5120 x 3413 px | 43,3 x 28,9 cm | 17,1 x 11,4 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
August 2008
Ort:
Aviemore & Grantown on Spey, Scotland uk
Weitere Informationen:
The extensive Boat of Garten station features its original buildings. It was originally a parallel junction between the Highland Railway's main line from Perth to Forres and the Great North of Scotland Railway's branch to Craigellachie - this was the original Strathspey Railway, the company being a subsidiary of the GNSR. Today there are two passenger platforms and the yard stores the majority of the SR's rolling stock. From Boat of Garten northwards, track had been lifted and structures demolished by BR in the 1960s. The tracks to Craigellachie and Grantown had left the station extending in a double track formation as far as Croftnahaven, where the GNSR line turned sharply South-East and crossed the River Spey. This curious arrangement was adopted because a signal box for a junction here was deemed too expensive. Leaving Boat of Garten, trains cross the road on the new single track box-girder bridge and pass the site of the original GNSR engine shed, long demolished it is now the site of a permanent way depot. The railway passes though mainly farmland on the re-laid track, which was mostly recovered from Kincardine power station in Fife in the 1990s. 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. Locomotives are normally coaled during the morning, on the south side of the station. This is currently the only station with operational signalling and has two signal boxes, Boat of Garten North and Boat of Garten South. It uses traditional British Railways mechanical semaphore signals.
