There was a plan I came across many years ago that showed it going to two platforms in conjunction with the resignalling in the 70s.
My bad, not the Daily Record. Corrected.
www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk
I went along to one a month or so back. Perhaps I was unlucky but the two Network Rail people I spoke to knew less about the project than me.A press release has now appeared about the above-mentioned drop-in events.
Community invited to drop-in events for Barrhead electrification work
Residents will be able to find out more about the work directly from the project team.
If I lived nearby, I would try to get to one and try to ask questions, more about EK than about the official subject!
Similar platform work is currently being carried out at Pollokshaws West at the momentA press release has now appeared about the above-mentioned drop-in events.
Community invited to drop-in events for Barrhead electrification work
Residents will be able to find out more about the work directly from the project team.
If I lived nearby, I would try to get to one and try to ask questions, more about EK than about the official subject!
New Foot Bridge Some Locals Comments. Most saying that it looks better than they had envisaged and a reasonable replacement for the original but preferred the old one. One lady stopped her car and shouted out that it was monstrous and too parapets were too high. Told her that the height was to deter people from climbing over so they couldn't get near the live wires she kind of took that in!!!. Her next objection was that it wasn't safe as the young kids would crawl between the spaces and fall onto the line below. When told that there would be Heavy Perspex Panels fitted in the spaces. Window up & quickly drove away. Certainly not designed for disabled and to a lesser extent elderly people. Over time with some landscaping, weathering and some stone work cladding fitted it will eventually be accepted
There were steps before (not physically the same ones) as can be seen on Streetview:
I rather like it - though the devil will be in the detailing (e.g. the cladding for the steps).
It does beg the question why it was replaced rather than simply removed. I guess in the scheme of the project it's not much but it does seem somewhat over-engineered for what is a tiny convenience to the general public.
Wasn't there an outcry (from the local residents/Glasgow City Council) at the possibility of its removal without replacement?
There's always an outcry any time anybody does anything. If we want to be able to continue to actually move forward as a country we need to stop listening to hysterical people crying 'won't somebody think of the children!' as a cover for worrying about their house price.
a very accurate one though.
Both spot on. I came across a protest against HS1 in Westminster Square many years ago. They'd hired a truck with huge loudspeakers, and the protesters stood around, covering up their ears, with their faces scrunched up in agony at the "unbearable noise" (and of course children present too, because their hearing would be irreparably damaged). And now no-one bats an eyelid.
I agree. When the project scope was reduced they cancelled electrification of the Larkfield link but they kept this unnecessary footbridge. No doubt the eventual electrification of the Larkfield link will cost a lot more than it would have cost to do it now, with the compounds and plant in place already.
Is it now known to have been cancelled? When last discussed upthread it seemed to be more of a plausible inference.
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The Strathbungo Society published a letter from Network Rail, here is an extract:
The full letter is at BungoBlog
I wrote on this a while back. If you have, say, a points failure at Muirhouse, you can’t divert an electric and depending on where an electric is when it happens, you’ve potentially shut services from Kilmarnock, Barrhead and East Kilbride.
So, if they’re “demobilising“ those sites, where will their compound be for EK?
The old Burnfield Briquette Works?
