1963 - Banff Train, at Tillynaught.
BR Standard 2MT 2-6-0 78045 running round its train at Tillynaught station, in August 1963.
The loco was withdrawn in January 1966, ans scrapped in April. Four examples were preserved, and one of these is being rebuilt as a 'new' BR Standard 2MT 2-6-2T.
The branch line from here to Banff closed in July 1964, and the 'main' line (the Moray Coast Line, on the left behind the bushes) closed in 1968.
Today (2020) the station site is mostly overgrown, but the station house (out of shot) still exists.
Restored from an under-exposed unfocussed grainy motion-blurred original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
1963 - Banff Train, at Tillynaught.
BR Standard 2MT 2-6-0 78045 running round its train at Tillynaught station, in August 1963.
The loco was withdrawn in January 1966, ans scrapped in April. Four examples were preserved, and one of these is being rebuilt as a 'new' BR Standard 2MT 2-6-2T.
The branch line from here to Banff closed in July 1964, and the 'main' line (the Moray Coast Line, on the left behind the bushes) closed in 1968.
Today (2020) the station site is mostly overgrown, but the station house (out of shot) still exists.
Restored from an under-exposed unfocussed grainy motion-blurred original..
Original slide - photographer unknown