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[10] 2010 also saw Newmarket Holidays launching a new catalogue of Festive Season trips and escorted holidays by air to a number of new European and global locations. [11] In June 2013, following the closure of Manston Airport, Newmarket Holidays began operating a number of direct charter flights to Italy from Lydd London Ashford Airport. [12 ...
The Highland Railway (HR) was one of the smaller British railways before the Railways Act 1921, operating north of Perth railway station in Scotland and serving the farthest north of Britain. Based in Inverness , the company was formed by merger in 1865, absorbing over 249 miles (401 km) of line.
The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-85260-508-1. Vallance, H. A. (27 June 1991). Great North of Scotland railway. The History of the Railways of the Scottish Highlands vol 3. David St John Thomas.
The Newmarket High Level railway station was built by the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway on 4 April 1848 as a single platform terminus for the 15-mile (24 km) line from Great Chesterford The line was extended by the Eastern Counties Railway eastwards to Bury St Edmunds on 1 April 1854, but trains had to reverse in or out of the station.
The Highland Main Line is a railway line in Scotland. It is 118 mi (190 km) long and runs through the central Scottish Highlands , mainly following the route of the A9 , and linking a series of small towns and villages with Perth at one end and Inverness at the other.
Aviemore railway station serves the town and tourist resort of Aviemore in the Highlands of Scotland.The station, which is owned by Network Rail (NR) and managed by ScotRail, is on the Highland Main Line, 83 miles 31 chains (134.2 kilometres) from Perth, between Kingussie and Carrbridge, and is also the southern terminus of the Strathspey preserved railway.
The "Highland Chieftain", the daily London North Eastern Railway service from London King's Cross to Inverness and vice versa also calls here. Falkirk is also served by the railway station at Falkirk High. East Coast InterCity 125 departing Falkirk Grahamston with a southbound Highland Chieftain service to London King's Cross.
British Railways Camping Coach Holidays: A Tour of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s. Vol. Scenes from the Past: 30 (Part Two). Foxline. ISBN 1-870119-53-3. Quick, Michael (2022) [2001]. Railway passenger stations in Great Britain: a chronology (PDF). version 5.04. Railway & Canal Historical Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November ...