Talk:Gorton railway station (Scotland)

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Category: Railway stations closed in 1964[edit]

I don't understand this categorisation. Gorton was very much alive in 1964, manned, and the I think the school on the platform was still in operation: certainly the carriage that formed the school was there well after then. Given that the "station" is still there, has it closed at all? Exbrum (talk) 10:23, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Brackish" water and how supplies were delivered.[edit]

The article says that the local water was "too brackish". "Brackish" water is salt water, but not as salty as sea water. It seems unlikely to me that the water on Rannoch Moor would be salty. It would contain dissolved peat and be brownish in colour, but surely not salty. I do not have access to the citation, McGregor (2014). What exactly does he say?

As for the water being delivered in the tender of the engine, this may have been true historically but I can remember its being delivered in milk churns from Fort William. Exbrum (talk) 21:02, 24 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I wondered about 'brackish' however peaty water does have qualities that might well justify that term, anyhow on Wikipedia you can't change stated facts such as the water from the tender statement. It would be nice to 'sneak' in the milk churn statement. I used to add people's personal spoken contributions but no doubt Wiki has a policy against it. Rosser Gruffydd 14:57, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Platelayers' hut/platemen's bothy[edit]

The hut mentioned in citation McGregor, John (2014) had been removed by 1996; there was however still a rather rudimentary bothy on the east side of the track, at the Rannoch end of the platform, as shown in the photograph now in the article. Exbrum (talk) 19:37, 25 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]