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 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 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 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 They began to be withdrawn from service in 1959 and all examples had been scrapped by the end of 1962.
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Old photograph of the London and North Eastern Railway Class Y9 68123 steam train in the railway station in Dundee, Scotland. The basic industrial shunting locomotive design was originated by Neilson and Company of Hyde Park Works, Springburn, Glasgow, who built the first examples of the type, mainly for industrial customers, in the 1870s. In 1876 the Caledonian Railway bought four locomotives of this design from Neilsons. Between 1885 and 1908, the Caledonian Railway built thirty four more examples at the company's own St. Rollox railway works in Glasgow. In much the same way, the North British Railway bought two locomotives from Neilson in 1882, and by 1899 they had built thirty six for themselves at their Cowlairs railway works in Glasgow, giving a total of thirty eight engines in service.
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Old photograph of the London and North Eastern Railway Class V2 60813 steam train in the railway station at Haymarket in Edinburgh, Scotland. The V2 was a versatile locomotive, capable of hauling fast fitted freights and express passenger trains. The V2s performed equally competently for British Railways, leaving their mark on the East Coast Main Line, the Waverley Route between Carlisle and Edinburgh and on the ex Great Central main line between London Marylebone and Sheffield. The V2s' swansong came on the Edinburgh to Aberdeen run, working alongside the last LNER A2s and A4s. The entire class was withdrawn from service between 1962 and 1966.
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