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backontrack

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Did you mean 'Handsworth Wood'?
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Birchills
 
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Xenophon PCDGS

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Abbey Foregate is the final closed station on this journey.
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We next move to Scotland for the next journey......

This is number 428 in the series so far.....

The journey starts at the closed station of Princes Street
It follows the line of the Caledonian Railway Main Line...via the Balerno loop line
It then follows the line of the Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie Railway
It then follows the line of the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway
It then follows the line of the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway...via the Montgreenan loop line
It then follows the line of the Dalry and North Johnstone Line
It then follows the line of the Paisley Canal Line
It then follows the line of the City of Glasgow Union Railway
It then follows the line of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway...via the Ratho loop line
It then follows the line of the North British Railway Main Line
It then follows the line of the Berwickshire Railway
It then follows the line of the NBR Kelso Branch Line
It then follows the line of the NER Kelso Branch Line
It then follows the line of the NER Cornhill Branch Line
It then follows the line of the NER Alnwick Branch Line
It then follows the line of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway
It then follows the line of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway...via the North Wylam loop line
It then follows the line of the Border Counties Railway
It then follows the line of the Wansbeck Railway
It then follows the line of the Blyth and Tyne Railway Main Line
It then follows the line of the Blyth and Tyne Railway Backworth to Newcastle Branch Line
The journey ends at the closed station of Forest Hall

The first closed station on this journey is Princes Street
 

Xenophon PCDGS

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General note

I think that after Merchiston, but before Hailes Halt, came Gorgie East

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However, this now looks like something that occurred once in a time in the distant past when urgent engineering works were being carried out, so this will not count on this journey.
 
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