Memories of diesels in the Highlands

Rescars said:

So long as no-one does clever things with interfaces so archive material remains available! (Apologies for straying OT, but this is a sore point with me. I have a commercially recorded CD of documents I would dearly like to access, but the Adobe software refuses to open in anything newer than now non-existent Windows 98.)

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D6130 said:

The following morning, 5382 and 5405 returned from Eastfield, ran down the branch, coupled onto the Royal Train and then hauled it, with 6119 still attached at the rear, back up to the exchange sidings. Here the 29 was detached and the pair of 27s headed South with their VIP passenger, causing some considerable distraction to certain pupils of Hermitage Academy at Craigendoran....as @Cheshire Scot may be able to testify. About half-an-hour later, 6119 - looking rather forlorn, despite her gleaming paintwork and white buffers - scuttled past light engine on the way back to Eastfield, having performed her final passenger duty. She was withdrawn five weeks later - despite having undergone an intermediate repair and repaint at St Rollox works in August of that year - and was cut-up at the same works in the Spring of 1972....one of the last four survivors of her class.

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Acathater said:

What Adobe software is causing the problem?

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Rescars said:

Without the disk in front of me, I think it's Adobe Acrobat 6

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Acathater said:

If you just want to view the documents, not edit, then Acrobat Reader 11 should work
Download if from https://get.adobe.com/uk/reader/

you may have to change the program defaults after to use the Reader as Windows will try to open the files using Edge and may have problems with older PDF files.
If you want to edit the files then you might need a third party solution - we should be able to find something

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Cheshire Scot said:

I do not recall that particular Royal Train instance, presumably whatever lesson I was in at that time was on the 'wrong' (eastern) side of the school with no railway view as any WHL movement on the western side always caught my eye. One chance Royal Train sighting was that returning the late Queen south after opening Cruachan Power station in 1965, crossing the bridge over what was then the road to Drumfork Farm at the junction of East King Street and Old Luss Road. I walked under that bridge four times a day for six years as that road also led to the back entrance to the schooll - do kids still go home for lunch these days, not many I imagine.

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D6130 said:

Do you recall what was hauling the Royal Train on that occasion?

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Cheshire Scot said:

One chance Royal Train sighting was that returning the late Queen south after opening Cruachan Power station in 1965, crossing the bridge over what was then the road to Drumfork Farm at the junction of East King Street and Old Luss Road.

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Merle Haggard said:

Don't forget how expensive slide film was then - Agfa CT36 was 36/- (£1.75) when a good wage was £20 a week. One of my first films in 1965, Gevaert - was ASA 25 (ish) slightly earlier ones had been ASA 5. That pretty much demanded shutter speed of 1/30 sec at f8 (for reasonable depth of field) on a sunny day, so anything moving was blurred.

Looking back at my photos I very often regret not also taking a picture of what was visible in the background, as well. But I just couldn't afford to photo everything interesting.

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Spaceship323 said:

1981 I had a 26 from Kyle to Inverness, then 50 years later a 156 to Wick and back...All day on a unit..Thank goodness for the Scotrail trolley!

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