Love the Dacha and cricket pavillion style stations

Looks like fun times.

what if u try and do one with audio

We never new they'd escape back then. BR were really final about steam never running again - and many of us assumed 70013 etc would be trapped in these gardens forever. For that reason the place had the feel of a prison for me. All the merrygorounds etc just made it worse.

As an apprentice in 1964/5 i went into firebox to change fuse plug this saved us dropping the fire bars .k mcleod

Thanks for posting this, great footage and historical record. Never saw those viaducts. Are any of these lines still open? Have been to Strathspey, Nairn etc👍

I can remember watching this track lifting and dismantling at the closed Murtle Station where the railway crossed the grounds of the Camphill School on a bridge across the access road. It must have been about November 1970. I would only have been 7 years old but I remember it so distinctly.

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Dreamy film. It must have been a magnificent line.

Thank you the late great Alan Bloom.

My Dad, Akick Mackenzie,who lived in the station houses at Lochluichart, spent his life walking and managing the line between Dingwall and Achnasheen and my Grandad was the signal man at Garve station and the train was our main source of travel and communication. Billy Mackenzie

Should never been closed.

Imagine the quality if were made today. Just came too late.

The world-famous Flying Scotsman was in attendance that day

Wow, such a waste of enineering, effort , labour , sweat and everything else that was put into building these lines every time someone decides to pull the plug. I hope the remaining lines prosper😃 Thanks for the video, subscribed👍

Another great film of a railway that shouldn't have closed, it served a fairly remote area which even today is a long journey by road in good conditions.

Fantastic film and unique footage of this long lost railway network, what a real tragedy and how it has made a lot of these communities more remote and more reliant on the motor vehicle. These railways were closed after Beeching had finished his pruning job and a lot of these places have grown in size, so a railway link would have made a lot of sense, but as per usual the short term thinking of the government of the day saw no future. I also think the mindless attitude of selling off pieces of trackbed for redevelopment rather than keeping in case of reinstatement or for footpaths or cycle routes was also very short sighted. Sad that these things took place in my lifetime.

Some elegant and well kept stations through some gorgeous countryside. An ethereal beauty to the film. Some of the building styles are typical of that whole Aberdeen and inland area and have a real grace too them. Thanks for posting the video it was a real treat.😃

Wonderful. No elth and safety nonsense. Just keep out of the way of 140-odd tons of Oliver Cromwell!

The amount of workers going to elgin nowadays from the coast that coastal line would have made money

1:28 - the big gap between tracks at Garve was intended to give clearance to trains carrying fishing boats between the east & west coasts, to save them a long and hazardous sea journey. Such a pity the scheme was never put into operation.

Fantastic archive! What's the best way to contact you - I'd like to talk to you about permission to use some of it in a documentary?

This is a brilliant find. I used to live near one of the stations that is still standing, and to see it when the line was still working is a treat. Imagine if BR had not closed it, and the potential for tourists visiting all those distilleries along the line... Short-sighted.

Hi is there any way I could speak to you about this video please?

Can u please make A documentary where you talk about this really a little bit? It be lovely to know a bit more about it!

Tragic...all these lines lost...thanks to your ever caring and forward thinking government/s??

Good video

Think of the tourist income lost....... I'm sure many would love to travel that line.

Nice footage, was the same DMU doing the complete circuit (Keith jct, Cairnie, Tillynaught, Elgin, Craigellachie and back to Keith jct) or were these sepparate services? The coast line would be a major tourist attraction today, as would be the Glen line. Thinking that today's boring main line between Keith jct and Elgin was just of minor importance when looking at a 1950's BR railway map (thin line) and both the Glen and Coast route boasting a fair share of the trains between Inverness and Aberdeen, and then 10 years later it was all done.

Fabulous! A terrific record of a truly lovely line.

Some real gems lost there :(

Great film that has brought back many happy memories as I spent my childhood and early teenage years in Aberlour. My Dad was a relief signalman whose home station was Craigellachie. On the day of this film he was the signalman at Knockando. Unfortunately he doesn't appear in the film.

Thanks for showing this sad but historically significant footage. I walked the abandoned tracked of this line in the 90s and often wondered what it would have looked like when the rails were in place. Such a pity this line had to go. It was one of the most beautiful lines in the UK.

What a shame this shut. Another part of Scotland cut off forever by rail.

Richboro at around that time when in storage had 'Poor old Boro' chalked on the side tanks.The 2 Austerities in use that I used to see there were named Robert and Alison.

Wow - pure nostalgia - and you're quite correct, no factory there now - just houses. I used to call on the factory and process engineers in my days as a mechanical sales engineer and well remember the railway, albeit not with the steam locos. So I welcome the opportunity to view them now and thanks for sharing it! Ken

Very good video of a line long gone - this was a very picturesque line, thanks for sharing it. Ken

I grew up in Kyle and still live in Lochalsh. I used to love hearing the old class 37's. So much better than the awful wee things they use now. When we were wee it was fun to walk along the tracks for a couple of miles to go swimming at wee beaches that weren't accessible otherwise and you always heard the engine coming long before it got to you so you could duck out the way. Good times.

Super footage of a line I first got to know 2 years after this was taken. Great to see it as a working ralway. Thanks for posting this.

Super video clip!

Good video clips from both locations.

not much changed then, bar the bridge

A shame, but at least there's hope for one!

Great video, its nice to see some actual footage for once; especially of such decent quality. Do you happen to have any other information on these old horses? Were they scrapped or preserved?

The world seemed so much better in 8mm film.

It was a nice run on the GNSR Branch from Tillynaught to Banff Harbour. I travelled on the very last Train on the evening of Saturday 4th July 1964 when I was 16 years old. It was packed to capacity. What a shame it wasn't always like that. The line may have had a longer life-span. Charles Beaton (late Macduff) Woodside, Aberdeen

Thank you for memories of last week of Train Services, via the Coast and via the Glen, Alan. I also liked the short one of the run to Banff. I travelled on the Last Train to Tillynaught in July 1964. Unforgettable, but sad days on the GNSR too. Charles Beaton (ex Macduff), Woodside, Aberdeen