Strathspey Railway
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The Strathspey Railway (SR) in Badenoch and Strathspey
, Highland
, Scotland
, operates a 10 miles (16.1 km) preserved railway from Aviemore
to Broomhill via Boat of Garten
, part of the former Inverness and Perth Junction Railway
(later part of Highland Railway
) which linked Aviemore with Forres
. It is one of only a handful of primary/secondary main lines to be preserved in Britain today.
. Until 1998 the railway's southern terminus was "Aviemore Speyside" about 300 yards further north. Aviemore Speyside is no longer in regular use, though it has been retained as a fallback in case of problems with Network Rail
.
From Aviemore, the line passes the four road locomotive shed which was constructed by the Highland Railway
in 1898. The original purpose of the shed was to house locomotives for the lines to Perth and Inverness (via Carrbridge and Forres). It was common for original Highland Railway engines to be allocated to the shed and in London, Midland and Scottish Railway
(LMS) days it housed Stanier
Black Fives, Pickersgill
Bogies (Caledonian Railway
), Caley 439 tanks, Caley 812 classes, and Fairburn tanks
. In British Railways days the shed was allocated the shed code '60B'. These days the engines that are in traffic on the Strathspey Railway (SR) bear the 60B shedplate on their smokebox. There is also a carriage maintenance shed which was erected and opened for use in 2005. This shed allows the railway's volunteers and staff to work on its fleet of coaches indoors.
The former enginemens' hostel called 'Spey
Lodge' also stands at this location. This building has now reverted to its original use of housing locomotive crews and other railways volunteers. This building was erected by the LMS during the Second World War to allow railway crews a safe and cheap option for accommodation after they had finished working on their trains for the day. It was saved by the Strathspey Railway Company during the 1970s.
After Spey Lodge, the railway crosses Dalfaber level crossing. This level crossing was not originally part of the railway but was installed after the development of the Dalfaber Estate in the 1980s.
to Forres and the Great North of Scotland Railway
's (GNSR) branch to Craigellachie - this was the original Strathspey Railway, the company being a subsidiary of the GNSR. Today there are two passenger platforms and the yard stores the majority of the SR's rolling stock
.
Boat of Garten also has the railway's only water column where the locomotives stop to take water on their way north through the station. Locomotives are normally coaled during the morning, on the south side of the station. This is currently the only station with operational signalling
and has two signal boxes: Boat of Garten North and Boat of Garten South. It uses traditional British Railways mechanical semaphore signals
.
Most of what visitors to the railway see today is original from the days of British Railways. The main layout of the station has not been altered significantly, with the exception of two new coal sidings which have been installed on the east side of the station and the creation of an extensive yard behind the signal box. One turnout was removed that would have allowed access to the yard without having to access the headshunt
. There are no plans to re-install the turnout.
Leaving Boat of Garten, trains cross the road on the new single track box-girder bridge and pass the site of the original GNSR engine shed, long demolished it is now the site of a permanent way
depot. The track had been lifted and structures demolished by British Rail
after closure of the line in the 1960s. The railway passes though mainly farmland on the re-laid track, which was mostly recovered from Kincardine power station
in Fife
in the 1990s. The tracks to Craigellachie and Grantown
had originally left the station extending in a double track
formation as far as Croftnahaven, where the GNSR line turned sharply south east and crossed the River Spey
. This arrangement was adopted because a signal box
for a junction here was deemed too expensive.
, in the BBC
series "Monarch of the Glen".
to Alloa
railway that had being relaid for a new passenger service.
The BBC reported that the £2.9m road scheme would involve the rail line going under the A95. Transport Minister, Tavish Scott
, said the project would be ready for construction by 2008/9 and funding had been allocated for 2009/10. Strathspey MP, Danny Alexander
, speculated that the proposed rail link between Aviemore and Grantown would be good for tourism.
