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Articles about the dummy railway
Anecdotes about old paisley railways.
Legend of the Dummy Railway (humour)
Article in Paisley Express
Paisley Mansions website
Wikipedia
These Wikipedia pages were created at the same time as this website and are more formal versions of the ones on this site but have comprehensive references to the sources of information.
Paisley and Barrhead District Railway
A lot of the information on this site was gleaned
from Ewan Crawford's excellent and comprehensive Railscot website, see below
http://www.railscot.co.uk/railways.htm (companies)
Many of the black and white photographs were taken by the famous railway photographer GH Robin. They are included on the website by courtesy of the Mitchell Library (Culture and Sport Glasgow on behalf of Glasgow City Council) . The negatives and copyright for these photographs are held by the Mitchell Library - Thanks to Marion Beaton , Archives and Special Collections Co-ordinator Mitchell Library for the kind permission to display the photographs of GH Robin.The Mitchell Library can be found here
The marvellous photographs of GH Robin can be seen here
Thanks to his son John Robin for his kind words and permission to use his own photographs.
Gordon Stansfield's Ayrshire & Renfrewshire's Lost Railways and other books can be found here
Some of the history and photographs were taken from David Rowand's brilliant Paisley history books. Find them here
Dates from CJ Gammell "scottish branch lines" (1999) here
Graham Morgan's excellent railway and other photographs can be found here
Photographs by Colin Miller on Railscot here . Thanks to Colin for those and his fascinating memories.
Glagow & South Western Railway Association
Thanks to Mr David Roberts, Paisley Museum for his help. Paisley Museum website is here
Thanks to Vic at Paisley.org forum for his information and the use of his photographs. His photos are here.
The Norris Forrest photographs are displayed by kind permission of Keith Fenwick, chairman of the Great North of Scotland Railway Association which owns the copyright and can be foundhere. Permission must be sought to use these photographs in any context.
The Norris Forrest photographs were purchased from Transport Treasury which has an archive of 300,000 transport related negatives !! Find it here
Partick Central / Kelvin Hall photos
https://ldrailway2.livejournal.com/370.html
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hollowhorn/41752110
https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSE01364
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobthelomond/232768939
https://www.railscot.co.uk/locations/P/Partick_Central/slideshow.html
Links to other old, non railway pictures of
Paisley.
Old Paisley photographs
Slideshows of old Paisley pictures
Same photos on photobucket - click on pause then step through pictures by clicking on them.
Paisley.org old Paisley pictures
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cessna152towser/sets/72157603503361939/