Why were the videos at the end of American trains. Are there no Scottish videos available? Also the omission of Prestonpans and the coal branch to Cockenzie Power Station is very disappointing. Otherwise very interesting.
Not in East Lothian, but nearby. I used to take the train from Joppa to Portobello going to school, come home for lunch, then go back in the afternoon. I’d keep the penny hapney to buy sweeties and walk home in the afternoon. When you got on the train you had to make sure there was an adult in the compartment as there was no handle on the inside. The only way to get out when. You where wee was to lower the window with the leather strop, and reach out to turn the handle, but if you didn’t have the strength to turn the handle you couldn’t get out. Bus from the end of the promenade to Bath St in Porty was tuppence but it only got me half way to school. Dr Beecham put an end to that, and the bus went to thrupence , so I just walked to school after that. Unless it was raining cats and dugs. All the kids would be soaked. We would stamp our feet on the wooden seats in the shelter out in the playground chanting “ we want a halfy “ Quite often it worked ! Short pants in a school uniform, think AC/DC Angus Young. It would kill yi, or cure yi.
Cld you remember the big signal house on a hill at where dingo the donkey was there’s an Asda just over from it ,at the bottom off it used to be mglynns scrap yard ,I’m trying to find it .thnks
@@Crosshatch1212 hello ! I do remember Dingo the Donkey. I also remember the gantry you could cross to get over the tracks ? and the signal box you refer too. I think the Leith goods line paralleled the right of way that Sir Harry L’s bypass occupies now. The scrapper must have existed after I left for Canada end of 65. I recall the collier locomotive shed I think where the tank engines used to shunt at the coal pit. Was this colliery called The Klondike? I remember kids in my class who liver at the Jewel Cottages. Mathew Lynch ? When I was in the Life Boys, ( not for long ) we played football at a pitch there. I spent a lot of play time up in that neck of the woods. Do recall the old stone bridge that crossed the burn near Dingos patch, that took you up to Brunstane Farm ? It had a cross chiseled into the stone wall. Story was a young boy jumped from the bridge trying to get onto the large tree that grew up from the stream bank, but fell. There were allotments near the rail junction. One memory I do have about that railway line near the signal gantry, a Edinburgh bound steam locomotive running light rolled by and it had what we call here in Canada a “ hot box “. One of the bearing journal boxes on the tender was on fire from the lack of lubrication. If you want a good read about what an overheated bearing journal can lead to, read about the Mississauga train derailment. That was a big deal here in the 80’s. There was a full government enquiry into that. I think over 200,000 people were evacuated. It took them three days before they evacuated my neighbourhood.
@@georgerenton965 wow you do .I went to brunstane school primary .Glad you remember it too .i used to play in it as a kid then went on to play on the newcraighall bing on my motorbikes .had a big brother who moved to New Zealand b Scott .thnks a lot Magdalene kid here ,hope alls well for you n Thnks a lot .peace n blessings to you .
@@Crosshatch1212 I went to Saint Johns, then miraculously became a Protestant when they opened up the new high rise Portobello Secondary school next door. I lived in Coillesdene Grove, up the hill from the end of the prom. The open water paddling pool was still there before the privy, became a sewer control facility. It was a large bus shelter build on the spot where the Edinburgh cable trams, ended and the overhead electrified system continued down to Mussleburgh. To be clear I wasn’t born yet when the trams ran. There was a big sinister looking closed tram depot in Portobello near where Figgate burn crossed down to the Porty power station, and potteries. When the busses took over they had a new garage at Seafield. Dad was a lorry driver, so spent summers driving him around the bend.
@georgerenton965 wild my dad worked on demolishing the powers tatian down he was a digger driver .funny thing is he's in a photo on a video on u tube right at the front ,At summer time I think it had to have been that year he took Mr out in a jcb. Got some good memories of my dad and his jcb driving ,yeagh I swam in porty open air pool , I'm in the 58 stage ,lol thnks on the info ,
Dunbar wasn't on a branch line. It was on the mainline south to Berwick. The other branch lines were to Gifford and Macmerry. There was a branch line to Gullane.
I’m trying to find an old train signal station house that was in Edinburgh on the millar hill to portobello or to the freight terminal then next stop would be Waverley
@@Crosshatch1212 you mean a signal box? All of the boxes have since been demolished. There was a large box near to the pedestrian foot bridge over the ECML at Portobello East just to the east of the Freightliner terminal and west of the Waverley line and Joppa station. The next box I remember was at Monktonhall junction which controlled trains to and from Millerhill and towards Smeaton. Then the next was at the straight just east of Wallyford station and the junction to the Wallyford branch line to Wallyford coal mine.
@@ronaldweir712 Yeagh it was on a mound right underneath it was a tunnel for niddrie burn and we also used to slide down that on cardboard and linoleum ,last guy got it correct .
Why were the videos at the end of American trains. Are there no Scottish videos available? Also the omission of Prestonpans and the coal branch to Cockenzie Power Station is very disappointing. Otherwise very interesting.
