Kilts and railway preservation - a whimsy.

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Queen Victoria would not allow the 40-mile long Royal Deeside Railway to get quite as far as Balmoral Castle but, nevertheless, for 100 years it provided the penultimate transport leg for royal holidays on Deeside. In recent years, a section next to Crathes Castle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crathes_Castle
has been re-opened with a wee tank engine for family fun days out. A couple of years ago - and I don't know the story behind this - some dancers demonstrated on the platform "Royal Deeside Railway", a recently devised country dance. (The caption says that they are "Canadian Highland Dancers" but, since they're not Highland dancers, they may not be Canadian either!) Country dances have proliferated away from tradition in recent years and, like new tartans, can even be generated by computer. This one looks particularly challenging. Anyway, plenty of kilts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY__U9Btfd8
By the way, the second dance is "Shiftin' Bobbins", composed in the north of England to mimic the actions of the jute mill. Here it is being danced here, there and everywhere
http://www.scottish-country-dancing-...n-bobbins.html

Alan