McRailrover

We were delighted to welcome Stuart Warr from South Wales to present McRailrover on 17^th October. Stuart has had many opportunities to travel to the furthest reaches of Scotland over the years and gave us a wonderful tour of the country from Carlisle to Ayr and Kilmarnock in the south and west, right across to Edinburgh and up to Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness and the Far North, Glasgow, Fort William, Kyle of Lochalsh. Images ranged from the 1970s right up to the present so diesel classes 20, 26, 27, 37, 40, 47, 55, and electric classes 86, 87, 90, 92, 73s on the Caley sleeper, Glasgow ‘blue’ EMUs, then cl. 314, 320, 334, and the modern cl.380, 385, the trusty Scottish DMUs cl.126, and newer cl. 156, 158, 170. Some of the exploits involved changing trains at stations where this wasn’t a common activity, after the rail bridge in Inverness was swept away in flood water with some units trapped north of the break. Rail tours with steam haulage also featured, as did the heritage railways at Bo’ness and Strathspey. This really was an evening of something for everyone.