Ninewells junction, I remember it as if it was yesterday. Living at Ninewells, I crossed the railway regularly to get to the cliffs by the beach. Happy days!
Brian, These rail are new, only in a few months, there used to be check rails here, they there to keep the main rail steady on the curve, and to stop the sleeper moving as there bolt to each sleeper remembering that the running rail are free to allow for movement through heat. thank for your comments
My aunties used to talk about a charter train they sometimes organised that was something to do with their WI or some other institute with a train to Glamis for a garden party or a run into Dundee or Perth as I think my auntie Bertha Ogilvie was the only car driver of the lot and her tiny old Austin was a bit wheezy. Her mother my aunty Dettie Ogilvie as we called her was an exceptionally rich Perth lady of title who still in the 70's had a butler, a part time cook on the staff and remember getting a right whacking because my brother and I had driven the poor ancient butler mad by ringing the bells all over her huge house and he was old old chap poor bloke. Sadly my aunt Bertha passed when she had a heart attack driving from Perth to Dundee but she was incredibly old herself. My other aunt retired to Alyth to a bungalow a stones throw from the old station. All were students of the family school George Watson's in Edinburgh which back then was a suitable school for ladies. Former MP George Galloway grew up next to Newtyle station I was told, seems he cocked a deaf 'un when they closed the line finally in 80 severing the final link of civilisation to Forfar. It would take little to reinstate the Perth to Forfar line with most the alignment in very good condition, a shame a heritage railway couldn't be formed to do just that thing even if it was just a line from Forfar to Coupar Angus or Coupar Angus to Perth, since the railways have gone those towns dependent on them have withered, decayed with little growth and it used to be a pride thing where berries or taters from Blairgowrie loaded midday would be on the markets next morning in England but even local hauliers like Christen Salvesan have long abandoned the area as they used to haul from stations up into Braemar and other remote towns.
Ed...in the opening scene there is a set of rails set perhaps 12 inches apart, inside the main rails. What are these for? And by the way, I absolutely you vids!
They are wheel catchers, basically these rails are located far more solid than the normal chair'd rails so if a train comes off the railhead instead of it plunging off the side on to a bus or cars, its kept within these twin rails. American bridges have these as standard on most mainline runs and Britain had them on the Tay and Forth bridges because a train hurtling off the side would a) wreck likely any bridge side thus weakening its cross strength and could cause a collapse b) train hurtling off side into the deeps of river, sea etc makes people look a little askance about rail travel. If possible these rails are affixed to not only the sleeper to stop the track snaking but the structure underneath to act as a deep shock absorber. Check rails work with slow speeds but as they found up at London Bridge to Waterloo East, often a EPB would jump the check rail and the drivers would literally be holding the seat with their clenched cheeks hoping the bogie would drop back down and 99.99% they did and with a bone jarring bang too lol
Story, Dundee railway, Old entrance. Late wife, and others. We were Tartan army. And railway lot. They got to smoke in old entrance. One of us dropped a fag on the old entrance. My late wife who was a conductor just was totally observant. Seen smouldering. Then 6 or more of us pissed on it. Nobody noticed apart from 1 who didn't smoke, on the platform. We put it out in 2 minutes he said. Then the SNP, banned smoking bars. Then minimum pricing. Then spy cameras. Then THEY STOLE FROM THEMSELVES.
Well I learnt something there. Thanks for that. Well put together and very enjoyable. It is sad that the old buildings had to go.
Ninewells junction, I remember it as if it was yesterday. Living at Ninewells, I crossed the railway regularly to get to the cliffs by the beach. Happy days!
Brian, These rail are new, only in a few months, there used to be check rails here, they there to keep the main rail steady on the curve, and to stop the sleeper moving as there bolt to each sleeper remembering that the running rail are free to allow for movement through heat. thank for your comments
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My aunties used to talk about a charter train they sometimes organised that was something to do with their WI or some other institute with a train to Glamis for a garden party or a run into Dundee or Perth as I think my auntie Bertha Ogilvie was the only car driver of the lot and her tiny old Austin was a bit wheezy. Her mother my aunty Dettie Ogilvie as we called her was an exceptionally rich Perth lady of title who still in the 70's had a butler, a part time cook on the staff and remember getting a right whacking because my brother and I had driven the poor ancient butler mad by ringing the bells all over her huge house and he was old old chap poor bloke. Sadly my aunt Bertha passed when she had a heart attack driving from Perth to Dundee but she was incredibly old herself. My other aunt retired to Alyth to a bungalow a stones throw from the old station. All were students of the family school George Watson's in Edinburgh which back then was a suitable school for ladies.
Former MP George Galloway grew up next to Newtyle station I was told, seems he cocked a deaf 'un when they closed the line finally in 80 severing the final link of civilisation to Forfar. It would take little to reinstate the Perth to Forfar line with most the alignment in very good condition, a shame a heritage railway couldn't be formed to do just that thing even if it was just a line from Forfar to Coupar Angus or Coupar Angus to Perth, since the railways have gone those towns dependent on them have withered, decayed with little growth and it used to be a pride thing where berries or taters from Blairgowrie loaded midday would be on the markets next morning in England but even local hauliers like Christen Salvesan have long abandoned the area as they used to haul from stations up into Braemar and other remote towns.
Ed...in the opening scene there is a set of rails set perhaps 12 inches apart, inside the main rails. What are these for? And by the way, I absolutely you vids!
They are wheel catchers, basically these rails are located far more solid than the normal chair'd rails so if a train comes off the railhead instead of it plunging off the side on to a bus or cars, its kept within these twin rails. American bridges have these as standard on most mainline runs and Britain had them on the Tay and Forth bridges because a train hurtling off the side would a) wreck likely any bridge side thus weakening its cross strength and could cause a collapse b) train hurtling off side into the deeps of river, sea etc makes people look a little askance about rail travel. If possible these rails are affixed to not only the sleeper to stop the track snaking but the structure underneath to act as a deep shock absorber. Check rails work with slow speeds but as they found up at London Bridge to Waterloo East, often a EPB would jump the check rail and the drivers would literally be holding the seat with their clenched cheeks hoping the bogie would drop back down and 99.99% they did and with a bone jarring bang too lol
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What is this place " Lokee" ?
It is spelt Lochee.
Story, Dundee railway, Old entrance.
Late wife, and others. We were Tartan army.
And railway lot. They got to smoke in old entrance. One of us dropped a fag on the old entrance. My late wife who was a conductor just was totally observant. Seen smouldering.
Then 6 or more of us pissed on it. Nobody noticed apart from 1 who didn't smoke, on the platform.
We put it out in 2 minutes he said.
Then the SNP, banned smoking bars. Then minimum pricing. Then spy cameras.
Then THEY STOLE FROM THEMSELVES.