By May 2007 the trackbed had been cleared north of the Broomhill loop as far as the bridge over the River Dulnain. New fencing, mileposts and drainage works were progressing and it was hoped for track laying to start later in 2008. Travelling by road along the A95 from Grantown towards Aviemore, new fencing marking the new track alignment could be seen.
In October 2008, it was announced that the steelwork of the former Merry Street Bridge in Motherwell
had been donated to the railway by Network Rail. The Strathspey Railway intends to use the steelwork to replace the missing bridge over the River Dulnain. However, Transport Scotland has since notified the railway that the project has been reevaluated in late 2008 and is now estimated to cost £5.3 million, leading Transport Scotland to consider the extension project too expensive to pursue. The railway is now faced with raising £1 million by 31 December 2009, to fund construction of a planned tunnel on the extension, but even if the funds are raised, construction is not guaranteed to occur.
Management for building extension is now being undertaken by a new body, The Strathspey Railway Charitable Trust. All the various fundraising efforts are co-ordinated by the SRCT, including a charitable appeal. They also manage the negotiations with the various landowners and public bodies required to push the line through to Grantown on Spey.
Most of the people who work on the railway are volunteers belonging to the Association.
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Badenoch and Strathspey
Badenoch and Strathspey as a local government district 1975 to 1996Badenoch and Strathspey is a local government ward of the Highland council area and a ward management area of the Highland Council in Scotland...
, Highland
Highland (council area)
Highland is a council area in the Scottish Highlands and is the largest local government area in both Scotland and the United Kingdom as a whole. It shares borders with the council areas of Moray, Aberdeenshire, Perth and Kinross, and Argyll and Bute. Their councils, and those of Angus and...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, operates a 10 miles (16.1 km) preserved railway from Aviemore
Aviemore
Aviemore is a town and tourist resort, situated within the Cairngorms National Park in the Highlands of Scotland. It is in the Badenoch and Strathspey committee area, within the Highland council area. The town is popular for skiing and other winter sports, and for hill-walking in the Cairngorm...
to Broomhill via Boat of Garten
Boat of Garten
Boat of Garten is a small village and post town in Badenoch and Strathspey, Highland, Scotland. In 1951, the population was less than 400; in 1971, it was almost 500; in 1981, it was almost 700, and the same in 2001.-Etymology:...
, part of the former Inverness and Perth Junction Railway
Inverness and Perth Junction Railway
The Inverness and Perth Junction Railway was built to link the Inverness and Aberdeen Junction Railway at Forres and Perth and Dunkeld Railway, ultimately absorbing the latter.- History :...
(later part of Highland Railway
Highland Railway
The Highland Railway was one of the smaller British railways before the Railways Act 1921; it operated north of Perth railway station in Scotland and served the farthest north of Britain...
) which linked Aviemore with Forres
Forres
Forres , is a town and former royal burgh situated in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast, approximately 30 miles east of Inverness. Forres has been a winner of the Scotland in Bloom award on several occasions...
. It is one of only a handful of primary/secondary main lines to be preserved in Britain today.
The route
The Strathspey Railway operates from Network Rail's Aviemore railway stationAviemore railway station
Aviemore railway station serves the town and tourist resort of Aviemore in the Highlands of Scotland. The station, which is owned by Network Rail and managed by First ScotRail, is located on the Highland Main Line between Perth and Inverness, and is also the southern terminus of the Strathspey...
. Until 1998 the railway's southern terminus was "Aviemore Speyside" about 300 yards further north. Aviemore Speyside is no longer in regular use, though it has been retained as a fallback in case of problems with Network Rail
Network Rail
Network Rail is the government-created owner and operator of most of the rail infrastructure in Great Britain .; it is not responsible for railway infrastructure in Northern Ireland...
.
