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ZombieSazza
16-03-2010, 05:49 PM
GNSR Burgehead Line
Sorry if anything is over/under exposed, first time I've used manual on my camera (I normally use shutter/aperture priority but I've decided to ditch the learner wheels).

This is somewhere I need to go out for the day and explore fully. TheSurveyor and I drove past here getting back to Elgin and I glanced over the bridge and noticed the old tracks next to Roseisle Distillery and never noticed them before...

Done a quick visit and have checked it out on Googlemaps and these tracks go all the way to Burhead I think so I need to get myself down all the tracks and see what is hidden in the woods, I think it's a good 2-3 miles of track so it should be a good walk. :)


GNSR bridge
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Roseisle Distillery to the left
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Noticed on this pole it says "Rowell Aberdeen, No34 1862"? I think it says 1862.

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ZombieSazza
24-03-2010, 05:25 PM
Being a spaz I forgot to copy all of the files I was going to add into this report so I only have a handful on my memory pen (no nets at home) so I will add the rest tomorrow.

Went out yesterday and walked along the old Alves to Burghead line which is about 3-4 miles in length. 3-4 miles to me is an easy walk which I can do in less than an hour but it took me a good 3 hours as I fell over a lot of things, got stuck on a barbed wire fence and ended up upside down, fell into knee high sheep shit which sucked.. I had to clean most of it off in a stream and stank to high heavens and had Wurzel laughing in my ear. It got all over my left arm, up my thighs, in my hair.. Everywhere. I mistook shit for mud and paid dearly. I also had to jump through a lot of gorse and bushes on the tracks for most of the walk. I also had to avoid a lot of sheep and got chased once again by sheep... I don't just fail, I fail so bad that the words 'epic fail' don't even cover it but it was well worth it.. Well, except the sheep shit. Thank god I was wearing Cammo... You could smell it though (And I stank out Wurzel's lorry, I'm trying to be sorry but I can't and that's what you get for laughing :P ). There are no pictures of me covered in sheep shit but trust me when I say I was covered and having a bad day. I fell in pretty deep but saved my Tank (My Canon is olde).

Anyway...


STOP! Hammer time?
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The Burghead junction and a small shed in the distance.
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Couldn't get in the shed as it's padlocked but managed to get these from the window.
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Just at the start from Alves (pronounces Avis).. These tracks are deemed 'live' byt Scotrail.. You are going to have a seriously bad day if you end up here on a train as there's a shit load of gorse (and I have shredded legs to prove that one).
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The old electric lines for the track? Not sure.
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The first bridge of many.
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And the view from the bridge, pikey-ville to the right and there's a lot of strewn rubbish on the tracks :(
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Also found this on the side of the tracks and another bridge.
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I will post the rest tomorrow :)

ZombieSazza
26-03-2010, 02:41 PM
Lol, it's too much hard work for the Pikey's :P

TS and Nugget, when I am done kicking in Wurzel (I have many bruises on my legs now, thanks Wurzel) I am getting you two next ;)


Carrying on from where I left.

And another bridge...
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At the back of Roseisle Distillery
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I couldn't help but think 'no shit' when I saw this
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Just inside the distillery after the gates. Seriously over-grown here
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Back to the bridge I was at last week
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And some things I missed last week
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The distillery to the left (and just behind this is a big pile of sheep shit I mistook for mud)
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And now into the woods..
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Thank god, a clear track...
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At this point I was really smelly and tired and very, very happy to see Burghead through the trees
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And here we are at the very end.
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