Pencaitland Railway Walk Pt 4 - Glenkinchie Traditional Cache
Professor Xavier: This cache has been unavailabled for many years and the CO has promised to fix it for over 4 years now.
As they have not done so, and have considerable time and opportunity to do so, I am archiving it. Please note that as this cache has now been archived by a reviewer or HQ staff it will NOT be unarchived.
Regards
Ed
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Pencaitland Railway Walk Pt 4 - Glenkinchie
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A traditional cache located on the Pencaitland Railway Walk, near Glenkinchie Distillery
The Pencaitand Railway Walk follows the route formerly taken by the Gifford and Garvald Light Railway.
The line orginally opened in 1901 and used for both passenger and goods transport. The line ran from a fork at Monktonhall where it connected to the main East Coast Line.
Contrary to it's name the line never quite made it Garvald, only stretching as far as Gifford. There were stations at Ormiston (Macmerry on a seperate branch line), Pencaitland, Salton, Humbie and Gifford.
The primary goods transported on the line were agricultural produce, coal and the whiskey produced at Glenkinchie Distillery.
Glenkinchie Distillery has been operating (legally) since 1837 when it was operated by George Rate & Sons. It was closed in 1853 then reopened by a consortium of Edinburgh merchants who created the Glenkinchie Distillery Co. Ltd. In 1914 it became part of Scottish Malt Distillers and subsequently Diageo.
I had not intended on placing a cache this far up the Railway Walk as Jack Aubrey & Firth of Forth had one up here but i noticed it had recently been archived.
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