The ghostly tracks of an old railway built to serve a naval armaments and supply depot remain in place on … More
Category: Transport
Abandoned Boats
These images show just a few of the abandoned boats hauled out of the water at Charlestown Harbour, in Fife. … More
Gorton – a lost halt on the West Highland Railway
Gorton was, without a doubt, the most isolated of the halts on the West Highland Railway, the result of its … More
Secrets of the Succoth Glen Superfortress
On a remote Scottish hillside lie the remains of a USAF aircraft which crashed to earth, killing all passengers and … More
Ben Nevis in a Nutshell
Henry Alexander’s Ford Model T was not the only vehicle to scale Britain’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis. Almost 50 years … More
The Mini rival that failed to spark
While the Rootes Group was busy developing the Hillman Imp as a small car to rival the Mini and put … More
Censoring Britain’s worst rail disaster
An ‘utter wastage of the stuff of heroism’ was how the Daily Record described Britain’s worst railway disaster. Hundreds of … More
Colinton Tunnel
Forth Tunnel Proposal
As Victorian railway engineers pushed north through Scotland, they encountered two significant obstacles – the Firth of Forth and the … More
Lochee Life Murals
A series of black and white murals celebrating life in Lochee over the years grace the walls of the town’s … More
Secret Scotland 