From Aviemore, the line passes the four road locomotive shed which was constructed by the Highland Railway
Highland Railway
The Highland Railway was one of the smaller British railways before the Railways Act 1921; it operated north of Perth railway station in Scotland and served the farthest north of Britain...
in 1898. The original purpose of the shed was to house locomotives for the lines to Perth and Inverness (via Carrbridge and Forres). It was common for original Highland Railway engines to be allocated to the shed and in London, Midland and Scottish Railway
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
The London Midland and Scottish Railway was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act of 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railway companies into just four...
(LMS) days it housed Stanier
William Stanier
Sir William Arthur Stanier, FRS was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.- Biography :...
Black Fives, Pickersgill
William Pickersgill
William Pickersgill was born in Nantwich in 1861 and died in Bournemouth on 2 May 1928. He was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Caledonian Railway from 1914 until Grouping in 1923...
Bogies (Caledonian Railway
Caledonian Railway
The Caledonian Railway was a major Scottish railway company. It was formed in the early 19th century and it was absorbed almost a century later into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, in the 1923 railway grouping, by means of the Railways Act 1921...
), Caley 439 tanks, Caley 812 classes, and Fairburn tanks
Tank locomotive
A tank locomotive or tank engine is a steam locomotive that carries its water in one or more on-board water tanks, instead of pulling it behind it in a tender. It will most likely also have some kind of bunker to hold the fuel. There are several different types of tank locomotive dependent upon...
. In British Railways days the shed was allocated the shed code '60B'. These days the engines that are in traffic on the Strathspey Railway (SR) bear the 60B shedplate on their smokebox. There is also a carriage maintenance shed which was erected and opened for use in 2005. This shed allows the railway's volunteers and staff to work on its fleet of coaches indoors.
The former enginemens' hostel called 'Spey
River Spey
The River Spey is a river in the northeast of Scotland, the second longest and the fastest-flowing river in Scotland...
Lodge' also stands at this location. This building has now reverted to its original use of housing locomotive crews and other railways volunteers. This building was erected by the LMS during the Second World War to allow railway crews a safe and cheap option for accommodation after they had finished working on their trains for the day. It was saved by the Strathspey Railway Company during the 1970s.
After Spey Lodge, the railway crosses Dalfaber level crossing. This level crossing was not originally part of the railway but was installed after the development of the Dalfaber Estate in the 1980s.
Boat of Garten
The extensive Boat of Garten station features its original buildings. It was originally a parallel junction between the Highland Railway's main line from PerthPerth, Scotland
Perth is a town and former city and royal burgh in central Scotland. Located on the banks of the River Tay, it is the administrative centre of Perth and Kinross council area and the historic county town of Perthshire...
to Forres and the Great North of Scotland Railway
Great North of Scotland Railway
The Great North of Scotland Railway was one of the smaller Scottish railways before the grouping, operating in the far north-east of the country. It was formed in 1845 and received its Parliamentary approval on June 26, 1846, following over two years of local meetings...
's (GNSR) branch to Craigellachie - this was the original Strathspey Railway, the company being a subsidiary of the GNSR. Today there are two passenger platforms and the yard stores the majority of the SR's rolling stock
Railroad car
A railroad car or railway vehicle , also known as a bogie in Indian English, is a vehicle on a rail transport system that is used for the carrying of cargo or passengers. Cars can be coupled together into a train and hauled by one or more locomotives...
.
Boat of Garten also has the railway's only water column where the locomotives stop to take water on their way north through the station. Locomotives are normally coaled during the morning, on the south side of the station. This is currently the only station with operational signalling
Railway signalling
Railway signalling is a system used to control railway traffic safely, essentially to prevent trains from colliding. Being guided by fixed rails, trains are uniquely susceptible to collision; furthermore, trains cannot stop quickly, and frequently operate at speeds that do not enable them to stop...
and has two signal boxes: Boat of Garten North and Boat of Garten South. It uses traditional British Railways mechanical semaphore signals
Railway semaphore signal
One of the earliest forms of fixed railway signal is the semaphore. These signals display their different indications to train drivers by changing the angle of inclination of a pivoted 'arm'. Semaphore signals were patented in the early 1840s by Joseph James Stevens, and soon became the most...
