| | The Scottish Central Railway celebrates its 150th anniversary during 1998 and this is timely moment to publish a thorough history of this fascinating railway. Here is the story of this originally fiercely independent company before absorption into the Caledonian Railway in 1865. The railway had its works at Perth and there is a survey of the the SCR's locomotives and rolling stock. The story of the magnificent station at Perth is a complicated one in which the SCR was a major player and it is told here. The line which runs via Dunblane, and Gleneagles was to form a part of the West Coast route to Aberdeen which witnessed the 'Railway Races to the North' and then in the 1960s the celebrated 3 hour expresses from Glasgow to Aberdeen using LNER 'A4' Pacifics. Contents:
- Historical Background
- Origins and Promotion
- Construction and Finance
- The Struggle for the South Inch
- New Allies and Delays
- The Line Opens
- Amalgamations
- The General Station
- Difficult Neighbours
- Locomotive Works and Rolling Stock
- Under New Management
- Train Services in the l9th and 20th Centuries
- A Poem on the Saving of the South Inch
- Thomas Mitchell's Estimates 1845
- Rules for Enginemen
- Locomotives of the Scottish Central Railway
- Dundee and Perth Railway Fares
- Chronology
- Bibliography , Sources
- Thanks
- Index
Continent: Europe
Country: UK
Area: UK Scotland | | Tag cloud: scottish perth caledonian dunblane aberdeen glasgow lner pacifics marshall inch l9th poem enginemen dundee chronology scotland | Tell a friend about this publication  |
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