#Bo&039;ness & Kinneil Railway

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Didn't Make The Post -- AI Artwork in my Fan Of... Series

Step into a new dimension of art with @PhotosByJez's latest Fan Of... challenge! From docks to digital realms, see how AI transforms ordinary into extraordinary. #AIartwork #FanOfSeries #DigitalArtExploration

Hi all 😁 Feel free to join this weekly challenge whenever you think, “I’m a fan of…” (see below for how-to). I know this week was meant to be more re-imaginings of the Bo’ness & Kinneil Steam Locomotive, but I went a different route 😉 This week’s Fan Of… #235 is images that didn’t make my post for Susan’s Spies, Lies & Digital Skies: Clandestine Meeting. One of my thoughts was to have the…

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Cows 'n' Clag

Cows ‘n’ Clag

The roast beef of Olde England utterly unconcerned by the passing of the noisy smoke belching beast; mulching is way more important! Enjoy the grass guys it won’t be long before you’re on the plate – sadly for you it’ll be the dinner plate and not the footplate.

You can just see the first hint of autumn colour in the tree tops and the gone to seed Rose Bay Willow Herb – aka ‘railway lupins’ on…

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Bo'ness Steam Locomotive Re-Imagined As AI Artwork in my Fan Of... Series

🚂✨ Journey into imagination with our latest AI art transformation! The iconic Bo'ness Steam Locomotive is reborn in fantastical worlds, from steampunk cities to alien landscapes. See how technology revives history in our #FanOfSeries #aiartwork

Hi all 😁 Feel free to join this weekly challenge whenever you think, “I’m a fan of…” (see below for how-to). This week’s Fan Of… #234 is AI-assisted artwork featuring the Bo’ness Steam Locomotive. This old steam locomotive runs a short tourist route out of Bo’ness Station to Kinneil on the southern shores of the Firth of Forth. Bo’ness Station is also home to the Museum of Scottish…

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Tall chimneys

Back in the days when ‘dark satanic mills’ covered the land tall chimneys were everywhere, even the locomotives had them. Furness Railway No.20, in this guise, really does look mid-Victorian, she was built in 1863 by Sharp Stewart, the famous Manchester engine builders. Sharp Stewart, moved to Glasgow in 1888 eventually becoming one of the constituents of the North British Locomotive Co. It was…

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the on off in out shake it all about Scotsman

the on off in out shake it all about Scotsman

Here she is, the ‘nation’s favourite engine’ doing her stuff on the brand new Borders Railway, or, as some might say, the northern end of the  of the Waverley route. The gradient here is 1:70, there’s around 9 miles of it between Hardengreen Jct and Tynehead, which is where this shot was taken, and a final mile at 1:100 to the summit at Falahill box.

The A3s were no strangers to this route and…

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Steam, Diesel & Electric

Steam, Diesel & Electric

A little while ago I was given a pile of back issues of Railway Magazine, from the 1930s and 40s, one of which just happens to be the February 1936 edition. Eighty years ago this month, Railway Magazine readers were enjoying articles on; 100 years of German Railways, The Early Days on the London & Greenwich Railway, North American Railway Speeds in 1934, Early Locomotives in Canada, and Part 1…

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Bo'ness passing

Bo’ness passing

It’s Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway’s gala this weekend and it’s also the last outing, before her ticket expires, of Ex-LNER Class D49 4-4-0 No.246 Morayshire, which is why I chose the ‘passing’ shot. The pilot engine BR Std Class 4MTT 2-6-4 No.80105 is already in the overhaul queue.  The workshops at Bo’ness must be getting pretty full now, as along with No. 80105 and No.246 Morayshire, there are…

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No smoke without fire.

No smoke without fire.

Blue skies and thick black clag, which to some railway enthusiasts is just as it should be. However, there’s another school which thinks making black smoke is bad form, gets railway preservation a bad name, and upsets the neighbours and the green lobby. Then there are the almost inevitable arguments about, how the fireman should have opened the dampers, or firehole door etc., etc.

Debates about…