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The East Coast Main Line is a major trunk railway in the United Kingdom, linking London with Edinburgh. A detailed diagram of the line is housed on this page for technical reasons. There were many lines connecting with collieries etc. branching off the ECML. These are generally not shown.
Edinburgh Castle is a historic castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. It stands on Castle Rock , which has been occupied by humans since at least the Iron Age . There has been a royal castle on the rock since the reign of Malcolm III in the 11th century, and the castle continued to be a royal residence until 1633.
Edinburgh Castle measured 28,705 gross register tons, and was 747 feet (228 m) long with a beam of 84 feet (26 m). [2] She was powered by steam turbines, which drove twin propellers that gave her a service speed of 22 knots (25 mph). [2] She had a passenger capacity of 755—214 in first class and 541 in tourist class—and a crew of 400. [2] [3]
A 242A1 locomotive and standard gauge track at some model railway scales. This page lists the most relevant model railway scale standards in the world. Most standards are regional, but some have followers in other parts of the world outside their native region, most notably NEM and NMRA.
Edinburgh Waverley railway station - the principal mainline station in Edinburgh viewed from Edinburgh Castle. Edinburgh Waverley is the main Network Rail station serving the city. Located in a ravine the heart of the city centre close to Princes Street Gardens, it serves over 14 million passenger journeys per year. [13]
A Japanese H0e scale model railroad One of the smallest (Z scale, 1:220) placed on the buffer bar of one of the larger (live steam, 1:8) model locomotives HO scale (1:87) model of a North American center cab switcher shown with a pencil for size Z scale (1:220) scene of a 2-6-0 steam locomotive being turned. A scratch-built Russell snow plow is ...
Totnes Castle: First Great Western: D1857 47207 BR Bulmers of Hereford [9] The Felixstowe Partnership [12] Cut by CF Booth, Rotherham, January 2005 D1858 47208 BR Cut by British Rail, Dundee TMD, March 1980 D1859 47209 47393 47209 57604 BR Bittern [8] Herbert Austin [7] Pendennis Castle: First Great Western: D1860 47210 BR Blue Circle Cement [7]
The Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway Company received its act of Parliament, the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway Act 1826 (7 Geo. 4. c. xcviii) on 26 May 1826. It was designed as a horse-drawn railway, and its engineer, James Jardine, adopted the track gauge of 4 ft 6 in, which had been used in the West of Scotland.