The Association brought out a series of Profiles

 

Profile3 Signalling on the G & SWR

 

Profile 4 The Ayr and Cumnock Line

 

Profile 5 The Largs Branch 

 

We also have a small stock of Journal Back numbers:

 

Journal 20  - The Busby Branch Pt 2, G&SWR Poet, Manson 4-6-0 Proposed rebuilds, Headlamp codes, A trip to Ardrossan 1846, Recollections 1919-1947 Drawings of Manson 4-6-0 381 class, Portpatrick Railay wagon, engine shed and water tank, standard signalling components

 

Journal 21 - Cairn Valley railway, G&SWR Steamers in LMS Days, Snow 1940 part 1, Stilring steam reverser, wartime Galloway recollections part 1

Drawings of Manson 0-6-0 361 class, Moniave branch station, Stirling steam reverser, Standard signalling components part 3

 

Journal 22 - Smellies wee bogies, Poem awney McGraw, Snow 1940 part 2, Cairn Valley Railway with gradient and line diagram, Wartime Galloway part 2, Buddicom on Glasgow - Paisley line, recollection od Excusion on Girvan line.

Drawings - Smellie 4-4-0 119 class, Moniaive goods shed, snowploughs, GPK&AR goods wagon

 

Journal 24 - Holidays 1949, Haulage to Troon, Track diagram of Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Railway, Foreign locos on G&SWR lines, Running Powers, G&SWR Tank loocs, Annual Accounts.

Drawings - G&SWR 2-2-2 WT 159, GPK&AR 2nd clas 1839, Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Signal box 1889.

 

Journal 26 - Addison & Gardner locos Wigtownshire Railway, Block Instruments, Shilford - on Main line, A Railway Servant, Maryport and Carlisle No 18, Hurlford Letter book 1910 part 2. 

Draing - Thornhill station house, Locos Addion and Gardner, M & C R 0-6-0 no 18, GPK&AR first class coach 1839.

 

Journal 30 - Sorbie station recollections part 2, Stuart - GPK&AR part 2, Satcoats accident 1906, Lord Glenarthur train log, Ayr expresses 1930, Peter Drummond, Coach brakes

Drawings - 1st and 3rd clas 6 wheel coaches, Saltcoats track plan 1906

 

Journal 31 - 1840 Ayr timetable, early railway timekeeping, Drummond 4-4-0s in 1936, Irvine S & T works, Piers and harbour, Whitelegg 4-4-2T 1920, Sorbie station recollections part 3

 

Drawings - Kilmacolm signal box and station plan, Whitelegg 4-4-2T proposed.

 

Journal 32 - The apprentice pt 2, Additiona not on Irvine works, Wartime reminiscences, 0-6-0 367, working over the sou'wet, Craignair Aerial ropeway, Troon station, Ayr and Troon Harbours.

 

Journal 33 - Poem - The old South Western, Railays of Greenock, Drivers recoillections - Glasgow to Kilmarnock via Dalry, Stranraer and Girvan harburs, Mid Victorian mails.

Drawings of Grenock Princes Pier items

 

Journal 34 - G&SWR coaching stock, G&SWR 1851, Kilmarnock - Bank Jct drivers recollections, Sorbie station wartime recollections, Preservation of G&SWR No 9, Glasgow St Enoch signal box.

Drawing of Ballochmyle viaduct

 

 

Journal 35 - 40th Anniversary issue -  colour - Proposed Kintyre railway, Beith engine shed, Baltic tank, PP& handover, Firemans reminiscences 1940s, Prestwick station, mainline footplate memories.

Drawing - Beith engine shed

 

Journal 36 - colour - Greenock propoed amalgamation, Auchlin 7mm model layout, Railway bookstalls, P Drummond proposed 4-6-0, Manson Dining carriage No 1, Kilmarnock and Troon line services 1960/70s

Drawings - Drummond proposed 4-6-0, Manson dining carriage

 

Journal 37 - Freight on G&SWR 1910, Shunting at Stevenston 1880, Scottih Loco designers, Thornhill - Dumfries, G&SWR Motor ambulances 1917.

 

Journal 38 - G&SWR shipping in LMS days, early Ayrshire waggonways, Whitelegg's legacy, Found items Closeburn station, Government control of the railways 1914 - 1921, Typist at College Goods WW1, G&SWR Ayrshire lines.

 

Journal 39 - Main line memories, Great War Roll of Honour, Smellie 22 diary of duties, Princess Victoria sinking, Grenock Line 1869 - 1891, Perth - Ayr goods 1923, Paisley canal - Blackhall bridge.