24-657: The Scottish Crop Research Institute more commonly known as SCRI was a scientific institute located in Invergowrie near Dundee , Scotland . As of April 2011, when SCRI merged with the Macaulay Land Use Institute to form The James Hutton Institute . The institute was opened in 1951 in Invergowrie under the name Scottish Horticultural Research Institute (SHRI). In 1981, the SHRI merged with
48-774: Is now in another local authority area: Angus . The Mylnefield weather station was owned by the Met Office and is located in Invergowrie. The A85 road runs to the northeast of Invergowrie, while the A90 road runs to the north and northwest of the village. ScotRail manages Invergowrie railway station and provides a roughly hourly train service on the Glasgow–Dundee line . Some eastbound services continue to Arbroath. Frequent bus services connect Invergowrie to Dundee, Perth and Fife. Stagecoach Strathtay operate services to Perth, Dundee City Centre and Kirkcaldy . Dundee Airport
72-579: Is organised into four programmes: environment plant interactions, plant pathology , genetics and plant products and food quality. The institute carries out research funded by the Scottish Government 's "Programme 1" for profitable and sustainable agriculture and the co-ordinator of Programme 1 is staff member Professor Howard Davies. The institute is also undertaking research into how climate change in Scotland will affect crop production, as
96-634: Is situated east of the village, providing flights to London City and Belfast City airports. Gauldie, Enid, The Quarries and the Feus, Waterside Press 1981 Phillips, Adam, The Parish of Longforgan, 1895 Invergowrie rail crash The Invergowrie rail accident happened in Invergowrie , Scotland, on 22 October 1979. The accident killed five people and injured 51 others. The 08:44 passenger service from Glasgow Queen Street to Dundee , despite running late and experiencing technical difficulties, left Invergowrie station without incident. However,
120-805: The Scottish Plant Breeding Station (SPBS), which at the time was located near Edinburgh . Operations of the SPBS moved to the institute's site at Invergowrie and became the Scottish Crop Research Institute. In 1987 the institute accepted managerial responsibility for Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland, formerly the Scottish Agricultural Statistics Service. The commercial arm of the SCRI, Mylnefield Research Services,
144-512: The 20th century and the quarry filled with water. The former quarry can be seen as you leave Invergowrie station by train heading to Perth and now looks like a large lake. Until 1967, the main source of work in the village was a paper mill. The legend of the Gows o' Gowrie, stones supposed thrown by the devil around Invergowrie. The prophecy comes from a verse by Thomas the Rhymer (circa 1280). "When
168-511: The Starting signal which, as far as the signalman could see, was still at Danger. He went down onto the track and saw that the arm of the Starting signal was slightly raised; about 4°. Subsequent investigations showed that it was possible for the arm to have been raised roughly 8°. The guard of the Aberdeen train said that he had looked out of the window of the rear coach at Longforgan as
192-643: The Yowes o' Gowrie come to land, The Day o' Judgement's near at hand" Where the stones are, if they exist, has not been quite agreed. There is a "Deil's stone" at Greystanes, behind the Hilton hotel, surrounded by a Victorian fence. There is also a lump of rock which used to be called "the Paddock Stone" or the "Fairy Stone" in the wood situated on the Waterside road, near the quarry. It was said another stone
216-483: The brake on the leading bogie of locomotive 25083 was binding, although the driver carried on as Dundee was only a few miles away. As the train was running along Invergowrie Bay a traction motor caught fire and the train (with five carriages) was stopped. Approximately ten minutes later, the stationary train was run into at around 60 mph (100 km/h) by the seven-coach 09:35 express from Glasgow to Aberdeen hauled by locomotive 47208 . The impact threw
240-458: The cab of the Glasgow to Aberdeen train. The other two immediate fatalities were passengers Dr James Preston, a community health officer aged 65, and Mr Kazimierz Jedrelejczyk, a Polish marine engineer. The fifth death was that of passenger Mrs May Morrison who died in hospital as a result of injuries she had sustained in the crash. Footballer Dougie Wilkie was among the seriously injured and
264-603: The death of five people and 50 injuries. Invergowrie is located on the northwest bank of the Firth of Tay, with the Invergowrie Bay located just to the east and south of the village. The village is included in the Dundee 'settlement' (contiguous built-up area defined by populated postcodes) along with Monifieth on the east side of the city, which similarly to Invergowrie was previously administered as part of Dundee but
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#1732802439331288-454: The driver would have seen it. The subsequent public inquiry found that the guard was not to blame. Why the driver passed the signal remained a mystery. The inquiry speculated that he may have been looking back towards the signal box, or checking that the train was clear of the level crossing . As he then looked up towards the signal he might have concluded that it had moved since he had last seen it and that it had, therefore, been cleared by
