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Image :
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Date : Jun 1986, catalogued 07 Nov 1999
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Photographer : John Hurst
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Medium : Kodachrome, slide number 14504
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Description :
In the late 1940s, the author travelled on the
P&O liner
Strathmore
, and I was always interested
to see the actual district in Scotland. There used to be a line
through here, as recently as 1980 (does any reader know the
actual date of closure?), but as this picture shows, the line
has been lifted so recently that the weeds have not had a chance
to reclaim the track bed. Taken near the infamous town of
Kerriemuir.
Simon Hickman from the Caledonian Railway (Brechin) Ltd.,
subsequently wrote saying:
Passenger trains on the Strathmore Line ceased in
1967. However, until 1982 (August, I think) a line was
retained from Stanley Junction, the Highland Line end, to
Forfar. This was used mainly for sugar beet and potatoes. At
the other end, the section from Kinnaber to Bridge of Dun was
in use util 1 Jan 1982, as the Brechin branch. This is sadly
now lifted although of course Brechin to Bridge of Dun still
operates under our auspices.
You might be interested to know that the CR has aquired
Glamis signal from the former station on the Stanley-Forfar
section. Eventually this will be erected at BoD.
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