After a very long and successful stint as Chairman, Doug Carmichael has decided to retire. We are so grateful to him for all his years of dedicated service. But he will be staying on as Magazine Editor. Hamish Baillie has been elected as our new Chairman. “I was a career…
Beautiful front cover image from Sandy Smeaton, this edition includes an update on platform extensions, “Holidaying at Corrour” and “Loch Earn Circular Tour” part 2 as well as a host of beautiful images and all superbly edited by Doug Carmichael.
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
FWHL member and railway author and historian, Gordon Webster, has recently completed a two-part history of the West Highland Line:
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
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)
Europe’s most remote railway viaduct about to undergo major upgrade | RailFreight.com
“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…
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
