Boat of Garten - The Full Circle

... Highlands, na das muss ich mir anschauen

"Go raibh maith agat" für die Info ...

Bevor man das RWP herunterläd und installiert, wären für den Einen oder Anderen vielleicht ein paar mehr Infos und Bilder ganz hilfreich.

Zitat von Baw326

Sehr nett gemacht und addiert mehr als 150 nm im schottischen Hochland.

Hähh? 150 Nanometer? 150 nautische Meilen?

Und vor allem mehr Informationen zur Strecke:

• Was braucht man dafür?
• Bilder
• Generelle Infors (Länge, Erbauer, usw.)

Wäre sehr nützlich.

If you join this group on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/1070113816378979/ you will have access to this route and more.

Requirements are;

Bath to Templecombe or European assets Pack (Steam payware) Western lines of Scotland (Steam payware version) The West Coast Main Line North (Steam payware) The Isle of Wight (Steam payware)

From the route PDF

Boat of Garten the full Circle.Boat of Garten to CraigellachieThe line was opened on 1 July 1863 between Dufftown and Abernethy (later Nethy Bridge). It wasextended to meet up with the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway (later the Highland Railway) atBoat of Garten on 1 August 1866. The Strathspey Railway actually met the Highland line atTullochgorum, some 3 miles north of Boat of Garten, but the two lines ran parallel until reachingBoat, the physical junction being to the south of Boat of Garten station. The same year, 1866, sawthe Strathspey Railway become part of the larger Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR).The railway served the numerous distilleries that operated in the Spey Valley, many of thesedistilleries having their own small tank engines, or 'pugs' as they were known.In 1923, the railway became part of the London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) and throughpassenger services were advertised from Boat of Garten to the South via Aberdeen. The line becamepart of British Railways in 1948 and many cost-saving measures were considered, including theintroduction of diesel rail buses in the late 1950s.The Strathspey line closed to passengers on 18 October 1965, the same date as the closure of theHighland line between Aviemore and Forres. Grantown on Spey, which had previously been servedby two separate stations, was now left without any rail connection.Goods traffic lingered on for a further three years, mostly the whisky trains, until this too ceased on4 November 1968. The track was lifted the following year. The short section between Aberlour andDufftown remained open for goods traffic until the end of 1971. The Strathspey Heritage Railwayruns at Boat of Garten on the Highland Railway's Aviemore to Forres route but no part of the originalStrathspey Railway has been preserved. However, the section between Ballindalloch andCraigellachie has now been converted into part of the Speyside Way, which runs betweenBallindalloch and Spey Bay.( there is also a heritage line from Keith Town to Dufftown).Many of the railway's attractive stone-built station buildings still exist today; some have beenconverted for private usage, while others are near derelict. The former station building at Aberlourhas been converted into a tearoom and visitor centre. Two of the three bridges over the Spey stillsurvive: the joint road/rail cast-iron arch bridge at Carron and the impressive lattice girder bridge atBallindalloch, the latter is now a Category A listed building.This Train Simulator version was bought about by playing the “Modern Aviemore to Boat of Garten”route (Available from uk train sim, not built by me). I play a lot of golf in this area and had looked atthe route from Boat of Garten to Craigellachie and then on to Elgin . The route has grown fromthere. Also available on Uktrain sim is “Keith to Dufftown” and “Dufftown to Craigellachie. (By otherroute builders) This route fills in the gap

There is a mediafire link posted on UKTS, but I am not clear if this is with the authors permission, or whether it may be posted on other forums.

Feasgar math,

... just contacted the authors via FB , which is absolutely not my "favourate" way of communication, but anyhow ...
Since our last year's holidays in Scotland, I have a special interest in anything scottish (... railways)

Also auf UKTS wurde gepostet dass es eine "free route" sei und der Mediafire Link geteilt werden dürfe.
Beitrag:
http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic.php?f=361&t=149271

LG

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