After mentioning getting a train on the Burns Line in reply to Tartan Hiker yesterday
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=21587
perhaps a brief explanation is called for.
The train service between Girvan and Kilmarnock via Prestwick Airport was improved around ten years ago and relaunched as the Burns Line, as it runs through Burns Country. At Kilmarnock there is a junction and the train will either continue or connect there, either northwards for Glasgow, or south via Dumfries to cross the border at Gretna Green and terminate at Carlisle, just nine miles into England. This is the train service you would use to get from Prestwick Airport to Ferintosh at Dumfries.
The trains used are class 156 diesel powered twin unit SuperSprinters built in 1986 & 1987.
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the bard's death, one of the trains was named The Kilmarnock Edition and a limited edition model of it was produced, as seen here on my home model railway.
The first book of Burns poems to be published, in 1786, was issued at Kilmarnock, and therefore became known as The Kilmarnock Edition. 600 copies were printed and sold for three shillings each. Burns only earned £50 from the Kilmarnock Edition, but it established his reputation as a poet and the following year a further collection was published in Edinburgh from which he earned £800.
Originally Posted by Tattoobradley
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