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I, along with my wife, was booked on the Push-Pull railtour. When it was cancelled, I decided we were going to recreate the journey using internal ScotRail services. Hence: Saturday. Stirling to Inverness Ist class in an HST. Quiet and comfortable, plenty of legroom. Catering - sandwiches from...

I'm booked on the above together with my wife. We're joining at Glasgow Queen Street. Going to Inverness is via Perth and the HML and is shown as leaving Glasgow at 10.00 and arriving in Inverness at 17.00. Return leg is via Aberdeen, Dundee and the Tay and Forth Bridges. Leaves Inverness at...

Hillfoot, actually. From STV news. Cow

I'm currently making up a rake of 4mm Mk 1 coaches to represent a typical WCR rake. Mk 1 RTR models are in the pipeline from Bachmann (plus Mk 2 from Accurascale) but there is no indication when they will be available, so I'm converting Hornby Mk 1s. The bogies are wrong (should be Commonwealth...

Almost! BBC news story Well done to all concerned.

Can anyone shed light on what class 27s had the recess for the Mansons tablet catcher, or did they all?

Published today Stirling transport proposals The proposals include new stations and a park and ride. Verdicts so far seem to be negative - this is a council who to encourage us to recycle have reduced the collections of the recycling bins fron fortnightly to four weekly...:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Driver was lucky! BBC news story RAIB report

A very interesting article about Freightliners only female driver in Scotland. Also covers mental health issues. BBC news story

I've received a "Neighbour Notification". Work commences 30th April to convert the existing AHB crossing to full barriers with object detection. Works will continue to 31st May, with the B832 road closed from 30th April to 10th May.

I recently bought Hugh Longworths book "British Railways pre-nationalisation coaching stock Volume 2 LMS & SR". It contains listings of every LMS & SR coach taken over by BR at nationalisation. I was surprised just how many pre-grouping coaches were included, but the most remarkable fact that I...

From Kingdom FM website. https://www.kingdomfm.co.uk/news/local-news/levenmouth-rail-link-to-reopen-after-half-a-century/

Trains disrupted this morning between Stirling and Dunblane because of a cow on the line. Yesterday was 35 years since the Polmont disaster - caused by a cow on the line.

I took a drive to Oban yesterday - just for a day out. The road runs close to the railway in several places and I noticed several mileposts which looked as if they'd had a recent coat of paint. I couldn't figure out where the mileages were worked out from until I got home and had a look at the...

I'm now 61 and as a child lived in the west of Glasgow. My local station was on the North Clyde lines so my first experience of a train was an electric "Blue Train". However, if we visited my aunts and uncles in Carnoustie and Aberdeen, or went on holiday down the Clyde coast, the trains were...

A "Prior Information Notice" was published yesterday on the Public Contracts Scotland web portal https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT333240 "Scotrail requires a suitably qualified supplier who can develop a detailed engineering design and a supplier to...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-39204467 From BBC. Opposite to the norm?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-38769065

Phil Verster has quit. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38687889

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-37506251 From BBC Scotland News. Wonder what the idea was?