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    Trivia - abandoned railways with intact track

    https://www.alangrayimages.com/bandeath-munition-crane-sunrise picture for sale
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    Trivia - abandoned railways with intact track

    From last weeks BBCScotland viewers pictures https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56483972 Mark Reynolds said his image shows a ruined railway bridge on the old "puggy line" which carried supplies along a narrow gauge railway between Loch Treig and Fort William. Now an artistic shot
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    British Film Institute: "The Brilliant Biograph"

    thank you for this brilliant link,
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    Disused railway tunnels

    Innocent Railway Tunnel, South Edinburgh, by Arthurs Seat, and Holyrood Park, North Edinburgh - Rodney Street, and Granton station Tunnel, all open paths, with lighting, Glenfarg two tunnels under the M9 Fife, no lighting. On You Tube an interesting one to Greenock Harbour
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    Caledonian Sleeper

    that must have been a HS3 or German brain movement to cover the 50 odd miles!
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    Disused lines with cycle paths

    http://colintontunnel.org.uk/ Edinburgh - I think my burst of posts reflects a deep desire to get back on a train, but that will be phase three I think! Over 80 metres of brilliantly illustrated poetry. Simply stunning! We're painting an enchanting mural in a Victorian railway tunnel, in...
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    Disused lines with cycle paths

    The Innocent Railway Path has an interesting history, https://www.edinburghguide.com/news/transport/8064-innocentrailwaypath, which like most of these routes is popular with cyclists.
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    (Trivia) Things you’ve seen or heard since lockdown that you didn’t experience before

    Yesterday a walk in glorious weather and met a lobster fisherman, fishing from the Wardie Bay breakwater, Leith Edinburgh would have missed that if I had been working at the office as usual, the adjacent flat dwellers have a great view up the Firth.
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    Disused lines with cycle paths

    Edinburgh a fine Victorian legacy, as I understand it the lines and yards purchased By City of Edinburgh, made into roads, housing sites and miles of multi use paths, which are so popular during lock down the council have found large new signs, to regulate the traffic, I think the cyclists may...
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    If you could go back in time and save at least one Train, what would it be?

    not a specific train but I would prefer compartment trains be reintroduced particularly on long distance routes, even after watching the '80s film Caught on a Train
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    Tay-y-Cafn hotel offers 10% discount for rail ticket holders. Any other establishments doing this?

    "We offer a £1 discount per person per night for stays of 2 nights or more or for guests arriving by rail or bicycle" along way North, but really worth it and worthwhile http://sleeperzzz.com/info.html
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    thanks I am one of the few with that surname

    thanks I am one of the few with that surname
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    Weather related disruption - Christmas 2013 and New Year 2014

    Left Andover heading for Birmingham at 16.38, via Basingstoke Reading Didcot Oxford and Banbury. FGW and Chiltern have got me through and free wifi from Banbury on Chiltern, where is Cross Country and not a word of explanation from them, hope to reach Birmingham by 21.10, so a long night, and...
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    Corrour Station

    For more info try, http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/105961/details/corrour+station/
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    Box Tunnel Trespass Video

    Slightly at a tangent for a special tunnel experience try the floodlit canal tunnel near Falkirk on the Forth and Clyde, it is an experience.

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