.
Most of what visitors to the railway see today is original from the days of British Railways. The main layout of the station has not been altered significantly, with the exception of two new coal sidings which have been installed on the east side of the station and the creation of an extensive yard behind the signal box. One turnout was removed that would have allowed access to the yard without having to access the headshunt
Headshunt
A headshunt is a short length of track, provided to release locomotives at terminal platforms, or to allow shunting to take place clear of main lines.- Terminal Headshunts :...
. There are no plans to re-install the turnout.
Leaving Boat of Garten, trains cross the road on the new single track box-girder bridge and pass the site of the original GNSR engine shed, long demolished it is now the site of a permanent way
Permanent way
The permanent way is the elements of railway lines: generally the pairs of rails typically laid on the sleepers embedded in ballast, intended to carry the ordinary trains of a railway...
depot. The track had been lifted and structures demolished by British Rail
British Rail
British Railways , which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages...
after closure of the line in the 1960s. The railway passes though mainly farmland on the re-laid track, which was mostly recovered from Kincardine power station
Kincardine power station
Kincardine power station was a large coal-fired power station on the shores of the upper Firth of Forth by Kincardine on Forth, Fife, Scotland....
in Fife
Fife
Fife is a council area and former county of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries to Perth and Kinross and Clackmannanshire...
in the 1990s. The tracks to Craigellachie and Grantown
Grantown-on-Spey
Grantown-on-Spey is a town in the Highland Council Area in Scotland.It was founded in 1765 as a planned settlement on a low plateau at Freuchie beside the river Spey at the northern edge of the Cairngorm mountains, about 20 miles South East of Inverness .It is the main town in what was the...
had originally left the station extending in a double track
Double track
A double track railway usually involves running one track in each direction, compared to a single track railway where trains in both directions share the same track.- Overview :...
formation as far as Croftnahaven, where the GNSR line turned sharply south east and crossed the River Spey
River Spey
The River Spey is a river in the northeast of Scotland, the second longest and the fastest-flowing river in Scotland...
. This arrangement was adopted because a signal box
Signal box
On a rail transport system, signalling control is the process by which control is exercised over train movements by way of railway signals and block systems to ensure that trains operate safely, over the correct route and to the proper timetable...
for a junction here was deemed too expensive.
Broomhill
The line reaches its current terminus at Broomhill, in countryside roughly half-way between the villages of Nethy Bridge and Dulnain Bridge. The replica station building has been reconstructed on the foundations of the original. The run-round loop is beyond the station. It is anticipated that this will be removed when the extension to Grantown is complete. Broomhill is used as the station for GlenbogleGlenbogle
Glenbogle is a fictional Scottish estate, created by Compton Mackenzie in his Highland novels, and featured in the BBC series Monarch of the Glen...
, in the BBC
BBC Scotland
BBC Scotland is a constituent part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the publicly-funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom. It is, in effect, the national broadcaster for Scotland, having a considerable amount of autonomy from the BBC's London headquarters, and is run by the BBC Trust, who...
series "Monarch of the Glen".
Future extension
In July 2006, the Scottish Executive made a firm commitment to re-aligning the A95 at Gaich, near Grantown. This move would allow the extension of the SR to Grantown along the former line to Dava and Forres. Track has been gifted for this project from the lifted StirlingStirling
Stirling is a city and former ancient burgh in Scotland, and is at the heart of the wider Stirling council area. The city is clustered around a large fortress and medieval old-town beside the River Forth...
to Alloa
Alloa
Alloa is a town and former burgh in Clackmannanshire, set in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. It lies on on the north bank of the Firth of Forth close to the foot of the Ochil Hills, east of Stirling and north of Falkirk....
railway that had being relaid for a new passenger service.