Not in East Lothian, but nearby. I used to take the train from Joppa to Portobello going to school, come home for lunch, then go back in the afternoon. I’d keep the penny hapney to buy sweeties and walk home in the afternoon. When you got on the train you had to make sure there
was an adult in the compartment as there was no handle on the inside. The only way to get out when. You where wee was to lower the window
with the leather strop, and reach out to turn the handle, but if you didn’t have the strength to turn the handle you couldn’t get out.
Bus from the end of the promenade to Bath St in Porty was tuppence but it only got me half way to school. Dr Beecham put an end to that, and the
bus went to thrupence , so I just walked to school after that. Unless it was raining cats and dugs. All the kids would be soaked. We would stamp
our feet on the wooden seats in the shelter out in the playground chanting “ we want a halfy “ Quite often it worked ! Short pants in a school
uniform, think AC/DC Angus Young. It would kill yi, or cure yi.
Cld you remember the big signal house on a hill at where dingo the donkey was there’s an Asda just over from it ,at the bottom off it used to be mglynns scrap yard ,I’m trying to find it .thnks
@@Crosshatch1212 hello ! I do remember Dingo the Donkey. I also remember the gantry you could cross to get over the tracks ? and the signal box
you refer too. I think the Leith goods line paralleled the right of way that Sir Harry L’s bypass occupies now. The scrapper must have existed after
I left for Canada end of 65. I recall the collier locomotive shed I think where the tank engines used to shunt at the coal pit. Was this colliery called
The Klondike? I remember kids in my class who liver at the Jewel Cottages. Mathew Lynch ? When I was in the Life Boys, ( not for long ) we played
football at a pitch there. I spent a lot of play time up in that neck of the woods. Do recall the old stone bridge that crossed the burn near Dingos
patch, that took you up to Brunstane Farm ? It had a cross chiseled into the stone wall. Story was a young boy jumped from the bridge trying to
get onto the large tree that grew up from the stream bank, but fell. There were allotments near the rail junction. One memory I do have about
that railway line near the signal gantry, a Edinburgh bound steam locomotive running light rolled by and it had what we call here in Canada a
“ hot box “. One of the bearing journal boxes on the tender was on fire from the lack of lubrication. If you want a good read about what an
overheated bearing journal can lead to, read about the Mississauga train derailment. That was a big deal here in the 80’s. There was a full
government enquiry into that. I think over 200,000 people were evacuated. It took them three days before they evacuated my neighbourhood.
@@georgerenton965 wow you do .I went to brunstane school primary .Glad you remember it too .i used to play in it as a kid then went on to play on the newcraighall bing on my motorbikes .had a big brother who moved to New Zealand b Scott .thnks a lot Magdalene kid here ,hope alls well for you n Thnks a lot .peace n blessings to you .
@@Crosshatch1212 I went to Saint Johns, then miraculously became a Protestant when they opened up the new high rise Portobello Secondary
school next door. I lived in Coillesdene Grove, up the hill from the end of the prom. The open water paddling pool was still there before the privy,
became a sewer control facility. It was a large bus shelter build on the spot where the Edinburgh cable trams, ended and the overhead electrified
system continued down to Mussleburgh. To be clear I wasn’t born yet when the trams ran. There was a big sinister looking closed tram depot
in Portobello near where Figgate burn crossed down to the Porty power station, and potteries. When the busses took over they had a new garage
at Seafield. Dad was a lorry driver, so spent summers driving him around the bend.
@georgerenton965 wild my dad worked on demolishing the powers tatian down he was a digger driver .funny thing is he's in a photo on a video on u tube right at the front ,At summer time I think it had to have been that year he took Mr out in a jcb. Got some good memories of my dad and his jcb driving ,yeagh I swam in porty open air pool , I'm in the 58 stage ,lol thnks on the info ,
Very disappointed that Prestonpans didn’t feature in this video
Showing film of a foreign steam loco and carriages. Really ??
Dunbar wasn't on a branch line. It was on the mainline south to Berwick. The other branch lines were to Gifford and Macmerry. There was a branch line to Gullane.
I’m trying to find an old train signal station house that was in Edinburgh on the millar hill to portobello or to the freight terminal then next stop would be Waverley
@@Crosshatch1212 you mean a signal box? All of the boxes have since been demolished. There was a large box near to the pedestrian foot bridge over the ECML at Portobello East just to the east of the Freightliner terminal and west of the Waverley line and Joppa station. The next box I remember was at Monktonhall junction which controlled trains to and from Millerhill and towards Smeaton. Then the next was at the straight just east of Wallyford station and the junction to the Wallyford branch line to Wallyford coal mine.
@@ronaldweir712 Yeagh it was on a mound right underneath it was a tunnel for niddrie burn and we also used to slide down that on cardboard and linoleum ,last guy got it correct .
A lot been missed out and some info not right pity ok yes