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 London and North Eastern Railway Class D49 62715 steam train Roxburghshire in the railway station at Haymarket in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Old photograph of the London and North Eastern Railway Peppercorn A2 Class No. 60532 steam train locomotive named Blue Peter in the railway station at Haymarket in Edinburgh, Scotland. 60532 was named in the LNER tradition of using the names of famous racehorses. Blue Peter III was the name of a horse owned by Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery, which in 1939 won races including the Epsom Derby and the 2000 Guineas. The horse earned almost £32,000 for Lord Rosebury, more than enough to purchase three Doncaster Pacific locomotives at the time. In the autumn of 1949 five A2's were overhauled at Doncaster where a number of modifications were made, including the fitting of a multiple valve regulator and a double blastpipe and chimney, together with Kylchap cowls. In addition, 60532 received a second whistle placed offside behind the chimney. Subsequently the five A2's, including 60532, moved to Scotland. 60532 was allocated to Aberdeen, used mainly on express passenger services between Aberdeen and Edinburgh, which benefited from their greater power and acceleration. 60532's final rail tour was in October 1966 over the Waverley Line and the West Coast Main Line over Beattock. 60532 was withdrawn from service on 31 December 1966, and put into storage.
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Old photograph of the 86 V Class steam train Merlin in the railway station at Haymarket in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Great Northern Railway named these locomotives after birds of prey: 83 Eagle, 84 Falcon, 85 Merlin, 86 Peregrine, and 87 Kestrel. The V class were the first three-cylinder compound locomotives in Ireland. They had a round-topped firebox and Stephenson valve gear and weighed 103 tons 11 cwt including tender. The result was an engine that looked dramatically larger than their predecessor the S Class.
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Old Photograph of a Biplane flying past the Forth Railway Bridge over the Firth Of Forth by South Queensferry near Edinburgh ,Scotland. This feat of Victorian engineering has joined St Kilda, Edinburgh and the Great Wall of China on Unesco as a World Heritage Site. The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge over the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles west of central Edinburgh. It was opened on 4 March 1890. The bridge connects Edinburgh with Fife, leaving the Lothians at Dalmeny and arriving in Fife at North Queensferry and onwards to Perth, Perthshire, connecting the north east and south east of the country. The bridge was begun in 1883 and took 7 years to complete with the loss of 98 men. Until 1917, when the Quebec Bridge was completed, the Forth Bridge had the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world, and it still has the world's second longest single span.
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Old photograph of the Windsor Hotel on the corner of St Vincent Street and Douglas Street in Glasgow, Scotland. The last Kaiser of Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II, celebrated his 51st birthday in this hotel. Wilhelm II, Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia, born 27 January 1859, died 4 June 1941, was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, Deutscher Kaiser und König von Preußen, ruling both the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918.
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