WEST HIGHLAND NEWS PLUS Autumn 2024 published
Includes “Livestock Specials Along The Crieff Lines in 1949” and “West Highland Steam Charter – 2014” as well as a host of beautiful images and all superbly edited by Doug Carmichael
Category: NEWS
“History of the West Highland Line” on YouTube
FWHL member and railway author and historian, Gordon Webster, has recently completed a two-part history of the West Highland Line:
WEST HIGHLAND NEWS PLUS Summer 2024 published
Glenfinnan Viaduct repairs – July 2024
Network Rail Scotland began a programme of work to repair the viaduct in May. Read all about it here and here and listen to brilliant interview with Alan Ross on Green Signals here
Rannoch Viaduct renovation and other works
After a week of closure, the line reopened 25 March: West Highland Line re-opens following completion of £1.6m Rannoch viaduct upgrade (networkrailmediacentre.co.uk)
Rannoch Moor viaduct refurbishment, 16-25 March, 2024
Europe’s most remote railway viaduct about to undergo major upgrade | RailFreight.com
Network Rail Scotland work on WHL platform extensions began January 2024
“Helensburgh Upper, Ardlui, Roy Bridge, Garelochhead, Arrochar and Tarbet, Crianlarich, Bridge of Orchy and Tulloch stations will all benefit from the £1.7m investment on the route. Funded by the Scottish Government, the project began at Arrochar & Tarbet with plans to deliver the improvements at all of the stations by…
“Benighted on the Moor” audio play and guided walks launch, October 2023
You can listen to the play, written by Paul Hernes Barnes with Eilidh Cameron Sykes and Lodhaid MacRath, (the true story of the early surveying of the line in 1889) and to the audio guides to the walks at Bridge of Orchy, Corrour and Rannoch here
First appearance of Bubble Car “Flora”, September 2023
Class 121 number 55022 ‘Flora’, belongintg to Locomotive Services Limited (LSL) passing Polnish Chapel during private charter work.
WEST HIGHLAND NEWS PLUS Autumn 2023 published
This edition includes Caledonian Sleeper, The Jacobite, On The Waterfront, Summer Diesel Services in the Sixties and Book Reviews as well as the usual collection of stunning images, all brilliantly edited by Doug Carmichael.
“History of the West Highland Line” on YouTube
FWHL member and railway author and historian, Gordon Webster, has recently completed a two-part history of the West Highland Line:
WEST HIGHLAND NEWS PLUS Summer 2024 published
Glenfinnan Viaduct repairs – July 2024
Network Rail Scotland began a programme of work to repair the viaduct in May. Read all about it here and here and listen to brilliant interview with Alan Ross on Green Signals here
Rannoch Viaduct renovation and other works
After a week of closure, the line reopened 25 March: West Highland Line re-opens following completion of £1.6m Rannoch viaduct upgrade (networkrailmediacentre.co.uk)
Rannoch Moor viaduct refurbishment, 16-25 March, 2024
Europe’s most remote railway viaduct about to undergo major upgrade | RailFreight.com
Network Rail Scotland work on WHL platform extensions began January 2024
“Helensburgh Upper, Ardlui, Roy Bridge, Garelochhead, Arrochar and Tarbet, Crianlarich, Bridge of Orchy and Tulloch stations will all benefit from the £1.7m investment on the route. Funded by the Scottish Government, the project began at Arrochar & Tarbet with plans to deliver the improvements at all of the stations by…
“Benighted on the Moor” audio play and guided walks launch, October 2023
You can listen to the play, written by Paul Hernes Barnes with Eilidh Cameron Sykes and Lodhaid MacRath, (the true story of the early surveying of the line in 1889) and to the audio guides to the walks at Bridge of Orchy, Corrour and Rannoch here
First appearance of Bubble Car “Flora”, September 2023
Class 121 number 55022 ‘Flora’, belongintg to Locomotive Services Limited (LSL) passing Polnish Chapel during private charter work.
WEST HIGHLAND NEWS PLUS Autumn 2023 published
This edition includes Caledonian Sleeper, The Jacobite, On The Waterfront, Summer Diesel Services in the Sixties and Book Reviews as well as the usual collection of stunning images, all brilliantly edited by Doug Carmichael.