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By Colin J. Howat

within the Nineteen Sixties, there have been nonetheless steam locomotives established at Ayr depot and a wealth of department strains crossed the Ayrshire nation-state. even if there has been a wave of closures following the Beeching file, via the Eighties it used to be determined that what railways have been left have been worthy retaining and a few stations equivalent to Kilmaurs and New Cumnock have been re-opened. This booklet takes a glance at railway traction in Ayrshire, together with at Kilmarnock, Largs, Greenburn, Irvine, Hunterston and Ardrossan Harbour. Colin J. Howat, who has lived in Ayrshire all his existence and spent a long time operating within the rail undefined, makes use of his amazing choice of color and black and white pictures to record the final 40 years of diesel and electrical traction in Ayrshire, together with either passenger and freight trains.

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