312-538: The institute is involved with the Scottish Government's Agriculture and Climate Change Stakeholder Group. 56°27′23″N 3°04′10″W / 56.4565°N 3.0694°W / 56.4565; -3.0694 Invergowrie Invergowrie ( / ˌ ɪ n v ər ˈ ɡ aʊ r i / ) is a village on the northwest bank of the Firth of Tay to the west of Dundee . Historically part of Perthshire , it
336-469: The last four coaches of the Dundee train over the sea wall. The last two broke away completely and ended up in the Firth of Tay while the tide was out. The Class 47 locomotive was subsequently scrapped due to damage. Both passengers in the rear carriage and the driver and secondman of the Aberdeen train were killed instantly. A further passenger died later and a total of 51 people were injured. It
360-415: The signalman. From a position below the signal and fairly close to it, he may also have overestimated the angle of the arm. Various operating staff who saw the signal before and after the accident also gave evidence that the arm was not properly horizontal , including some who said that the degree of elevation appeared to increase as they got closer to it. It was later found that the signal post bracket
384-409: The train picked up speed. He saw the starting signal giving "a poor off" (in other words, somewhere between the "on" and "off" positions), estimating that it was raised 7.4°, but assumed that it had already been put back to Danger after the locomotive had passed it and perhaps had not quite returned to the horizontal position. It is not clear if the guard could have seen the starting signal exactly as
408-551: Was an early Christian site, dedicated to St Curetán . An artistically important and well-preserved cross-slab carved on five faces from this site is on display in the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh . Dating from the early 9th century, the front shows a cross decorated with interlace, the back three stylised clerics, one holding an object which may be a charter with appended seal , above two dragon-like creatures. This cross-slab
432-402: Was badly bent. The bracket may have been struck by a chain hanging from a wagon, or perhaps by engineers' machinery working on the lineside. In addition, the signalling at Longforgan was basic and lacking in many safety features. The Starting signal had no AWS that would have warned the driver of the Aberdeen train, nor was there an adjuster for the pull wire. There was also no repeater in
456-570: Was formerly built into a window of the medieval church, along with another smaller, damaged example, also now in Edinburgh (not on display). The village was formerly part of the estate of Mylnefield. The quarry at Invergowrie supplied important sites around the UK, stone being included in the base of Nelson's column and St Katherine's Docks in London. The quarry workers hit a spring at the beginning of
480-467: Was formerly incorporated as part of the city of Dundee, but is now administered as part of Perth and Kinross . The old parish church, a roofless 16th century building currently in poor condition, survives on a mound in the old kirkyard, by the Gowrie Burn. This site was formerly close to the sea; much land has been reclaimed from the Firth of Tay in recent times, and it is now some way inland. This
504-412: Was launched in 1989. In April 2011 SCRI merged with the Macaulay Land Use Institute to form a new body, The James Hutton Institute . The SCRI has both staff and PhD students who do research into several different aspects of plant science . Research facilities include laboratories , office space, glasshouses , growth chambers and 172 hectares of land which is used for field work. Research at SCRI
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#1732802439331528-562: Was left in Invergowrie Bay, but that is now covered in silt and not visible. The Parish of Longforgan, by Adam Phillips, contains several paragraphs on the subject. The stones are of course glacial deposits. There was also the large Victorian house called "The Gows", now part of the Invergowrie Technology Park. On 22 October 1979 a rail crash occurred after a warning signal was ignored resulting in
552-482: Was left paralysed from the waist. The signalman at Longforgan signal box stated that he put the mechanical starting signal correctly back to Danger behind the Dundee train. Around ten minutes later, the Aberdeen train arrived at his box and drew up to the Home signal, which was then cleared for it. The train continued to move slowly towards the Starting signal but, after a few moments, began to accelerate. It passed
576-556: Was reported the next day that the dead included engine drivers Robert Duncan and William Hume. Robert Duncan was 60 years old, lived in Tayport and was a church elder and a special constable . He had a 19-year-old son. His widow stated that Driver Duncan had worked for British Rail since he was 16. William Hume was a trainee driver aged 20 and resided in Fintry, Dundee . He had only worked for British Rail for four months. Both were in
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