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I would have thought the fairest way to approach this would be for the match to be postponed until the players are available, however I get the impression that the SPFL don't really bother too much about this cup, it is seen by many as a cheap season filler when the bigger teams with genuine...

Ross County 14 - Hearts B 0. The KDM Challenge Cup has been universally disliked by fans in Scotland as the Premier Division clubs are invited to enter a B team, and most do. The issue here is that Hearts had played a reasonably strong youth team against two previous opponents and won...

They can't sack O'Neil yet, they need to wait until Leicester City sack Russell Martin, who would be an excellent replacement following his sparkling spell with the other ugly sister

Sacked by Southampton, sacked by Rangers after a humiliating spell, what in earth was the attraction of Martin for Leicester?

Well for me it was round to the fountain for a bus home to Coatdyke!

I am lucky enough to have both this book and "Britain's New Railway" in my collection along with the full volumes of Modern Railways from the run up to full electrification.

The memory of buying a ticket was to go to Coatbridge Central, they still didn't believe me after being shown the timetable! Yes indeed, that connecting service was formed by a three car class 101 Met-Cammell D.M.U. and one of three single car Gloucester R.C.& W. class 122's, no's...

Pictures appearing today on Facebook showing that all signals and points have been disconnected, what's left beyond Dunragit now effectively a long siding.

Slightly off topic, but I am aware that there were multiple locations in Scotland were there was gauntletted track from a point near the signalbox to a junction which would have required a long rod.

Notice that my local station Coatbridge Central was left off the list despite still having the overnight Perth/Inverness to Euston call.

Couple not mentioned yet, Bellgrove (City Union/Queen Street LL and Airdrie/Springburn) Springburn (Queen St HL/Cowlairs and Cumbernauld/Bellgrove)

I have been absolutely pestered with emails like these, they are some variation in content and format and appear to come from legitimate email address, have tried replying with remove but they keep on coming, any suggestions how to get rid. Hi There, I'm reaching out to see if there are things...

Think they would need to revert to a 21st century version of the diagram 1/131 or FVX/FVV wagons. They comfortably transported Transit Vans from Bathgate so would cope with the largest of the Chelsea Tractor family

At Glasgow Central (and Carlisle IIRC) there was a specially designed wagon for unloading cars. At Glasgow the train would use platform 11 so that cars had access to the adjacent roads. See photo.

Just a last comment on charity shops. One in North Berwick had a Bachmann class 40 and three Bachmann coaches for sale. £170 for the loco, £70 each for the coaches! Popped in to ask if the prices were correct and was told that they were charging a similar price to Ebay. I shook my head and left