Leyland600:
Aye Dennis thoos reet aboot Mealsyeat however I believe the line was also known as the Baggra bus to those folk frae Baggra and Blenraisit.Two anecdotes from my coaching days where at Blackpool one Saturday night a lad from the village had a drink or two too much and was staggering around the coach park asking a Blackpool bobby where the bus to Rasset was parked. On another occasion while dropping off wedding guests at Fletchertown etc a lad asked if he could be dropped off just along past your mate Harry F’s bungalow, I said "you mean by the railway station bridge " then he started arguing that there was no such thing as a railway bridge or station at Mealsgate and he lived there. Have you not been to Baggra Yeat riding shotgun with Alec or RWB in the Trader or Beaver to pick up sheep ?Cheers, Leyland 600
Hiya Gerald, aye Happy days eh! IIRC the railway bridge crossed the T junction at Boltongate road end onto the A595 I think it got took down eventually. When I lived at Ireby in the '50’s Harry lived at Boltongate and his first motor was a Commer stroker IIRC. Now as for visiting farms about Ireby I must have been to a fair number with first of all with AD and AHB on’t Beaver and also with William and RWB on the Comet and then on both the 1st and 2nd Traders with the two lads ! As for loading sheep they always had me up on both decks howking the wooly backs up as they were always reluctant to load and the same at Hawick and St. Boswells sales ! It was a fair load 200 sheep or fat lambs on the old Beaver ! I just bet you’ve had some fair coaching experiences hawking a “Shara” load of well “oiled Marras” up and down eh! Oh! and according to the Border news to-night it’s a gay dangerous place to live in Wigton nowadays ! 
Cheers Dennis.