Oil Leak in the Snow
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Oil Leak in the Snow by Ian Dodds as part of the Geograph project.
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Oil Leak in the Snow
Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 23 Jan 2021
Presuming it is oil but could be diesel I suppose - at any rate the farmer's tractor needs some maintenance. You can see a thin wavy line in the snow at the bottom of the picture. The gate is at the Southern point of what used to be the Wilsontown Railway Junction. A railway, still shown on 1950s OS maps, branched off the still-running Edinburgh-Carstairs line here. I didn't see any obvious signs of this in the snow - just livestock pens, a couple of metal huts and a small chicken shed - but it does explain the unexpected busyness of the terrain round here.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.771473
Longitude
-3.609942