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A section of Sinclair Street will be closed overnight later this week while officials examine the nearby rail bridge.
(Permalink) Bridge inspection Greenock Sinclair Street |
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The senior politician has welcomed ScotRail's new winter timetable which brings in seven extra trains on the Inverclyde line, creating ahalf-hourly service on Sundays.
(Permalink) Greenock Inverclyde ScotRail Timetable |
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Trains running between Gourock and Port Glasgow were cancelled after a vehicle collided with a railway bridge.
(Permalink) Bridge Strike Greenock Sinclair Street Tractor |
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Inverclyde commuters have faced a second consecutive morning of rail disruption today due to a signalling fault.
(Permalink) Glasgow Greenock Signalling fault |
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The UK Government has been told it should reconsider its decision to snub a Glasgow bid to be one of the country's freeports to boost the economy and create jobs. The Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, announced that Cromarty and Forth would be given the freeport status to give it tax incentives to attract investment. The two beat other bids including a Glasgow Region bid involving the airport, Mossend Rail Freight terminal and the River Clyde.
(Permalink) Cromarty Forth Forth Green Freeport Glasgow Airport Green Freeport Greenock Greenock Containerport Inverness and Cromarty Firth Green Freeport Mossend Marshalling Yard Railfreight  Mossend Marshalling Yard: 90039, just after its 'Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport' naming ceremony at Mossend, showing off its black 'Backbone' livery on 9th November 2021.
 Fouldubs Junction: DRS 68008 leaves Fouldubs Junction on 30 November with the 4A13 Grangemouth - Aberdeen intermodal.  Invergordon: A Class 24 without a headcode panel - an unusual sight in the Highlands - shunts Invergordon Goods Yard in summer 1973. The harbour branch trails off to the right. |
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Bad weather, infrastructure problems and trespassers are among the reasons that have caused thousands of cancelled train services on the Gourock and Wemyss Bay lines.
(Permalink) Cancellations Gourock Greenock Inverclyde Line Wemyss Bay |
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MSC UK has announced a new rail service connecting Mossend in Scotland via Hams Hall, to Felixstowe and London Gateway.
The new Mossend rail service builds upon MSC UKs investment into the Scottish market by complementing two existing weekly calls into the ports of Grangemouth and Greenock. (Permalink) Felixstowe Grangemouth Greenock Hams Hall London Gateway MSC UK Mossend Marshalling Yard |
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A lorry has become wedged underneath a Greenock railway bridge.
(Permalink) Bridge strike Dellingburn Street Greenock |
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Greenock's much-loved model railway exhibition has hit the buffers after being made homeless with organisers now in a race against time to get the event back on track.
(Permalink) Greenock Model Railway Exhibition |
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It's full steam ahead for a Greenock family who have launched an online fundraiser to help get their remarkable garden railway back on track.
(Permalink) Garden railway Greenock |
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Firefighters scaled ladders to inspect the bridge and the trapped vehicle.
(Permalink) Bridge strike Greenock Sinclair Street |
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ScotrailL bosses are under fire for failing to reinstate 'fast' train services from Inverclyde to Glasgow.
(Permalink) Express Glasgow Gourock Greenock Inverclyde Timetabling  Gourock: 380001 at Gourock station waiting to depart for Glasgow Central on 25th July 2017.  Port Glasgow: Dalry Road Black 5 4-6-0 no 45360 with an Edinburgh (Princes Street) to Gourock express photographed leaving Port Glasgow on Saturday 20 July 1963. |
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