Old Photograph Central Railway Station Dumbarton Scotland

Old photograph of Central Railway Station in Dumbarton, Scotland. The station was opened on 15 July 1850 by the Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway on their route from Balloch Pier to Bowling, where travellers could join steamships on the River Clyde to get to Glasgow. Connections with the Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway at Dalreoch Junction and at Bowling put the station on a through route between Glasgow Queen Street and Helensburgh Central by 1858. The company was subsequently absorbed by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway in 1862 and eventually became part of the North British Railway three years later. However, in 1891, the North British was forced to come to an agreement with the rival Caledonian Railway to give the latter access to Balloch, and the Loch Lomond steamships, in order to prevent the building of a competing route by the Caledonian company, this resulted in the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway arriving from Possil via Maryhill Central in 1896. Trains on the West Highland Railway also began serving the station following its completion on 1 August 1894 and these continue to call here to this day.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Duirinish Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station by Duirinish, Wester Ross, Sotland. This is a remote railway station on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line near the settlement of Duirinish in the Highlands, northern Scotland. Duirinish is two miles inland of Scotland's west coast, near Loch Lundie. History Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Dalrymple Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Dalrymple, Ayrshire, Scotland. The station was originally part of the Ayr and Maybole Junction Railway, and later the Glasgow and South Western Railway. The station opened on 13 October 1856, and closed 6 December 1954. History Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Denny Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Denny located seven miles West Falkirk, Scotland. The railway station opened in 1850 on the Caledonian railway branch line from Larbert, and closed to passengers in the 1930’s although it was still used as a freight line until the 1960’s. History Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.



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Old Photograph Railway Station Dalmally Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Dalmally, Argyll, Scotland. This railway station serving the village of Dalmally, near Loch Awe in Scotland. This station is on the Oban branch of the West Highland Line, originally part of the Callander and Oban Railway. The station opened on 1 April 1877. For a while, it was the western extremity of the Callander and Oban Railway, until the line finally reached its ultimate destination, Oban, on 1 July 1880. The original station building was destroyed by fire on 16 November 1898. History Blog post of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to travel and visit one day.



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