Carstairs station and yards, 1986
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Carstairs station and yards, 1986
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 27 Jun 1986
View SE, towards Carlisle and the south, also Edinburgh leftwards from a junction just out of sight beyond the Carriage Yards - where earlier there had also been the Locomotive Depot. Carstairs is a major junction on the ex-Caledonian WCML from Glasgow, which was electrified in 1974, the line to Edinburgh being electrified in 1989.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.690859
Longitude
-3.670899