Lochmaben Castle & it's fower lochs

**Alan H** · 10th April 06, 09:03 PM

GORGEOUS...

By the way, that's a nice tartan, the gray one you've got on. What is it?

**Pour1Malt** · 11th April 06, 06:24 AM

Originally Posted by sorcererdale

Pour1Malt, who is taking the pictures or do you have a tripod along? Very nice though, I do have to get over that way some time in my life.

DALE.

the wans o' me are done by mai bonnie Scots lass....

the aithers are by mysel...

**Pour1Malt** · 11th April 06, 06:25 AM

Originally Posted by Alan H

GORGEOUS...

By the way, that's a nice tartan, the gray one you've got on. What is it?

Grey Douglas.... (matches ev'rthin'!)

**Pour1Malt** · 11th April 06, 06:29 AM

Originally Posted by Mike1

This photo was taken in Dollar, on 6 January. We never have grass that green until very late-March or early-April -

It's a pity that you cannot make out Castle Gloom, in the background.

looks like a bonny wee toon... niver been there mysel.... is thot the Burn o' Sorrow?

**cessna152towser** · 11th April 06, 06:45 AM

Yes, looks like the Burn of Sorrow in Mike1's photo. Dollar is a bonny wee place and you can park the car at the retail outlet at Tillicoultry and leave the wife there and take a nice walk to Dollar and back along the old railway.

**Pour1Malt** · 11th April 06, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by cessna152towser

Yes, looks like the Burn of Sorrow in Mike1's photo. Dollar is a bonny wee place and you can park the car at the retail outlet at Tillicoultry and leave the wife there and take a nice walk to Dollar and back along the old railway.

sounds like music tae ma lugs!

ai'll hae tae mak a trip up.....

**Mike1** · 11th April 06, 11:30 AM

The Burn of Sorrow and the Burn of Care meet, between Castle Campbell and Dollar, but I think it is still called the Burn of Sorrow beyond that point.

My special lady was raised in Dollar, so we were there to visit some of her friends. I could see myself living there, quite easily.

There are other areas that are really beautiful, but there is something about the Foothills. My first trip across, I was staying in Bridge of Allan and the bus trip from Stirling Uni across to the Sauchie/Alloa area was fantastic.

Sorry to hijack your thread.

The moderators will likely take me to task for it.

**Mike1** · 11th April 06, 11:40 AM

Aw, what the heck, I've already stepped over the line, so what's one more step?

C152T, since you mentioned the old railway, HERE is an old picture of of a train coming from the mine.

**Pour1Malt** · 11th April 06, 12:01 PM

fur the record-

ai dinnae min Mikes hijack... :rolleyes:

**cessna152towser** · 11th April 06, 12:22 PM

The train looks incidental against the backdrop of the massive Ochil Hillls. The Devon Valley walk is one of my favourites as you can set off from the old railway station site behind the shopping mall in either direction, to Alloa, or to Dollar. The Tillicoultry Viaduct which the train was crossing is no more and the walk takes a detour to bypass the gap.