The River Esk at Langholm, looking towards the Langholm Bridge – a road bridge originally built in 1778. A plaque tells me that Thomas Telford worked on this bridge as a journeyman (skilled worker). Dumfries is the administrative centre of Dumfries and Galloway, the council which encompasses the historic counties of Wigtownshire, the Stewartry of […]
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Figure 1: The destination – the view eastwards on the coast in the vicinity of Robertsfors, north of Umeå, where the Rickleån River empties into the Bothnian Bay on the Baltic Sea. This is typical of the very attractive coastal scenery in this part of northern Sweden. (Photograph; David Murray-Smith). I spent most of June
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First bus Glasgow Wright StreetDeck Electroliner with Glasgow Airport Express branding departing Buchanan Bus Station for the airport. Glasgow airport is Scotland’s second largest airport with just over eight million customers travelling through it in 2025, ranking it ninth by passenger usage in the United Kingdom. Glasgow airport is slightly unusual amongst British airports in
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The London Cable Car is now known as the “IFS Cloud”. Previously it operated as the “Emirates Air Line”. An email from a fellow member of the Scottish Association for Public Transport reminded me that it is very easy to think that day to day urban and sub-urban public transport is confined to bus, train,
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