Heritage Railway

Saving Bonnie Dundee

eference has been made to Ian Fraser’s rescue of and removal to his Arbroath home. In April 1959 a planning inquiry, referred to as the ‘Arbroath Affair’ spent two days determining whether the application to erect an engine shed and lay a short 2ft gauge railway within the residential was moved into its new home, alongside Marshall steam tractor ‘Jingling Geordie’.

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