Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Old photograph of the steam coaster Rota near Stromness, Orkney Islands, Scotland. On 25th of December, 1931, the British cargo ship Livonia was driven ashore at Lyserort, when on route from Gdynia for Riga with a cargo of coal. All 23 crew were rescued by Rota.
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Old photograph of Craftsmen in Stromness, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Historically, the town featured trades such as boatbuilding, cooperage, seaweed processing (alginate production), and straw plaiting.
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Old photograph of people outside the Post Office in Stromness, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Prior to consistent service, mail was transported via small open boats, such as the " post boat " from Huna in Caithness to Orkney, an unreliable process that lasted for many years.
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Old photograph of a steam locomotive by Loch Carron on the West Coast of Wester Ross, Scotland. The Kyle of Lochalsh railway Line runs along the south side of the loch, with railway stations at Attadale, Stromeferry, Duncraig, and Plockton.
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Old photograph of a steam train locomotive at The Mound Railway Station near the head of Loch Fleet, a sea loch on the east coast located between Golspie and Dornoch, Scotland. For more than half of its life it was the junction for Dornoch. The Sutherland Railway opened between Bonar Bridge and Golspie on 13 April 1868. Among the intermediate stations was one at The Mound, which opened with the line. The station took its name from the nearby road embankment engineered in 1817 by Thomas Telford across the head of Loch Fleet, which is now on the route of the A9 road. On 2 June 1902, the Dornoch Light Railway was opened,] which connected to the main line at a junction situated just to the West of The Mound station. The Dornoch branch line closed on 13 June 1960, and The Mound station closed the same day. The line remains open, and the nearest station is now Golspie.
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