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Museum
Represents a museum
WC
Yes
EventsForChildren
No
Place
The town or city
Leadhills
HearingLoop
No
IsIncludedThisYear
No
DisabledAccess
No
Activities
<p>Areas of the site which are not usually accessible to the?public (workshops, loco shed and storage sheds with items awaiting restoration) will be open.</p>
<p>Normal railway services will be run. There is a charge for tickets.</p>
OpeningTime1
10:45-17:00
OpeningDate1
30/9/2017
IsNewThisYear
No
ID
Google Panorama ID
10689
Refreshments
Yes
Street
The street address
Station Road
Postcode
ML12 6XP
Parking
Yes
DisabledWC
No
LimitedAccess
No
NotAccessible
No
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Leadhills & Wanlockhead Railway
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
southlanarkshire
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
3460
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Museum
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
current,55.41391,-3.762087;
Description
An account of the resource
<p>Run entirely by volunteers in the historic village of Leadhills, the railway incorporates period diesel locomotives and 0.75 mile of narrow gauge track. Also a signalbox formed from material recovered from the branch line viaduct.</p>
<p>Leadhills has the memorial to William Symington (early pioneer of steam navigation), a curfew bell which regulated the miners' lives, and a Miners Library with a collection of books going back to the 1741 formation of the Library. Leadhills was the birthplace of the poet Allan Ramsay.</p>
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1990 (on historic trackbed 1901)