Tuesday 31 May 2022

A morning at Aberdour, 13th May 2022

 


170403 departs with 2T57 06:58 Tweedbank - Glenrothes with Thornton. This was the last weekday with through services from Tweedbank to the Fife Circle, and of anything but a token service between Kirkcaldy and Glenrothes with Thornton.


43146 (+ 43152) 1A49 0831 Edinburgh - Aberdeen.


43133 (+ 43164) 1B14 04:56 Inverness - Edinburgh. Since this service runs via Aberdeen and Dundee, it continues to run through Fife in the new timetable.


66746 with the last leg of a Royal Scotsman 'Classic' Tour, 1H84 08:07 Dundee - Edinburgh.


Observation Car 99965, with occupants, likely preparing for crossing the Forth Bridge.


43136 (+ 43026) 1A55 09:28 Edinburgh - Aberdeen.


1997 built Plasser & Theurer 08-32U RT Plain Line Tamper DR73808 Alexander Graham Bell 6xxx 08:33 Dundee West T.C. - Slateford Depot.  Something of a survivor, as similar machines have been scrapped or exported.


As 158740 vanished with 1L37 09:36 Edinburgh - Perth, 800108 approaches with 1E11 07:52 Aberdeen - Kings Cross.


221131 passes through with 1V60 08:20 Aberdeen - Plymouth.


800101 with 1W02 07:08 Leeds - Aberdeen.


The last weekday of services through Fife to Inverness, where I remember the Class 25 hauled resumption in October 1975. 170407 1H11 10:37 Edinburgh - Inverness.