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Their purpose was to convey minerals to market from the outcropping coal deposits that had encouraged industrial activity in the area from an early date. Several waggonways were built: the Fordell Railway, the Elgin Railway, the Halbeath Railway and others, with the objective of connecting collieries and quarries with harbours on the Firth of ...
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Elgin railway station is a railway station serving the town of Elgin, Moray in Scotland. The station is managed and served by ScotRail and is on the Aberdeen to Inverness Line , between Keith and Forres , measured 12 miles 18 chains (19.7 km) from Forres.
Elgin was opened by the Aurora, Elgin and Chicago Railway (AE&C) on May 23, 1903. [1] The AE&C became bankrupt in 1919, and was split into two divisions – the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad (CA&E) to handle interurban affairs, and the Aurora, Elgin and Fox River Electric Company (AE&FRE) to deal with the Fox River Valley, in 1921.
The first railway station in Forres was located at the end of Market Street. On the OS map for 1863, this road is named appropriately "Old Station Road". The station building was located between the current track and signal box , and the former goods loop (which was the original main line, before the junction was constructed).
The Elgin operates under lease the line of the Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway Company, called herein the Eastern, which extends from South Chicago, Ill., to Gary and Cavanaugh, Ind., and the property of the Joliet & Blue Island Railway Company, herein called the Joliet, whose tracks are all located in and in the immediate vicinity of the ...
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Big Timber Road is a commuter railroad station in the Kane County portion of Elgin, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. The station is the western terminus of Metra's Milwaukee District West Line. It is 39.8 miles (64.1 km) away from Chicago Union Station, the eastern terminus of the line. [2]