Dumfries Railway Heritage Centre offers nostalgic journey through history
dailyrecord.co.ukThe train now leaving from platform two will take you on a nostalgic journey through the region’s railway history. The newly-opened Dumfries Railway Heritage Centre is packed with memorabilia and educational sources.
The mini museum is a passion project for customer services worker Douglas Thomson, 60, from Annan. He is a well-known face at stations across south west of Scotland, and, in his free time, has transformed a disused room on platform two of Dumfries Station into a treasure trove of “railwayana”.
Display cases are packed with model railways, old railway parts, and union ties and badges. Mannequins wear uniforms from days gone past, and pictures and paintings of trains and stations line the walls.
Douglas joined the railway eight years ago, but his love affair with trains started more than five decades ago, when he built an elaborate model railway in the attic of the family home.
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