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Foxlow Junction
Plenty of EMU drags are ongoing in October 2024. Here is a move from Doncaster to Old Dalby, seen in ...
Heswall
Flooding around the Welsh Borders. 230008 departs Heswall with the 1320hrs TfW service from Bidston ...
Dalmeny Junction
A GBRf class 66 waits at Dalmeny Junction with a ballast train for the track renewal on the Down ...
Bay Horse
Four refurbished Inter7City HST coaches were moved north from Wolverton on 17th October 2024. Rail ...
Bo^ness
Ivatt 2MT 2-6-2T 41312, visiting from the Mid Hants Railway, leads 80105 with a train for Manuel ...
Woodacre Crossing
With several wheel flats knocking loudly on the lead loco and the tank wagons, 66430 passes Woodacre ...
Bo^ness
Neilson Reid (5710 of 1899) No.1 in CR tank make-over as 56377 leaves Bo'ness during the 2024 Autumn ...
Woodacre Crossing
Cascaded 323 EMUs have been driver training for some time on the Blackpool line but on the morning ...
Daisy Hill
A modification to the booking office at Daisy Hill will allow a lift to be installed in 2024/25 ...
Retford Low Level
The RHTT season has now started 66848 and 66847 pass Retford Thrumpton with 3S13, 0927 Sheffield to ...
Thorntonhall
Network Rail will upgrade the railway bridge on Peel Road in Thorntonhall from Saturday 5 October. ...
East Fife Central Junction
A glimpse of the new active travel route bridge, from a passing train on the Leven branch, on 1st ...
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On this day
| 1860 | Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway) Line opened from Wilsontown Junction [1st] to Wilsontown. |
| 1883 | Gwendraeth Valleys Railway Abbeydore closed |
| 1897 | Wemyss Coal Company Ltd Wemyss Collieries Trust Mineral rights transferred to the Wemyss Collieries Trust with Wemyss Coal Company Ltd as the lease and mines management company. |
| 1900 | Dundee Corporation Tramways Electric trams introduced on Lochee route. |
| 1972 | Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Powerbox modernised. |
| 1979 | Perth and Dundee Railway 5 are killed (sources vary, some say 4) when two trains collide near Invergowrie when one over-runs a signal. A Glasgow to Aberdeen service runs into the rear of a Glasgow to Dundee local train resulting in carriages falling into the sea. The cause was a deficient semaphore which did not return to danger. |
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This day in history
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Parkhead V1 2-6-2T no 67629 on the turntable at Helensburgh shed on 22 October 1960. G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow (1960) |
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Notes and Queries
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A Class 47 loco stabled near a junction in summer 1989 but where and what are those gantries for? |
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Related to Clyde Bridge.Clyde Viaducts
Viaducts crossing and tunnels under the River Clyde going upstream:
Glasgow District Subway
Clyde Viaduct [Glasgow Central]
Clyde Viaduct [Glasgow Central] [1st]
Glasgow District Subway
Union Bridge
Clyde Viaduct [Rutherglen] [1st]
Clyde Viaduct [Rutherglen]
Clyde Hot Metal Bridge
Clyde Bridge
Clydebridge Viaduct
Rosebank Bridge
Westburn Viaduct
Clyde Viaduct [Uddingston]
Clyde Viaduct [Uddingston] [1st]
Craighead Viaduct
Camp Viaduct
Sandilands Viaduct
Float Viaduct
Wolfclyde Viaduct
Lamington Viaduct
Crawford Viaduct
Crawford Viaduct [Camps Reservoir Railway]
Bodsberry Viaduct
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Key events
| May 2024 | 50th anniversary of the Electric Scots Continuing ASLEF dispute at DfT operators overtaken by general election Barrhead/East Kilbride conductor dispute resolved Peak fares trial extended to August First Minister officially opens £116M Levenmouth Railway |
| April 2024 | New active travel route at Gourock Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Central the first stations in Britain to have British Sign Language on their main departure screens Joanne Maguire new interim ScotRail MD, Liam Sumpter to head Network Rail in Scotland |
| March 2024 | Alex Hynes departure announced from Scotland for DfT Jacobite suspended |
| February 2024 | Dunblane resignalling to allow southbound trains to depart from Platform 3 Highland networks closed by storm on 5 February East Kilbride carpark reduced for new station construction Addiewell temporarily closed for reconstruction Brodick ferries diverted to Troon by Ardrossan pier damage Seawall damage near Helmsdale |
| January 2024 | 'The Hatch' café opens at Singer 'Reboot your Commute' advertising campaign Four loops taken out of use during snow on HML Storms Isha and Jocelyn led to network closures from 1900 on 21 and 23 January Storm Ingunn on 31 January closed West and North Highland routes |
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| Southend Pier Railway 1975, 2019 and 2022 | [[images]] | 0 photos |
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| Milton Keynes | 
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Books
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The Railways of Stirling
ASIN 1915069297
Publisher Lightmoor Press
Published 2023-09-20
Author(s) Peddie, Donald
Class 08 Locomotives in Scotland (Class Locomotives)
ASIN 1398105600
Publisher Amberley Publishing
Published 2023-10-15
Author(s) Howat, Colin J.
The Dundee & Arbroath Railway
ASIN 1915069173
Publisher Lightmoor Press
Published 2023-02-24
Author(s) Ferguson, Niall
Edinburgh, Granton and Leith Railways
ASIN 1398108561
Publisher Amberley Publishing
Published 2023-04-15
Author(s) Williamson, Kenneth G.
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