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    Another Scottish line to be reopened

    Any Borders Railway extension will have to wait, since a green light has been given to the reopening of the Levenmouth line (as yours truly predicted here some years back). https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-49279810 This will reconnect the largest urban area in...
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    More Scottish railway expansion

    It's not just the publicly owned lines that are being extended: engineering works on Speyside bring the dream of trains returning to Grantown that bit closer to reality http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-26191444
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    A new resource for UK modellers?

    The establishment of National Rail's Virtual Archive could provide us with access to some*fascinating and*very useful material. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17218553 * And here's the site's link http://www.networkrail.co.uk/virtualarchive/
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    Blasted Rock!

    Along with the buildings for the Kyle line, I've been spending quite some time experimenting with rockfaces. When the railway was extended from its original terminus at Stromeferry to Kyle between 1893 and 1897, it was the most expensive stretch of line ever built in the UK (at an average of...
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    Buildingz frae Scotland

    It's just over two months since I posted anything in my similarly-named thread in the Freeware Section, but as before, the silence doesn't necessarily mean that creation has ground to a halt: far from it. Nearly all the assets I've been working on over the past few months are for specific...
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