photograph of Gollanfield Junction which was a railway station located at Gollanfield to the West of Nairn, Moray, Scotland. Opened, as Fort George Station, by the Inverness and Nairn Railway on 5 November 1855, it was renamed Gollanfield Junction Station on 1 July 1899 and Gollanfield Station in March 1959. The station closed to regular passenger traffic on 3 May 1965, but the main line remains in use.



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Old Photographs Tay Railway Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train on the Tay Railway Bridge which carries the railway line from Dundee, across the Firth of Tay to Wormit in The Kingdom of Fife, Scotland. The present structure is the second one on this site. On the night of 28 December 1879 at 7.15 pm, the first bridge collapsed after its central spans gave way during high winter gales. A train with six carriages carrying seventy five passengers and crew, crossing at the time of the collapse, plunged into the icy waters of the River Tay. All seventy five were lost. The disaster stunned the whole country and sent shock waves through the Victorian engineering community. The ensuing enquiry revealed that the bridge did not allow for high winds. At the time a gale estimated at force ten or eleven had been blowing down the Tay estuary at right angles to the bridge. The second bridge opened on 20 June 1887 and remains in use.

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Old Photograph Forth Railway Bridge Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train crossing the Forth Railway Bridge from the Kingdom of Fife to South Queensferry, Scotland. The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge over the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, nine miles West of Edinburgh City Centre. It was opened on 4 March 1890.



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