#beattock
Previous life - in a layby in Beattock, Scotland 4.9.1985

I moved to a village about 25 kilometres from here five years later.

#Beattock #Scotland #LorryDriving #GreenwoodAirvac
August 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Double headed freight on the WCML near Beattock. 3.2.1987

#Beattock #1980s

A few years later I moved to a few miles from here, to Leadhills, high up in the hills.
December 21, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of cottages and houses in Camphill, #Beattock in #Dumfries and #Galloway. The Southern Upland Walking Way and Annandale Way run close to the village tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2017/07/old-...
Old Photograph Camphill Beattock Scotland
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April 26, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Parked up in a lay-by near Beattock in Scotland, 4.9.1985

#Beattock #Scotland

A job that gave me the opportunity to travel all over GB taking railway photos!

Five years later I moved to a village a few kilometres from here, and lived there for five years.
December 31, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of station in Beattock, Dumfries and Galloway. It features in novel The Thirty Nine Steps when Richard Hannay walks to railway station from Moffat tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2017/04/old-...
Old Photograph Railway Station Beattock Scotland
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March 17, 2026 at 8:11 PM
But would you want to sleep next to the graveyard? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
18th Century church near Beattock could become three-bedroom home
The church near Beattock in southern Scotland is next to a graveyard and dates back to the late 1790s.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of Kirkpatrick Juxta Church and cemetery by Beattock, Dumfries and Galloway. Church of 1798 by John McCracken, remodelled by James Barbour, 1875 tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2019/07/old-...
Old Photograph Kirkpatrick Juxta Church Beattock Scotland
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February 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Well, this is exciting. We were walking around Beattock hillfort, and discussing how there's not much evidence of vitrifaction in these forts, when I noticed some poking out. Very happy colleagues 😁
May 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Have a wee visit to a tour #Scotland travel video Blog of old #Scottish #ancestry #history #genealogy #photography of Beattock, a village in Dumfries and Galloway, approximately 1⁄2 mile south west of Moffat and 19 miles north of Dumfries tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2023/07/old-...
Old Photographs Beattock Dumfries And Galloway Scotland
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September 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of cottages in Craigielands, Beattock in Dumfries and Galloway. The Southern Upland Walking Way and the Annandale Way run close to the village tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2016/06/old-...
Old Photograph Craigielands Beattock Scotland
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August 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Found this article in an ancient Railway Modeller that I believe is located in @dov.bsky.social and @ulycia.bsky.social's neck of the woods?
July 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Have a wee visit to a tour #Scotland travel video Blog of old
#Scottish #ancestry #history #genealogy #photography of Beattock village in Dumfries and Galloway, approximately 1⁄2 mile south west of Moffat and 19 miles north of Dumfries tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2023/04/old-...
Old Photographs Beattock Dumfries And Galloway Scotland
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May 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of a steam train at Beattock Bank near Beattock Summit, a high point of West Coast Main Line in Dumfries and Galloway. 52 miles south of Glasgow tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2017/04/old-...
Old Photograph Steam Train Beattock Bank Scotland
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August 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Here’s a before and after view of the A74(M) near Greenhillstairs. The original dual carriageway was completed in 1966 and the motorway upgrade was completed in 1999.

Who's a fan of the A74(M) ?

#archives #glasgow #beattock #carlisle #motorway #scotland
June 7, 2025 at 7:38 AM
PPS: a small selection of RB Cunninghame Graham’s books – including THIRTEEN STORIES, from which “A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat” are extracted – are available free from @gutenberg.org
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Books by Cunninghame Graham, R. B. (Robert Bontine)
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May 24, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Summer's Joy : A Spotted Flycatcher at Beattock & Redstart at Borgue.
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June 16, 2026 at 12:47 AM
February 6, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Pulling up Beattock it's a steady climb
The gradient's against her, but she's on time.

The pentameter of that poem matches the gap in the rail joints. Thus the dum dum dumdumdum rhythm
December 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is the night mail crossing the Border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,

Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner, the girl next door.

Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb:
The gradient’s against her, but she’s on time.
January 29, 2026 at 10:36 AM
You’ve made it to the end! Have a FREE book! 3 short stories by Cunninghame Graham: “A Hegira”, “The Goldfish”, & “Beattock for Moffat”. Set in 🇲🇽 Mexico, 🇲🇦 Morocco, & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland, they are about journeys & frontiers, & about tenacity, loss, & death.
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Three Stories
Introduction by Jenni Calder Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2015 Text courtesy of the Kennedy & Boyd Cunninghame Graham Collection Published in: PDF Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852...
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May 24, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Gas Networks Ireland has announced plans to spend €200m to decarbonise its two compressor stations in Scotland - at Beattock and Brighouse Bay - a development which it says will decrease its greenhouse gas emissions by 42%
€200m to decarbonise Ireland-Scotland gas interconnector
Gas Networks Ireland has announced plans to spend €200m to decarbonise its two compressor stations in Scotland - a development which it says will decrease its greenhouse gas emissions by 42%.
www.rte.ie
March 12, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Planning permission has been granted to convert the late 18th century Kirkpatrick-Juxta church in Dumfries & Galloway into a private residence.

The surrounding graveyard remains in the care of the local authority and will stay open to visitors 👇

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
18th Century church near Beattock to become three-bedroom home
The church near Beattock in the south of Scotland dates back to the late 1790s.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 18, 2026 at 11:34 AM
This is the caravan crossing the Border,
Bringing the cheque and the postal order,

Letters for the rich, letters for the poor,
The shop at the corner, the girl next door.

Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb:
The gradient's against her, but she's on time.
Oh shit the GOP is so sweaty and panicked they’re bringing back the migrant caravan!. 😭😭
August 14, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Imagine we could actually spend that money on say a station at Beattock or restoring the Castle Douglas/ Newton Stewart lines or even connecting to the ferry at Cairnryan. Transformative for the south West of Scotland.
July 10, 2026 at 9:21 AM