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Pages in category "Closed railway lines in Scotland" The following 110 pages are in this category, out of 110 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Notable vessels built included the early Royal Mail Steam Packet Company liners Clyde, Dee, Solway and Tweed in 1841, SS Thetis of 1857, which John Scott (1830–1903) financed himself to test his theory about high pressure steam in the compound engine, which worked at about 120 lb f /in 2 in Thetis, [7] the early tanker Narragannsett in 1903, the barque Archibald Russell, the British S-class ...
J D Wetherspoon (branded variously as Wetherspoon or Wetherspoons, and colloquially known as Spoons) is a pub company operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company was founded in 1979 by Tim Martin and is based in Watford. It operates the sub-brand of Lloyds No.1 bars, and 56 Wetherspoon hotels. [3]
The West Coast Main Line is a major trunk railway in the United Kingdom, linking London with Glasgow.The Watford DC lines are intricately linked with the southern part of the WCML and are also shown in full.
The closure of Ravenscraig in 1992 signalled the end of large-scale steel making in Scotland. [8] It led to a direct loss of 770 jobs, and another 10,000 jobs linked to these [ 9 ] (although the nearby steel plants at Dalzell in Motherwell and Clydebridge in Cambuslang were in 2012 still in operation under the ownership of Tata Steel Europe ...
IBM railway station (formerly known as IBM Halt) is a currently disused railway station on the Inverclyde Line, 25 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (41 km) west of Glasgow Central.. Clinging to the south slope of Spango Valley on the Glasgow-Wemyss Bay line, IBM Halt was opened on 9 May 1978 [1] by British Rail to serve what was at that time a thriving IBM computer manufacturing plant, employing over 4,000 people.
Grimsby Town was opened on 29 February 1848, when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway opened its line from New Holland to Grimsby. [1] It also served as the terminus of the later East Lincolnshire Railway to Boston, until the closure of the ELR line to passengers in October 1970 following the Beeching cuts.
A replica of the locomotive North Star at the site of the first station. The Bristol and Exeter Railway arrived in Weston-super-Mare on 14 June 1841. This was not the route that serves today's station, but rather a single-track branch line from Weston Junction railway station, midway between the present-day Worle and Uphill junctions, which terminated at a small station in Regent Street close ...