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The "Granite City" in the north east of Scotland. | (Contains 18 photos)
The route to Aberdeen from Perth, via Dundee, Arbroath and Montrose. |
(Contains 4 photos)
Freight-only branch leaving the Inverness line at Kittybrewster Junction, Aberdeen. | (Contains 12 photos)
Village located on the West Coast Main Line, north of Beattock. |
(Contains 3 photos)
Located on the North Clyde Line, opened in 1858. | (Contains 1 photo)
A small village, but a major junction, where the Edinburgh line branches away from the WCML to Glasgow Central. |
(Contains 24 photos)
Small village just south of Abington on the WCML. | (Contains 4 photos)
Village on the south shore of the River Forth, and the Forth Bridge. |
(Contains 2 photos)
Located on the Aberdeen to Inverness, 6 miles out of Aberdeen. | (Contains 22 photos)
Edinburgh Waverley station lies 393 miles from London Kings Cross. Built by the North British Railway in 1866. |
(Contains 3 photos)
A small village located between Crawford and Beattock on the WCML. Once the junction for a branch to Wanlockhead. | (Contains 9 photos)
The two former Highland Railway routes to the far north, and to the Kyle of Lochalsh (and the ferry to Skye), which actually split at Dingwall. |
(Contains 12 photos)
Former Caledonian Railway terminus at the end of the West Coast Main Line from London Euston. | (Contains 7 photos)
The main station in the city for trains to Edinburgh. There is a high level and low level station here, and was built by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, opening in 1842. |
(Contains 8 photos)
For the purposes of this gallery we refer to the main route between Carlisle and Glasgow via Dumfries and Kilmarnock, plus the coal branches around New Cumnock. | (Contains 5 photos)
Leading to the large oil refinery, the branch leaves the Edinburgh to Falkirk line at Grangemouth Junction. |
(Contains 5 photos)
On the route between Coatbridge and Greenhill Lower Junction, near Falkirk. | (Contains 2 photos)
Junction where the line from Coatbridge joins from the south to the route to Falkirk and Larbert, and for the main Glasgow to Edinburgh main line. |
(Contains 29 photos)
The Highland Main Line starts properly at Stanley Junction, north of Perth, terminating in Inverness. | (Contains 10 photos)
Former mining village on the outskirts of Motherwell. |
(Contains 3 photos)
Main railway hub for Fife, located 13 miles north west of Edinburgh. | (Contains 23 photos)
The Highland capital, Inverness is the hub for lines stretching north to Wick & Thurso, west to Kyle of Lochalsh, east towards Aberdeen, and of course, south down the Highland mainline towards Perth. |
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Town on the Aberdeen to Inverness route. Junction for the Dufftown branch. | (Contains 8 photos)
On the West Coast Mainline, north of Abington, the tracks cross over Lamington Viaduct, spanning the River Clyde. |
(Contains 2 photos)
"Central Belt" station on route between Stirling in the north and lines going south to both Glasgow and Edinburgh. | (Contains 2 photos)
Longannet Power Station on the north bank of the River Forth, and on the railway between Alloa and Dunfermline. |
(Contains 6 photos)
Village on the north side of the River Forth, and at the north end of the Forth Rail Bridge. | (Contains 7 photos)
City where the lines from Glasgow and Edinburgh converge and where they diverge to Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness. |
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Now closed, once the site of an open-cast coal mine and loading point. Located on West Coast Main Line. | (Contains 9 photos)
The reinstated Borders Railway between Edinburgh and Tweedbank. |
(Contains 12 photos)
Terminus station of the Inverclyde Line from Glasgow Central. Station built by the Caledonian Railway, as part of the rail/steamer interchange for Rothesay, Isle of Bute. | (Contains 71 photos)
The route heads out of Glasgow Queen Street, up Cowlairs Bank, and on through Dumbarton, to Crianlarich, where the lines splits for either Oban or Fort William. The Mallaig Extension opened late, in 1904. |