The BBC reported that the £2.9m road scheme would involve the rail line going under the A95. Transport Minister, Tavish Scott
Tavish Scott
Tavish Hamilton Scott MSP is a Scottish politician and MSP for Shetland. He was Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats from 2008 to 2011...
, said the project would be ready for construction by 2008/9 and funding had been allocated for 2009/10. Strathspey MP, Danny Alexander
Danny Alexander
Daniel Grian Alexander is a British Liberal Democrat politician who has been Chief Secretary to the Treasury since 2010. He has been the Member of Parliament for the Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey constituency since 2005....
, speculated that the proposed rail link between Aviemore and Grantown would be good for tourism.
By May 2007 the trackbed had been cleared north of the Broomhill loop as far as the bridge over the River Dulnain. New fencing, mileposts and drainage works were progressing and it was hoped for track laying to start later in 2008. Travelling by road along the A95 from Grantown towards Aviemore, new fencing marking the new track alignment could be seen.
In October 2008, it was announced that the steelwork of the former Merry Street Bridge in Motherwell
Motherwell
Motherwell is a town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, south east of Glasgow. The name "Moderwelt" appears on a map of Lanarkshire made by Timothy Pont some time between 1583 and 1611 and printed in the Netherlands in around 1652, although the settlement was probably little more...
had been donated to the railway by Network Rail. The Strathspey Railway intends to use the steelwork to replace the missing bridge over the River Dulnain. However, Transport Scotland has since notified the railway that the project has been reevaluated in late 2008 and is now estimated to cost £5.3 million, leading Transport Scotland to consider the extension project too expensive to pursue. The railway is now faced with raising £1 million by 31 December 2009, to fund construction of a planned tunnel on the extension, but even if the funds are raised, construction is not guaranteed to occur.
Management for building extension is now being undertaken by a new body, The Strathspey Railway Charitable Trust. All the various fundraising efforts are co-ordinated by the SRCT, including a charitable appeal. They also manage the negotiations with the various landowners and public bodies required to push the line through to Grantown on Spey.
Strathspey Railway Association
The role of the Strathspey Railway Association is to provide funding and volunteers to run the Strathspey Railway. It is the biggest shareholder in the Strathspey Railway Company, the organisation which owns the light rail orders and operates the railway.Most of the people who work on the railway are volunteers belonging to the Association.
Locomotives and rolling stock
Diesel locomotives
- Andrew Barclay & Son, Kilmarnock 0-4-0DH (works no. 517 of 1966) "Power of Enterprise"
- BRBritish RailBritish Railways , which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the "Big Four" British railway companies and lasted until the gradual privatisation of British Rail, in stages...
0-4-0 North British shunterBritish Rail Class D2/10British Rail Class D2/10 was a locomotive type commissioned by British Rail. It was a diesel-hydraulic shunting locomotive in the pre-TOPS period built by the North British Locomotive Company...
no. D2774. Operational. - BR 0-6-0 Class 08British Rail Class 08The British Rail Class 08 is a class of diesel-electric shunting locomotive. From 1953 to 1962, 996 locomotives were produced, making it the most numerous of all British locomotive classes....
no. D3605. Operational. - BR 0-6-0 Class 97/6British Rail Class 97/6The British Rail Class 97/6 0-6-0 diesel shunting locomotives were purpose-built for departmental duties by Ruston & Hornsby at Lincoln in 1953 or 1959...
no. 97651. Operational. - BR Bo-Bo Class 26British Rail Class 26The British Rail Class 26 diesel locomotives, also known as the BRCW Type 2, were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company at Smethwick in 1958-59. Forty seven examples were built, and the last were withdrawn from service in 1993...
no. 26002 (D5302) requiring repairs and currently in the yard at Boat of Garten. - BR Bo-Bo Class 26 no. 26025 (D5325) requiring repairs and currently in the yard at Boat of Garten.
