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 an LNER Class J88 steam train in Eastfield Glasgow, Scotland. Eastfield was a steam shed under British Railways with the depot code 65A. The London and North Eastern Railway was the second largest of the railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain. It operated from 1 January 1923 until nationalisation on 1 January 1948. Sir Ralph Wedgwood was the Chief Officer for its first 16 years.
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Old photograph of a steam train in Kittybrewster, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. There have been three Kittybrewster railway stations at Kittybrewster, Aberdeen. The first opened in 1854 as a terminus of the Great North of Scotland Railway's first line to Huntly. This was replaced two years later by a station on a new line to a city terminus at Waterloo. It was replaced again when the Denburn Valley Line to Aberdeen Joint opened in 1867. The Great North of Scotland Railway amalgamated with other railways to form the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923 and became part of British Railways when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The station was closed on 6 May 1968. The line remains open as the Aberdeen to Inverness, Highlands, Line.
Tour Scotland video of old photographs of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The traditional industries here were fishing, papermaking, shipbuilding, and textiles Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.
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Old photograph of the steam train locomotive named Luckie Mucklebackit in the railway station in Dundee, Scotland. Luckie Mucklebackit is a character in The Antiquary, a novel by Sir Walter Scott about several characters including an antiquary: an amateur historian, archaeologist and collector of items of dubious antiquity. The gothic novel, is redolent with family secrets, stories of hidden treasure and hopeless love, with a mysterious, handsome, young man, benighted aristocracy and a night time funeral procession to a ruined abbey. The romance and mystery is counterpoised by some of Scott's more down to earth characters, and grittily unromantic events.
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Old photograph of a steam train in Kipps Shed by Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. This Scottish town is located approximately 12 miles East of Glasgow city centre. Kipps Shed Depot provided some motive power for the suburban services but mainly for steam locomotives for the various mineral lines of the area. The Depot closed to steam in 1962, but continued to house Diesel locomotives until 1967.
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Old photograph of a steam train in the railway station in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. The station was opened by the Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway on 1 November 1877, named Dunfermline, Comely Park. It was rebuilt in 1889, the Down, north bound, platform being extended eastwards with a new booking office building and a new Up, south bound platform, being provided; the extended facilities were brought into use on 5 March 1890, from which date the station was known as Dunfermline Lower in contradistinction to Dunfermline Upper on the line to Stirling. After the latter station was closed in 1968, the suffix was dropped and it became known as plain Dunfermline. To prevent confusion following the opening of the nearby Dunfermline Queen Margaret in 2000, the station was again renamed to Dunfermline Town.
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