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18/07/2022 Station Hotel Larbert for sale [Herald Scotland] A 166-year-old hotel sited on one of Scotland's busiest railway lines has been brought to market. The Station Hotel in Larbert is well-established having been purpose built as a hotel in 1856, said agent Drysdale and Company. It sits on Foundry Loan which runs immediately opposite Larbert train station on the central Scotland rail line connecting Glasgow, and Edinburgh to the south with Stirling, Perth and Inverness to the north. The hotel is being offered at a guide price £775,000. (Permalink) Larbert Station Hotel Larbert: An Alloa service calls at Larbert on 5 February 2020. David Panton 05/02/2020 Herald Scotland
25/02/2022 ScotRail ticket office closures postponed and fewer in Glasgow will have hours reduced [Glasgow World] Three ScotRail station ticket offices earmarked for closure are to be reprieved for at least two years pending a review of their potential to increase sales. (Permalink) Bellshill Cartsdyke Clydebank Dalmuir East Kilbride High Street Hyndland Larbert Paisley Gilmour Street Partick Ticket offices Wemyss Bay Wishaw Woodhall Cartsdyke: Although superficially similar to its coevals in Glasgow and Lanarkshire Cartsdyke's station has a ticket window separate from the waiting room. I'm sure they knew what they were doing. David Panton 07/03/2019 Clydebank: A study of the station building at Clydebank, one of the many standard structures put up on electrified lines in the Glasgow area in the 1970s leaving few original buildings. In the background is the ... David Panton 01/12/2018 Woodhall: Glasgow Road entrance to Woodhall station on 29 April. Short on well-kept flower beds, no comfy waiting room, but at least there is a ticket office. David Panton 29/04/2009 Glasgow World
12/07/2021 Falkirk areas appalling railway trespass figures revealed in new survey [Falkirk Herald] Falkirk, Larbert and Linlithgow have been identified as some of the worst locations in Scotland for people trespassing on the railway tracks - and putting their lives at risk. (Permalink) Falkirk Larbert Linlithgow Safety Trespass Falkirk Herald
22/05/2020 Falkirk Provost will stand alone to remember Quintinshill rail victims [Falkirk Herald] Remembering the soldiers who died in the rail disaster in May 1915. (Permalink) Larbert Quintinshill Rosebank Cemetery Larbert: Plaque at Larbert station commemorating those who left on the troop train for Liverpool docks bound for Gallipoli in the early hours of 22nd May 1915 only to perish later that morning at Quintinshill. ... John Furnevel 25/05/2005 Rosebank Cemetery: Memorial and roll of honour in Rosebank cemetery to the 200+ men of the Leith Territorial Battalion the Royal Scots, killed as a result of the Quintinshill disaster. See image [[4097]] John Furnevel 23/06/2005 Quintinshill Loops: Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 no 92233 powers a freight north past the loops at Quintinshill in November 1964 as the signalman looks out from the open window of Quintinshill signal box. Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 28/11/1964 Falkirk Herald Quintinshill - One Morning in May Quintinshill Loops