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Thanks for that! I’m astonished that it’s so busy, been travelling on this service (primarily INV - EDI) for decades and never known it to be sold out, even on six-nations days etc.

I was trying to book Inverness to Edinburgh in First Class on this date - but First is ‘unavailable’. It can’t be sold out - can it…? Could it be blocked out for another reason? Maybe for participants & crew of “Traitors” or something?

Falkirk High? I’ve always thought it a bit of an anachronism - multiple fast trains per hour but it’s in the middle of low-density ‘burbs compared to Falkirk Grahamston

Skimmed through and surprised I haven’t seen Perth yet. I’ve been using it regularly for 15 years now and it’s definitely deteriorating. Particularly the bridges over platforms 3&4 (held together with rust and pigeon c**p) and the glass canopy over the car park and platforms 5-7. It is now...

In a DMU, is the carriage so heavy itself that it doesn’t make a huge difference to its performance if it is full of passengers or not?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd0755gpvy5o (Sorry if this is old news / posted elsewhere) From the BBC “A railway line hailed as one of the most scenic in the world is to have £15m of repairs and improvements”. Closure for 9 days 7th - 17th November between FTW & CNR. Again, it’s all...

Don’t want to take things too off-topic but, depending on the plans for the old high school site, a straight line SW-NE route would only just nick the north-east corner of the distillery site. But yes, the distillery and pharmaceutical factory really make access from Gorgie to M’field difficult...

I’ve always thought a (relatively) straightforward way to improve accessibility to the tram from a densely populated area would be to create a straight-line route from Gorgie Rd (around Tynecastle) to Murrayfield tram stop. It’s currently an unpleasant and very circuitous 15/ 20 minute walk. It...

I was just about to post similar. I’m starting to wonder just how safe the canopy there is. It’s already an absolute sieve in the rain and one of the footbridges from platform 4 to 3 in particular looks like it’s held together with pigeon **** and rust.

Once again, step up Perth. The canopy over the car park at platforms 5-7 is a sieve and I’m starting to wonder about how safe it is. The two pedestrian bridges over platforms 3/4 are held together with rust and pigeon s***. They won’t do much to it because there are plans for a major renovation...

I visited Morecambe last year and was surprised at how … modest the station was. For a fair-sized town and a popular day trip place I thought the platform felt like a bus stop.

Cheers!

That could well be the case - but I’m sure that there was a little section of track (somewhere!) that stopped the sleeper from being withdrawn.

Sorry if I’ve missed it above, but isn’t there a short section of track from Westerton to Maryhill that is used only by the Fort William sleeper? I have a memory of ScotRail (when they had the sleeper contract) planning to put on a very late night weekly service when they were planning to...

No full cooked breakfast currently available on the Highland Chieftain. I was told it was because a chef has retired and they are having trouble recruiting a replacement. Hardly the end of the world, just another little disappointment in today’s rail travel.