Could be a cheap way of getting the old interiors stripped out from a GWR set.Ther eseems ot be a bit of stink about the cup finals featuring Aberdeen & Rangers and then Celtic and Hearts at the end of October. Aberdeen seem to have been given the lunchtime kick of at Hampden giving only 14 minutes from the arrival of the first train from Aberdeen into Glasgow and kick off! Scotrail have been asked to help out.
Perhaps the HST cold ride to the rescue
It's worse than that - the game starts at 12pm so they'd be 15 minutes late into GLQ, never mind Hampden!Ther eseems ot be a bit of stink about the cup finals featuring Aberdeen & Rangers and then Celtic and Hearts at the end of October. Aberdeen seem to have been given the lunchtime kick of at Hampden giving only 14 minutes from the arrival of the first train from Aberdeen into Glasgow and kick off! Scotrail have been asked to help out.
Perhaps the HST cold ride to the rescue
True, but it's a problem that's been overcome lots in the paston such services.
With a looming overtime ban.
That gets more complicated, as you couldn't run it into Queen Street (2+7 at most, on P7). You could run it via Coatbridge and into Central (as SR did during the Queen Street high-level blockade a few years back), but then they'll need some route conductor, and you take ~20 minutes longer (IIRC), though that might be justified by the fact that they'll all be heading across to Central anyway so the time cost isn't so bad.
That gets into stock clearance issues, though! Are HSTs cleared to Mount Florida (maybe, given XC)? And they'd need to reverse somewhere (probably Central!), unless they ran all the way out via Hamilton Circle (would be very surprised if they were cleared there!) with the extra time that entails. You also limit yourself to six coach trains if you do that.
Not on this occasion.
On the whole I presume it's still a diversion route for the XC routes from Glasgow (which are sometimes HST operated)? But Hamilton Circle?