- BR Bo-Bo Class 27British Rail Class 27British Rail's Class 27 comprised 69 diesel locomotives built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company during 1961 and 1962. They were a development of the earlier Class 26; both were originally classified as the BRCW Type 2.- Usage :...
27050 (D5394) Stored Out of Service(Suffered heavy frost damage in the winter of 2010/2011) - BR A1A-A1A Class 31British Rail Class 31The British Rail Class 31 diesel locomotives, also known as the Brush Type 2 and originally as Class 30, were built by Brush Traction from 1957-62.- Description :...
31327 (D5862). In traffic following a repaint into BR green. - North British Locomotive CoNorth British Locomotive CompanyThe North British Locomotive Company was created in 1903 through the merger of three Glasgow locomotive manufacturing companies; Sharp Stewart and Company , Neilson, Reid and Company and Dübs and Company , creating the largest locomotive manufacturing company in Europe.Its main factories were...
0-4-0 DH shunter. Works no 27549 of 1956. Stored at Boat of Garten awaiting overhaul. - Ruston & Hornsby 0-4-0 DM shunter. Works no 265618 of 1948. Queen Anne whiskyWhiskyWhisky or whiskey is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash. Different grains are used for different varieties, including barley, malted barley, rye, malted rye, wheat, and corn...
livery. Undergoing restoration at Aviemore. - Ruston & Hornsby 0-4-0 DM shunter. Works no 260756 of 1950. Stored out of use.
Diesel multiple unit cars
- BR Class 107British Rail Class 107The British Rail Class 107 diesel multiple units were built by the Derby Works of British Railways and were introduced in 1960. The class looked similar to the later Class 108 units, but were heavier - having been built out of steel.-Usage:...
DMBS Sc51990. In service. - BR Class 107 DMBS Sc52008. In service.
- BR Class 107 DMSL Sc52030. Awaiting restoration.
- BR Class 114British Rail Class 114The British Rail Class 114 diesel multiple units were built by BR Derby from 1956 to 1957. Forty-nine 2-car units were built, numbered 50001-49 for driving motors and 56001-49 for driving trailers . The units were used in the early days out of Lincoln TMD on services all over the county...
DTC E54047. Out of service. - BR Class 117British Rail Class 117The British Rail Class 117 diesel multiple units were built by Pressed Steel from 1959 to 1961.When first introduced, these three-car units were all based with the similar Class 121 single carriage units on British Railway's Western Region for suburban work out of London Paddington, as well as...
DMBS W51367. Repaint Due. In service. - BR Class 117 DMS Sc51402. Repainted. In service.
- BR Class 117 TCL S59511. Under restoration.
Steam locomotives
- BR 2-6-0 Class 2MT no. 46512 "E. V. Cooper, Engineer". Built SwindonSwindon WorksSwindon railway works were built by the Great Western Railway in 1841 in Swindon in the English county of Wiltshire.-History:In 1835 Parliament approved the construction of a railway between London and Bristol. Its Chief Engineer was Isambard Kingdom Brunel.From 1836, Brunel had been buying...
1952. Owned by Highland Locomotive CompanyHighland Locomotive CompanyThe Highland Locomotive Company is a subsidiary of the Strathspey Railway Company. The Strathspey Railway Company operate and own most of, the Strathspey Railway, a heritage railway based in the Central Highlands....
- Returned to steam in March 2011. Expected to handle the majority of the year's services alongside 828. - Wemyss Private Railway 0-6-0T no. 17 "Braeriach", built by Andrew Barclay & Son, Kilmarnock 1935 (works number 2017). In service, following new tyresRailway tires-Installation:The steel wheels of steam locomotives and other older types of rolling stock were usually fitted with steel tires or tyres to provide a replaceable wearing element on a costly wheel....
fitted and work carried out on the motion; boiler ticket expires in 2015. - Caledonian RailwayCaledonian RailwayThe Caledonian Railway was a major Scottish railway company. It was formed in the early 19th century and it was absorbed almost a century later into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, in the 1923 railway grouping, by means of the Railways Act 1921...
