Tour Scotland Video Level Crossing At Longforgan Perthshire Near Dundee

Tour Scotland travel video of the signal box and and gates and passenger train passing at the Level Crossing at Longforgan on ancestry, genealogy, history visit and trip to Carse of Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Longforgan is a village about five miles west of Dundee. In a few seconds you will see a passenger train to Perth travelling past on what is the East Coast Railway Line.

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Old Photograph Campbell's Dye Works Perth Perthshire Scotland

Old photograph of the fire at Campbell's Dye Works in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Peter Campbell, the founder of P&P Campbell, Dyeworks had originally begun work in Perth in 1814, in Methven Street, with Archibald Campbell, possibly a relative. By 1819 Peter had set up his own business. By 1881 Campbells were buying its dyes from John Deas of Perth who supplied substances like indigo and madder to produce the colours. Following a disastrous fire in 1919 Campbells was taken over by Pullars. Pullars was established by a John Pullar who had been apprenticed to Peter Campbell in 1816.



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Old Photograph The Sanatorium St Andrews Fife Scotland

Old photograph of the Sanatorium in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. A sanatorium, also spelled sanitorium and sanitarium, is a medical facility for long term illness, most typically associated with treatment of tuberculosis in the late nineteenth and twentieth century before the discovery of antibiotics.



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Old Photograph LNER Class M2 Steam Train St Margaret's Railway Depot Meadowbank Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of a London and North Eastern Railway Class M2 steam train locomotive in St Margaret's Railway Depot in Edinburgh, Scotland. The first engine shed, a roundhouse, and the workshops comprising St. Margaret's, were built atop a historic well by the North British Railway in 1845. Mainly associated over the following years with the movement of coal and general freight traffic, the depot was never to match its close Edinburgh Haymarket neighbour in glamour of any form.



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Old Photograph LNER Class J39 Steam Train Eastfield Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of a London and North Eastern Railway Class J39 64950 steam train in Eastfield Glasgow, Scotland. Class J39 was a class of medium powered 0-6-0 steam locomotive designed for mixed traffic work throughout the former LNER system between London and the north of Scotland. The class was introduced by Nigel Gresley in July 1926, based on his previous Class J38, introduced in January 1926, but with larger driving wheels. All passed into British Railways ownership in 1948. They began to be withdrawn from service in 1959 and all examples had been scrapped by the end of 1962.



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