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Howburn Digger
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Re: Best site visited 2014
Jan 01, 2015, 12:44
thesweetcheat wrote:
Sounds great, we've always sped past that part of Scotland on the train.


Beeching shut Galloway down fifty years ago. The train used to run between Dumfries and Stranraer. When the line was closed it effectively shut down Galloway. It was a vicious and cruel thing to do to the population.

But at one time the train DID run and tiny little bits of evidence do exist.

http://youtu.be/PU-yhABM4bg

Galloway was my back door while I grew up. I wandered its hills and woods, fished its lochs, rivers and burns and trod the weary miles across its moors and bogs. I still do. There are Spring and Summer wanders. I Gatehouse every October for a week. I fish for the back-end Salmon on a cheap beat on the Urr. I often take a wee wander round Moniaive at the weekend.
There is much more to Galloway than The Wicker Man areas.
Venture North to Kirriereoch and Merrick, visit on The Awful Hand and The Murder Hole, take the weird road to Garlieston and see the wondrous RA that is scattered across Eggerness and Penkiln (though you cannae see the Mulberry Harbour anymore).

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/232807

Just don't tell anyone about Galloway.
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