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Linlithgow Palace.Tel 01506 842896. The magnificent roofless
remains of Linlithgow Palace are set in a park beside a loch.
All of the Stewart kings lived at the Palace. Numerous renovations
to the palace’s grand facades and chambers were carried
out as each sought to create the ideal modern palace. The Palace
is the birthplace of Mary, Queen of Scots. It is now under the
care of Historic Scotland. Location: In the centre of Linlithgow.
The Bo'ness & Kinneil
Railway, Bo'ness Station, Union Street, Bo'ness, West Lothian
EH51 9AQ. Tel: 01506 822298 The Scottish Railway Preservation
Society is dedicated to the advancement of Scottish railway heritage.
It has the largest collection of railway locomotives, carriages,
wagons, equipment and artefacts outside the National Railway
Museum. Travel on the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway along the
south shore of the Firth of Forth, or board a day excursion organised
by SRPS Railtours over Britain's most scenic railways. www.srps.org.uk.
About 3 miles north of Linlithgow.
Birkhill Fireclay Mine, Tel. 01506 822298. Tour guides will meet
your train at Birkhill Station (the Mine is open on every day
when trains run), and will lead you down into the ancient woodland
of the beautiful Avon Gorge, home to much wildlife including
deer and otters, and then on into the Mine caverns. Experienced
guides will show you the underground workings, the 300 million
year old fossils and help explain how the fireclay was mined,
what it was used for, and its important role in the industrial
revolution. About 2 miles west of Linlithgow.
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