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BATTLE FOR THE NORTH: THE TAY AND FORTH BRIDGES AND THE 19TH CENTURY RAILWAY WARS BY CHARLES McKEAN (GRANTA, GBP20)
FORGET the Orient Express or any of those tourist-trap luxury deals that masquerade as the world's greatest rail journeys. One of the best of the lot sits slap-bang on our own doorstep. It runs from Edinburgh's Waverley Station and fetches up 75 minutes later at Tay Bridge Station in Dundee. First Scotrail's diesel units may have been built for utility rather than any grandeur or comfort and the stretch through Fife is slow and winding, but it's the beginning and the end of the journey that really count.See the full content of this document
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History Made in Scotland From Girders
Shortly after leaving Edinburgh the train reaches the Queensferry narrows and rumbles over the Victorian architectural wonder that is the Forth Railway Bridge, all mighty steel columns and ochre latticework. Journey's end is also prett...
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