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11 August
Formal opening of the West Highland Railway
04 October
Death of engineer John Rennie the Elder
20 August
Cartoonist Dudley D Watkins dies in Broughty Ferry
28 August
Timex calls time on its Dundee factory
24 May
The Falkirk Wheel opens for business