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This year marks\u00a0 the 150th anniversary of the Highland Main Line<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Main Line was built as a transportation\u00a0 link to the South for lairds and landowners living in northern Scotland<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A 1952 British Rail Ivatt number 46512 is\u00a0 prepared in the engine shed at Strathspey Steam Railway<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The first part of the line opened in June 1,\u00a0 1863, from the south as far as Pitlochry. On September 9, 1863, trains were able\u00a0 to link Perth and Inverness<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The line – built for a total cost of\u00a0 just \u00a3919,204\u00a0 – has since weathered war, the rise of road travel, and the\u00a0 nationalisation of the railways, and now the Strathspey Railway operates part of\u00a0 the original route over Dava Moor.<\/p>\n A series of celebratory events have\u00a0 been taking place over the course of the year to mark the anniversary – with the\u00a0 latest held at Strathspey Steam Railway in Aviemore,Scotland.<\/p>\n Families were invited to step back in\u00a0 time aboard a 1952 British Rail Ivatt locomotive number 46512, which run along\u00a0 part of the original track and watch as engineers prepared a steam engine in one\u00a0 of the last remaining former Highland Railway Company sheds.<\/p>\n Originally, it was local landowners\u00a0 who promoted the construction of a railway from Perth to Inverness, via\u00a0 Aviemore, Grantown and Forres.<\/p>\n Fireman Ken Plant looks from the plate of\u00a0 the 1952 British Rail Ivatt number 46512<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Guard Brian Burgess waves off the 1952\u00a0 British Rail Ivatt number 46512. The line – built for a total cost of just\u00a0 \u00a3919,204 – has since weathered war, the rise of road travel, and the\u00a0 nationalisation of the railways<\/p>\n<\/div>\n A series of celebratory events have been\u00a0 taking place over the course of the year to mark the anniversary – with the\u00a0 latest held at Strathspey Steam Railway in Aviemore,\u00a0 Scotland<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Families were invited to step back in time\u00a0 aboard a 1952 British Rail Ivatt locomotive number 46512, which run along part\u00a0 of the original track and watch as engineers prepared a steam engine in one of\u00a0 the last remaining former Highland Railway Company\u00a0 sheds<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Refusing to listening to worried\u00a0 naysayers, who were convinced that a railway could not be made across the high\u00a0 and desolate Druimuachdar Pass, Joseph Mitchell persisted.<\/p>\n Local communities were already seeing\u00a0 the advantages that railways could bring. In 1855 a line of 15 miles had been\u00a0 made as the Inverness & Nairn Railway, and soon links eastward to Forres,\u00a0 Elgin and Keith gave access to Aberdeen.<\/p>\n Then, on 22 July 1861 an Act of\u00a0 Parliament for the Inverness & Perth Junction Railway was obtained and on 17\u00a0 October that year the first sod was ceremoniously cut at Forres.<\/p>\n The brain child of Joseph Mitchell of\u00a0 Inverness, the link was built to provide direct access through the Grampian\u00a0 Mountains from the Highlands to the rest of Britain for Scotland’s rich lairds\u00a0 and landowners<\/p>\n<\/div>\n At the time, the notion of a train line\u00a0 running through the rough and desolate Scottish Highlands was dismissed as mere\u00a0 fancy – a dangerous pipe dream. But 150 years it is still going\u00a0 strong<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Queen Victoria was one of the first people\u00a0 from England to use the Inverness and Perth Line. On 15 September 1863 she\u00a0 travelled from Perth to Blair Atholl and back again, breaking her journey to\u00a0 Balmoral from Windsor to visit her fatally ill\u00a0 husband<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Within just two years and at a total\u00a0 cost of a mere \u00a3919,204, the 104 mile long line was completed.<\/p>\n The Inverness & Perth Junction\u00a0 Railway became part of the\u00a0 Highland Railway in 1865, which was in existence for almost 60\u00a0 years.<\/p>\n Then in 1923 it was absorbed into the\u00a0 London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS), and in 1948 British Railways took\u00a0 over at nationalisation.<\/p>\n Queen Victoria was one of the first\u00a0 people from England to use the Inverness and Perth Line, to visit her fatally\u00a0 ill husband.<\/p>\n On 15 September 1863 she travelled\u00a0 from Perth to Blair Atholl and back again, breaking her journey to Balmoral from\u00a0 Windsor.<\/p>\n Rebecca Cameron works in the buffet car of\u00a0 the restored steam engine<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The engine is prepared is prepared in the\u00a0 engine shed at Strathspey Steam Railway – one of just two left in existence<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924\u0940\u092f \u0930\u0947\u0932 \u0915\u093e \u0938\u094d\u091f\u0940\u092e\u00a0 \u0907\u0902\u091c\u0928\u094b\u0902\u00a0 \u0915\u0947 \u092f\u0941\u0917 \u0938\u0947 \u092c\u0939\u0941\u0924 \u092a\u0941\u0930\u093e\u0928\u093e \u0938\u093e\u0925 \u0939\u0940…. more ![\"steam](\"https:\/\/patriotsforumindia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/steam-engine-fairy-queen.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nA journey which has lasted 150 years: Fascinating pictures\u00a0 celebrating landmark anniversary of the Highland Main Line relive bygone era of\u00a0 the wonder of steam trains<\/h1>\n
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