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“Tullygarth”
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Tullygarth is north of Stirling, on a line which connects central Scotland to areas within the Highlands. The line was built to serve the Highland area and is Caledonian in origin. Initially people and livestock were the principal traffic. We no longer take live animals by rail but timber, paper products, metals and other freight has taken their place. This classic Scottish Highland station (an Island platform accessed from underpass) is important as it serves a branch down to a large loch side town as well as the main route to the north. Traffic is surprisingly busy as there is a 2 hourly service to and from Glasgow, with additional trains serving the branch, generally by multiple unit. There is also a daily sleeper service with a portion of the Euston Sleeper passing through on this short route to the north. Other passenger stock is generally loco hauled in the 1980s era, which slowly gives way to mainly DMUs by the 1990s
The station is bounded by a freight yard, which is used for timber loading via road access from the rear gateway, the yard is also a useful staging post for the local railway engineers who often park ballast and rail wagons or track machines here. Signalling has not moved on as much as other northern Scottish lines and is not under RETB control yet. Conventional semaphore signals controlled from the Caley box abound. The only modernization was the last time the rodding to the furthest point gave trouble an electric point motor was fitted. At the Southern end of the station the land drops into a gorge which carries the line over Tully Water on a high metal girder bridge. In the foreground Tully Toll Garage continues on its singular mission to keep every old Land Rover in Scotland on the road.
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Post time: Feb-08-2017