Recent content by fisher2511

As usual, no thought of passengers from the Largs line. The hourly train is being terminated at Kilwinning at 32 minutes past the hour. There is an hourly service from Ayr to Paisley, which leaves Kilwinning at 27 minutes past the hour, so a 55 minute wait at Kilwinning. The return journey...

Fairlie has no ticket issuing facilities.

Eastleigh platform 1 which used to be used for Romsey and Salisbury trains.

There are several properties that can only be accessed by a level crossing in Corpach near Fort William. Some are accessed by a private level crossing with a sign saying Authorised Users Only.

A much better idea would be to redouble the entire route and run fast expresses from Waterloo to Exeter, Barnstaple , Plymouth and Penzance. It would allow slow trains from Paddington via Bristol to connect at Exeter.

Catching a train into Glasgow Central can be really annoying if the ticket inspector stays in the back cab for the entire journey. I travel from a unstaffed station with no ticket machine, and if I can’t buy a ticket on the train, I have to queue up to buy a ticket to exit the barrier. Not good...

Tonight is the last night of Stagecoach operations from Stranraer, Dumfries and Whithorn depots. Only a few Stagecoach buses based at Dumfries and Stranraer as outstations of Cumbernauld and Ayr. Let’s hope the changeover to the new operators goes well and passengers aren’t left stranded.

It would be more sensible for the coach to Cairnryan to connect with trains from Girvan or Stranraer. However, the train and ferry timetables are such that no connections are possible without a very long wait.

It was one of the locos at Derby I thought they could use. I’m sure the Gathering could spare one.

Surely there were plenty of spare locos at Derby that could have been hooked up to some Mk1 coaches to clear the backlog.

So from Glasgow to London will require Scotrail from Glasgow to Carlisle via Dumfries, Trans Pennine from Carlisle to Preston, then Avanti from Preston to London. Avanti are extracting the michael as usual.

They wouldn’t fit under the Ryde tunnel.

When I used it to travel from Glasgow to Bristol for a morning meeting, I used to get the sleeper to Taunton and another train back to Bristol, in order to arrive at a sensible time.

Darvel to Strathaven can’t even support a bus service.

The Scottish Government has hopefully learned lessons from the Calmac Ferry fiasco, and is allowing sufficient time for the HST replacements to be designed, sourced, built and commissioned in time for the planned 2030 replacement. Six years seems sensible. Of course, journalists, particularly...