Old Photograph Crofters Cottages And Church Staffin Isle Of Skye Scotland

Old photograph of crofters cottages and church in Staffin on the North East coast of the Trotternish peninsula of the Isle Of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Staffin is located on the A855 road about 17 miles North of Portree and is overlooked by the Trotternish Ridge with the famous rock formations of The Storr and the Quirang. The district comprises 23 townships made up of, from south to north, Rigg, Tote, Lealt, Lonfearn, Grealin, Breackry, Cul-nan-cnoc, Bhaltos, Raiseburgh, Ellishader, Garafad, Clachan, Garros, Marrishader, Maligar, Stenscholl, Brogaig, Sartle, Glasphein, Digg, Dunan, Flodigarry and Greap.





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Old Photograph Railway Station Tyndrum Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train approaching the railway station in Tyndrum in the Highlands of Scotland. This is a small Scottish village whose Gaelic name translates as " the house on the ridge ". Tyndrum lies in Strathfillan, at the southern edge of Rannoch Moor. The village is notable mainly for being at a junction of road and rail transport routes to Glencoe to the North, Oban to the West and Crianlarich to Loch Lomond and Glasgow to the South.





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Old Photograph Steam Train Railway Station St Boswells Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station in St Boswells in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. This intermediate station was opened on 20 February 1849 as Newtown Junction station and served as the junction station for branch lines to Reston, Jedburgh and Sprouston Junction. It was successively renamed New Town St Boswells station in January 1863, and St Boswells station, on 1 March 1865, and closed to regular passenger traffic, with the line as a whole, on 6 January 1969.



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Old Photograph Steam Train Railway Shed Killin Scotland

Old photograph of a steam train railway shed in Killin, Scotland. Killin railway station was opened on 1 April 1886, the station comprised a single platform on the west side of the line. There were also three sidings on the same side. This station was officially closed on 1 November 1965, although following the Glen Ogle landslide on 27 September 1965, the service was suspended and replaced by buses until the official closure.



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Old Photograph Polkemmet Colliery Scotland

Old photograph of steams trains working at Polkemmet Colliery by Whitburn in West Lothian, Scotland. Whitburn town is located halfway between Scotlands's two largest cities, being about 27 miles east of Glasgow and 23 miles west of Edinburgh. The town was once dominated by Polkemmet Colliery, a large coal mine, but this was closed as a result of damage by underground flooding during the 1984 miners' strike and never re-opened. The colliery buildings have gone, and the coal bings that once were prominent have now been removed. Work to dismantle Bing No 3, the infamous burning bing, started in August 2006 and was completed by February 2008. The last major outbreak of burning occurred in 1998.



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