0-6-0 812 ClassCaledonian Railway 812 ClassThe Caledonian Railway 812 Class, or "Jumbos" is a class of 0-6-0 steam tender locomotive designed by John F. McIntosh and introduced in 1899. It featured the boiler from the 721 “Dunalastair” Class 4-4-0s....
no. 828 (17566, BR 57566). Returned to steam in 2010, operates regularly. - LMSLondon, Midland and Scottish RailwayThe London Midland and Scottish Railway was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act of 1921, which required the grouping of over 120 separate railway companies into just four...
4-6-0 Class 5MT no. 5025 (45025). Stored at Aviemore awaiting overhaul with funds in the process of being raised. Work began in 2011. - WDWar Department (UK)The War Department was the United Kingdom government department responsible for the supply of equipment to the armed forces of the United Kingdom and the pursuance of military activity. In 1857 it became the War Office...
0-6-0ST AusterityLNER Class J94The London and North Eastern Railway J94 Class is a class of steam locomotive that was formed when 75 former "Austerity" 0-6-0STs were purchased by the LNER in 1946 from the War Department.- Overview :...
no. 9. Built Robert Stephenson and HawthornsRobert Stephenson and HawthornsRobert Stephenson and Hawthorns Ltd was a locomotive builder with works in North East England.-History:The company was formed in September 1937 when Robert Stephenson and Company, which was based in Darlington took over the locomotive building department of Hawthorn Leslie and Company, based in...
1943 (works number 7097). Out of use at Aviemore awaiting return of boiler from contractors. Boiler ticket expires in 2018. - WD 0-6-0ST AusterityLNER Class J94The London and North Eastern Railway J94 Class is a class of steam locomotive that was formed when 75 former "Austerity" 0-6-0STs were purchased by the LNER in 1946 from the War Department.- Overview :...
no. 48, built by HunsletHunslet Engine CompanyThe Hunslet Engine Company is a British locomotive-building company founded in 1864 at Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England by John Towlerton Leather, a civil engineering contractor, who appointed James Campbell as his Works Manager.In 1871, James Campbell bought the company for...
in 1943 (works number 2864). Stored Boat of Garten out of use. - WD 0-6-0ST AusterityLNER Class J94The London and North Eastern Railway J94 Class is a class of steam locomotive that was formed when 75 former "Austerity" 0-6-0STs were purchased by the LNER in 1946 from the War Department.- Overview :...
no. 60, built 1948 by Hunslet (works number 3686). Dismantled for major overhaul.Kept at Aviemore. - WD 0-6-0ST Austerity no. 75008 "Swiftsure", built 1943 by Hunslet (works number 2857). Out of use at Aviemore. Needs new inner firebox.
- Andrew Barclay & Son, Kilmarnock 0-6-0ST (works no. 1833 of 1924) no. 6 "Niddrie". Currently at Aviemore out of use.
- Andrew Barclay & Son, Kilmarnock 'Pug' 0-4-0ST (works no. 2020 of 1936) no. 2 "Balmenach". On display at Boat of Garten.
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Stations
- Aviemore railway stationAviemore railway stationAviemore railway station serves the town and tourist resort of Aviemore in the Highlands of Scotland. The station, which is owned by Network Rail and managed by First ScotRail, is located on the Highland Main Line between Perth and Inverness, and is also the southern terminus of the Strathspey...
- Aviemore (Speyside) railway stationAviemore (Speyside) railway stationAviemore was a station on the Strathspey Railway that closed in July 1998. It was built in the late 1970s from components from Dalnaspidal, a station on the Highland Main Line closed as part of the Beeching Axe...
(closed) - Boat of Garten railway station
- Broomhill railway station
External links
- Strathspey Railway website
- Strathspey Railway Charitable Trust website
- Caledonian Engine 828's website
- BBC News BBC News article on the proposed extension