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CalMac receives historic Railway Crest.

Ian Fox, of CalMac, receiving the Callander & Oban Railway wooden crest from Lord Faulkner of Worcester, chairman of the Railway Heritage Committee.d

Ian Fox, of CalMac, receiving the Callander & Oban Railway wooden crest from Lord Faulkner of Worcester, chairman of the Railway Heritage Committee.

© 2007

On 9 November, Lord Faulkner of Worcester, chairman of the Railway Heritage Committee handed over the very large Callander & Oban Railway wooden crest to Ian Fox of CalMac.

The crest, which bears the date 1879 comes from the from the now-destroyed station building at Taynuilt and will be on permanent display in the CalMac terminal at Oban.

Taynuilt station was opened in 1880 and the original station building where the wooden crest was located was destroyed in a fire. The crest survived and has been preserved and restored.

Posted: 11 November 2007

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