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Donald Stirling, who I think is on here, has posted an excellent set of pictures from today HERE. They appear to be making great progress.

I think THIS was the incident in question.

This picture on Railcar from the opposite direction gives a better view of the North wing. My interpretation is that the current plan is to demolish/dismantle everything up to and including the part adjoining the canopy/footbridge structure: that’s the part with no roof. As a...

Has anyone defined “half of the northern section“ yet?

Currock also did some of the DMU parcels vans conversions. Also refurbished the moleplough cable train.

Camden Road Tunnel.

It’s been closed for several years, was migrated to West of Scotland Signalling Centre.

Post today on the Facebook group “Scottish Railways (Past & Present)” shows significant progress on demolition of the South wing. Apparently some recovered materials have been used to infill the basement with the remainder being removed from site. It appears that the efforts to remove the...

I wasn’t thinking “buzzword” but I’d agree with the general sentiment…..

I believe this was touched on somewhere in one of the threads and CPO couldn’t be invoked as there were no plans for other uses for the building or the land it sits on.

To further complicate matters, it’s owned by an absentee landlord who is believed to be in Singapore and has been unreachable for years. The taxpayer is on the hook for it plus any losses sustained by the scaffolding contractor.

The building was surrounded by scaffolding in an effort to contain any bits that might fall off. Two fires last year not only damaged the building but also heated the scaffolding up possibly resulting in it having to be cut up rather than dismantled to facilitate demolition. There's also the...

NR is now officially stating that they do not expect a “normal“ service until Sunday June 2nd.

Wasn't Inverness the same style? If it still exists

Two to one would be Trailing One to two would be Facing (that’s probably what you’re interpreting as Phasing)

Didn’t Paisley go to WSSC a while back?

Latest word over on the Scot-Rail forum is that the replacement bus companies have been told to plan for at least a further two, and potentially three, months of work. There’s also this article from the Ayr Advertiser which refers to structural damage to the north section of the building...

Railcar has a brochure on refurbishment of the 101s.

The “rule“ in terms of functionality and engineering was that you needed four lit to clear the signal but if another one failed while the signal was cleared, it would stay cleared. I don’t recall ever seeing anything mentioned rules-wise.