A Day Trip to North-east Scotland Coast

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Our next call was at the grand old country railway station of Bridge of Dun, to which Queen Victoria travelled in the nineteenth century. The station was on the old main line from Glasgow to Aberdeen via Forfar, and was a junction for the four mile branch line to the town of Brechin but now hosts only the Caledonian Railway, a heritage railway which runs from here to Brechin.

Here is one of the Caledonian Railway's locomotives, "Old Fettercairn"

I entered Old Fettercairn by the faraway door from where I followed Alasdair in a dark and claustrophobic clamber through the engine room, during which I became jammed at one particularly narrow point, (must lose weight!) and we eventually re-appeared at the nearer cab end. The locomotive is a deisel-electric, in which a deisel powered generator creates electricity to drive the electric traction motors. This photo was taken with flash in the darkness of the engine compartment. Passing through a deisel locomotive from one end to the other while wearing a kilt - does that qualify as a new kilted activity for this forum?

Another deisel locomotive was working with a track ballasting train.

I was invited along for a ride in the cab.

Darkness was falling by the time we reached the other end of the line at the grand Victorian terminus station at Brechin. The glass canopies over the platforms were demolished a few years ago at the behest of the Health and Safety people but the metal columns which supported the canopies still stand.

And so, after a stop for an evening meal in Dundee it was time to head for home.
That's all folks.

[nloken]

Wonderful pictures, good sir! Thank you for sharing!

Looks like a great little trip, and getting a ride along in a locomotive sure does put some icing on that cake..

[Highlander31]

Nice photos, Alex. You always take us on such interesting trips. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable in an engine compartment in a kilt.

[Ozark Ridge Rider]

Great pictures, Alex. I really enjoy your posts.

Dan

[sydnie7]

[snip] I entered Old Fettercairn by the faraway door from where I followed Alasdair in a dark and claustrophobic clamber through the engine room, during which I became jammed at one particularly narrow point, (must lose weight!) and we eventually re-appeared at the nearer cab end. The locomotive is a deisel-electric, in which a deisel powered generator creates electricity to drive the electric traction motors. This photo was taken with flash in the darkness of the engine compartment. Passing through a deisel locomotive from one end to the other while wearing a kilt - does that qualify as a new kilted activity for this forum? [snip]

Perhaps that is where the InstaKilt would be your best choice?

Cool photos and you look right at home at the helm of that Tiger, Alex!