Mystery Photos

For my 4th Ian Allan photo book - Southern Scotland - I would like to use these two photos taken by an old friend of my late father - Alan Maund of Worcester. Like my father, this friend passed on some years ago and I have been given use of this entire photo archive by his wife. Whilst some of the photographs are labelled and on others I can work out where they are, on these two I am completly stuck. I have spent hours and hours researching them, including following just about every possible line I can think it might be in Scotland on Google Earth - but with no luck!!

If you know the answer please send me a message via the 'contact us' section on the left of this page, it will be much appreciated.

I think the photos date from 1960ish and that the loco is J37 64613 which was a St. Margarets engine.

Initially I thought it was 64618 from Thornton Junction but now think this is wrong.

Most of the wagons seem to be empty coal wagons.

There appears to have been some double track looking at the level crossing and the bridge.

None of the houses have TV aerials, so this place could be shielded from the Central Valley.

The line does have telegraph poles, so presumably isn't an NCB or similar line.

Those hills look very distinctive and surely those houses must still exist.

There appears to be a factory chimney or similar on the left of the panorama.

If you would like to know the answer to where the above two pictures are click here.

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Any offers on the one below?

It was with another old aerial picture from the 1920s/30s which turned out to be Newton Stewart in Dumfries & Galloway, although this view doesn't look anything like rural southern Scotland to me!!!