Tour Scotland Travel Video Banda Monumental De Mexico Mini Tattoo North Inch Park Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the music, song and dance of Banda Monumental De Mexico at the Mini Tattoo and Perth Salute event in North Inch Park on ancestry history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. Banda Monumental De México was formed especially for The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo on the Esplanade of Edinburgh Castle by the Organizacion Cultural de Intercambios Internacionales México and brought together more than 100 performers from Jaguares Marching Band, Compañía de Danza Tenochtitlan and Mariachi Juvenil Oro de México.

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Tour Scotland Travel Video Julie Young Dancers Mini Tattoo North Inch Park Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of the Julie Young Dancers at the Mini Tattoo and Perth Salute event in North Inch Park on ancestry visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Old Travel Blog Photograph Railway Station Abington Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a steam train the railway station in Abington, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Opened by the Caledonian Railway it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, passing on to the Scottish Region of British Railways during the nationalisation of 1948. It was then closed by the British Railways Board. It was served by local trains on what is now known as the West Coast Main Line. There is now no station convenient for Abington.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Railway Station Dalbeattie Scotland

Old travel Blog Photograph of the Railway Station in Dalbeattie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The building of the bridge over the River Urr at Craignair in 1797 and the rapid expansion of the granite industry in Dalbeattie attracted more people to settle in the town. By 1810 work in the quarries was plentiful, and over the next 30 years a lot of tradespeople settled and founded businesses in Dalbeattie. The town also had a station on the Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway, which opened in 1859 but closed in 1965. William McMaster Murdoch, was born in Dalbeattie on 28 February 1873, he was a Scottish sailor who was notable as the first officer of the Titanic. Mystery also surrounds his death on 15 April 1912. Born from a family of sailors, he was employed by the White Star Line in 1900 and quickly became an officer. In 1903, his leadership became recognized when he avoided a collision with the Arabic. In April 1912, he served as First Officer aboard the RMS Titanic. He is notable as the officer in charge on the bridge the night when the Titanic collided with an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. He was one of the 1,500 people who died in the disaster.



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Old Travel Blog Photograph Railway Station Larbert Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a steam train in the Railway Station in Larbert located two and half miles from Falkirk, Scotland. The station was built by the Scottish Central Railway, opening on 1 March 1848. It is located on the main line from Glasgow Queen Street to Stirling and Perth near to the triangular junction with the line to Falkirk Grahamston and Edinburgh Waverley. The SCR, as first constructed, linked the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway main line at Greenhill with the Scottish Midland Junction Railway, with branches subsequently constructed to Polmont on the Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway, in 1850 and to Denny in 1858. Both lines had triangular junctions with the main line, giving access from the south as well as from Larbert. The Denny branch was also linked into the Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway from 1882, providing an alternative route to Glasgow via Kirkintilloch and to Maryhill via the Kelvin Valley Railway. The station also served as the interchange for the South Alloa branch of the SCR from its opening in 1853, which was subsequently linked to the Alloa Railway via Throsk and a swingbridge over the River Forth from 1885.



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