STRATHSPEY RAILWAY BOAT OF GARTEN STATION SCOTLAND PEOPLE ENTERING OR LEAVING THE COACHES OF THE STEAM TRAIN
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JOHN BRACEGIRDLE / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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5840 x 3893 px | 49.4 x 33 cm | 19.5 x 13 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
7 May 2022Location:
SCOTLANDMore information:
The Strathspey Railway (SR) in Badenoch and Strathspey, Highland, Scotland, operates a 10 miles (16 km) heritage railway from Aviemore to Broomhill, Highland via Boat of Garten, part of the former Inverness and Perth Junction Railway (later part of Highland Railway) which linked Aviemore with Forres. It is one of only a handful of primary/secondary main lines to be preserved in Britain today. Boat of Garten also has the railway's only water column where the locomotives stop to take water on their way north through the station. There are two signal boxes, Boat of Garten North and Boat of Garten South and signalling uses traditional British Railways mechanical semaphore signalling; it is the crossing point on the line when there are two trains running. Both single track sections are currently worked by staff and ticket with the section from Boat of Garten South to Aviemore Speyside about to be converted to Electric Key Token working.