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This is the follow up to Guthrie Hutton's 1991 book a Forth and Clyde Canal (now out of print).
This book recalls the lines, including the Waverly line, and the branch lines as they once existed in the nineteenth fifties and sixties before.......
No book on South Queensferry would be complete without a picture of the Forth Railway Bridge so there is one on the cover! Inside there is a good selection on the town.
Dating from the days when West Linton had a railway station, these sixty photographs represent the village when it was just beginning to attract new settlers from Edinburgh and when a trip down the main street by a wealthy local in his new car could still bring the crowds out to watch. The book also features images of Carlops, Lamancha, Romanno Bridge, Mountain Cross, Blyth Bridge, Kirkcurd and Do...More Info
As early as the seventeenth century, there were primitive wagonways serving coal pits in the Lothians. In 1831 the Edinburgh & Dalkeith (horse-drawn) railway opened, then the Lothians had their first taste of steam with the opening of the Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway in 1842. The next fifty years saw a substantial expansion of the railway network, with routes pushing out from Edinburgh to many town...More Info