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If there was a time when Tomintoul might have had a railway then it would have been in the 1860s-there was iron ore fever in them thar hills (the Ladder Hills to be exact) but neither the lairds nor the railway companies wanted to make the first move. A trial shipment of iron ore was carted...

Don't forget the Hampton and Kempton Waterworks Railway in West London http://www.hamptonkemptonrailway.org.uk/

Then should you be including it as part of a quoted text when it is not correct?

Well maybe it is more that people from London who will be more disappointed as they will not be able to escape to their hunting lodges ;)

The risk of spreading or contracting the virus must be much higher travelling in an open railway coach than in a sleeper compartment-obviously one must also keep to that compartment and not walk around. What you do after arriving in London is a different question. BTW how did my original...

https://www.sleeper.scot/caledonian-sleeper-reduces-services-during-covid-19-outbreak/ CS have suspended services to Aberdeen and Fort William so there will be a lot of disappointed people in the West Highlands. They are running a single train from Glasgow and from Inverness which join/split at...

How about Waterybutts West and Walnut Grove between Dundee and Perth? Heads of Locheil and Salmon Path between Ft William and Mallaig?

I've seen concrete sleepers that have a rounded profile like that but not wooden ones that I can remember.

I suggest the railway at Saughtree station on the former Border Counties Railway. It is probably less than two hundred yards long; this photo shows most of it I think https://www.railscot.co.uk/img/38/722/

A really good photo of the new junction where the double track just north of Hutcheon Street starts is here https://www.railscot.co.uk/img/70/653/ As far as designs for new stations is concerned it depends to some extent on the topography and ground conditions. In these days of competitive...

I like the idea of using spring water but, of course, there is no guarantee it is any more suitable for use in a boiler than tap water. Any railway take water from watercourses, lakes or canals?

Where do heritage railways get their water to supply their steam locos? I have seen from photos various ways of getting water including hosepipes, fire engine pumps and water tankers road or rail. Do any of the preserved railways use water from wells at stations or sheds?

I travelled to Poland to visit relatives in both 1962 and again in 1972 on the Ost-vest train from Ostend. We lived in north east Scotland so we had to take a sleeper to London first then the boat train to Dover ferry to Ostend and finally the Moscow train. I was only a toddler when my mother...

My experience as a volunteer in a "so-called" charity shop compared to volunteering at a heritage railway (which I did on one occasion) is that the former tend to be in urban areas (towns or cities) with some form of access by Public Transport or within walking distance of home whereas the...

So the Stockton and Darlington line was also a waggonway as they used horses to pull passenger coaches from 1825 to 1832? The problem is that people have different ideas of definitions and the early railways were neither designed or operated in such a way as to fit into our present day...

EDIT of post #94 Just for the avoidance of doubt the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway was a railway not a waggonway. There are several contemporary descriptions of the opening and later operations which confirm this. The G&G was built to the then Scottish standard gauge for coal railways 4'...

Just for the avoidance of doubt the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway was a railway not a waggonway. perhaps another contributor is getting confused with the Kilmarnock and Troon? There are several contemporary descriptions of the opening and later operations-I suggest people read these. It was built...

Yes now it is but for many years there was no footbridge from the station platform. It was also convenient for the Old Biscuit Warehouse where I used to work-is that building still extant?

I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned York; the original station was inside the city walls. You can't get much more central than that...

Well it does not look like it from the footbridge on the Gardens...