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It's used occasionally to turn back late runners. I ended up in it a year ago when my Leven service got cancelled at Kirkcaldy. You can turn back on the Down line too, but invariably there's something on your tail by Kirkcaldy so having the siding means a cancelled train can get shunted out the way.

It came up just a few months ago - it's unlikely to happen in the next few years as there's no support from Transport Scotland and as a result no official support from the council...

It looks like there will be a tree cutting session sometime either during the October block or over the winter, as there's a whole load of foilage at Thornton Junction needing dealt with too....

As announced on 10th July - https://scotlandsrailway.com/projects/fife-electrification - Inverkeithing & Thornton North (via Kirkcaldy): 10 to 20 October Thornton North, Cupar & Hilton Junction: 20 to 24 October Lochgelly & Glenrothes: 24 to 28 October

I was down recently and took some video showing progress with the masts going up -

Eutectic Strips

Indeed - Southport is 10mph within station limits, and then only 20mph all the way to Meols Cop; so no great hurry to get going!

A couple of photos showing the masts up around the access point just south of Thornton Junction.

Yes, it was an evening peak service - I remember working it... it was initially a 319 working and then when it changed to a 6 car 331 service it became a problem as the conductors local door in car 4 was off the platform, so we had to lock out the back unit at Preston; until a platform extension...

Truck stuck under the E&G bridge at Balgreen. Fortunately no damage and the MOM has since authorised line speed over the bridge.

As of today, there's been no change on the down line - still wired from the back of M&S to 1km short of the north end of the scheme. Recent progress has been on the up line with the north 1km wired as noted by TrainViation; the catenary wire also now extends south to where the recently...

Finally. I asked Chris Jackson about this a good number of years ago and all I got told then was that it was for fleet technical reasons!

The same, should be known as SDO switch but it overrides the ASDO; such is jargon - try telling people about BILs when we've always called them hazard lights......

The last time I checked was that conductors at Northern had an instruction to use the SDO switch on multiple 331s as the ASDO isn't reliable. Curiously for a number of years now you are allowed to let ASDO work on multiple 195s.... Officially at Deansgate (Down) it's only 11 doors release as...

They're everywhere! I noticed that even the access path to the platform at Corrour, over the engineers loop, has a camera now when I was up there recently.