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Caley to the Coast or Rothesay by Wemyss Bay by AJC Clark w/ dust jacket
Caley to the Coast or Rothesay by Wemyss Bay by AJC Clark
Oakwood Library of Railway History
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
320 pages
Copyright 2001
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by Cyril Bleasdale 4
Acknowledgements 5
Chapter OneFrom Glasgow to Wemyss Bay 7
Chapter TwoFrom Wemyss to Bute 37
Chapter ThreeGeography, Geology and History 51
Chapter FourThe Development of Land Transport 64
Chapter Five Personalities 71
Chapter SixBuilding the Line and Constructing the First Wemyss
Bay Station 79
Chapter SevenMaintenance of the Line - Engineers' Reports 125
Chapter EightManaging the Railway 131
Chapter Nine Boats on the Clyde and the Steamer Traffic 147
Chapter Ten Clyde River Traffic 177
Chapter ElevenThe Kirk Upset and the Perils of Travel 183
Chapter TwelveCaledonian Railway Rolling Stock 192
Chapter Thirteen Running the Railway 205
Chapter Fourteen The Second Wemyss Bay Station and Other Works 217
Chapter FifteenFrom Caley Times to British Rail 255
Chapter SixteenRestoring Wemyss Bay Station 267
Driving Forward by Malcolm Reed 288
Appendix OneChronology 289
Appendix TwoNoteworthy Personalities on the Local Scene 294
Appendix ThreeFares Compared 298
Appendix FourLand Purchase and Other Agreements 300
Appendix FiveThe Specification for the 1903 Wemyss Bay Station 302
Appendix SixMarshalling of Trains for use on the Wemyss Bay and Gourock Routes 309
Appendix Seven A Selection of Engines known to have run on the Greenock and Wemyss Bay Lines 310
Appendix EightA Selection of Paddle Steamers known to have visited Wemyss Bay and some other vessels 314
Selected References 317
Index 319
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION:
Born in Troon some miles south of Wemyss Bay, Archie Clark moved north when his father became headmaster of Peterhead Academy. He now lives in Edinburgh. His father, Dr J.N.C. Clark, a Classics scholar, was latterly president of the SSTA, one of the largest teaching unions in Scotland. He was a skilled painter but never managed to complete his Latin textbook. Archie's grandfather, Dr A.C. Clark, wrote a Clinical Manual of Mental Diseases, an innovative work on the treatment of mental health. Archie chose a different profession and became an Architect. At the age of seven, he received acclaim for his first public work when he drew a thick purple line down the newly applied wallpaper of the staircase in Peterhead Palace Hotel where his family were billeted awaiting the renovation of the schoolhouse.
Holidays were spent in Edinburgh travelling in the 'private' compartment on the top deck of the trams ('to the terminus, please'), pushing buttons in the Chambers Street Museum to see how machinery worked, taking car numbers and getting smoked out by steam locomotives as they glided along the tracks into Waverley Station.
Peterhead had little to offer the railway enthusiast but this was compensated for by a large clockwork railway, subsequently replaced by an even larger Hornby-Dublo set and a growing collection of railway titles. His cherished secondhand BSA racing bike took him all over Peterhead sketching cosy clusters of buildings in the Roanheads, fishing boats and the big cranes that were used to construct the wide breakwaters enclosing the bay.
When the organist was away, his musical skills were tried out on the choir in St Peter's Church in Peterhead. When the power failed, the organ was pumped by the smallest choirboy who faced an unhappy challenge as Archie pulled out more stops than could be supplied with air. The sonic effects were quite remarkable.
He graduated from Edinburgh University and Art College and joined RMJMP, a large local practice, at the same time developing an interest in local affairs - writing articles on planning and transport matters for the local paper in a (sometimes successful) attempt to stem the tide of undesirable development. He continues this interest as Planning Convenor on the local Community Council. His professional life placed him in teams designing factories, offices, university buildings, shopping centres and hospitals.
The Directors of his then current practice, Reiach and Hall, realising his interest in small trains, gave him a full-sized station to work on as Resident Architect - at Wemyss Bay. For a short time, anyone using the site ansaphone would have been greeted by the message that 'The Resident Architect is away trainspotting. which was nearly true. He is currently involved in the health and safety aspects of building construction.
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