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scottish railway journeys far north line kyle line west highland line stranraer line Carlisle line borders railway John O’Groats Thurso Wick (Seasonal services) far north line • Whisky distilleries • Dunrobin Castle & Gardens • Strathpeffer (5m from • Timespan Museum & Dingwall) Arts Centre (Helmsdale) • Attadale Gardens • Forsinard RSPB Reserve • The Isle of Skye & Flow Country • Eilean Donan (8m from Kyle of Lochalsh) Kyle of Lochalsh kyle aberdeen to line Elgin inverness line Mallaig Inverness Highland • Whisky distilleries Aberdeen • Beaches main line • Keith & Dufftown Aviemore Heritage Railway • Scone Palace & The Stone of Destiny • Loch Tummel • Aviemore, Cairngorms & The Strathspey Steam Railway Pitlochry Dundee Glasgow/Edinburgh Fort west to aberdeen line William highland • Forth & Tay Bridges Perth • Aberdour Castle line • St. Andrews (5m) • Dundee V&A Museum • Dumbarton Castle • Dunnottar Castle • Loch Lomond • Royal Deeside • Mull, Iona & Skye Gleneagles • Rannoch Moor • Ben Nevis Dunblane Kirkcaldy Oban • Glenfinnan Viaduct & Monument Balloch (Loch Lomond) Milngavie Stirling Alloa Bo’ness & Kinnell Glasgow Queen St Railway Edinburgh Gateway/Airport Glasgow Edinburgh North Berwick Jura Gourock Central Paisley Wemyss Bay Largs Islay Gigha inverclyde Ardrossan carlisle Berwick & clyde coast Upon-Tweed Galashiels Campbeltown line • Beaches Kilmarnock • Bute & Mount Stuart • Dumfries House borders (Wemyss Bay) (Auchinleck) Tweedbank • Arran & • Dumfries & Burns railway Brodick Castle House and statue • Gretna Green • Rosslyn Chapel (6m from Eskbank) • National Mining Museum Ayr • Great Tapestry of Scotland (2020) • Abbotsford House • Melrose Abbey stranraer Carlisle to Belfast line Stranraer • Ayr & Robert Burns Birthplace Museum • Culzean Castle • Girvan & boat trips to Ailsa Craig • Gardens - 5 are within easy reach of Stranraer.

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Memorial to Sir Edward B. Bailey, Kt., M.C., F.R.S
MEMORIAL TO SIR EDWARD B. BAILEY, KT., M.C., F.R.S. (1881-1965) A. G. MACC/RUGOK 45 rhurbnrn Road, Edinburgh, Scotland Sir Edward Bailey, a geologist of the highest inter- national repute in the spheres of tectonics and ig- neous action, died in London on March 19, 1965, at the age of 83. He had been, in his time, held and petrographic worker and District Geologist on the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Professor of Geology in Glasgow University, and Director of the Geological Survey and Museum. Bailey's international eminence is attested by his Presidency of the International Pre-Cambrian As- sociation (1934-1937); by his election to foreign membership of the national scientific academies of Norway, India, the United States of America, Bel- gium, and Switzerland; by Honorary Fellowship of the Geological Societies of Amer- ica and of France; and by an honorary doctorate conferred by Harvard University (1936). At home he was awarded honorary doc torates by the Universities of Birming- ham (1939), Glasgow (1946). Belfast (1946), Cambridge (1952), and Edinburgh (1964). Edward Battersby Bailey, son of a medical practitioner, was born in 1881 in Marden, Kent. From Kendal Grammar School, in Westmorland, he won an open scholarship to Clare College, Cambridge, in 1899. He graduated in 1902 with first- class honors (in both physics and geology) in Part II of the Natural Sciences Tripos, and won the Harkncss scholarship. Many years later he was elected an Honorary Fellow of Clare College (1944). Bailey joined the Geological Survey in 1902 and worked in Scotland as a Geologist until 1915.
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