Recent content by Markinch

I notice that there have been a few (maybe 4) return passenger workings between Edinburgh and Linlithgow this afternoon. This seems to be an "evening peak" thing: if it's possible to run this service (and it has actually run - I've checked RTT), why isn't it running throughout the day, thus...

Aye Rickbald the Bald, obviously there are loads of STPs (and even VSTPs) with the knock-on effects of CV19 and the like and I wouldn't expect the current WTT printed versions to be at all accurate as a result. But this trend (missing schedules, whole routes left out) seems to have been going...

For many, I won't need to explain that WTT is Working Timetable, i.e. not the regular passenger timetable but more like one allegedly used by the industry. The WTT (well, there are hundreds - if not thousands - of them altogether) details all workings on a particular route (there's usually a...

Agus Nollaig Chridheil a Marc-Innis

Update: All systems go with the new station (as from about 20th Sept). However, the lift (the only disabled access to Platform 1) was observed to be out of action at about 1430 on Friday 5th October and again between 0755 and 0840 on Monday 8th October. Furthermore, on Saturday 13th October a...

A note about "doubling passenger numbers". My impression is that this was achieved largely at the expense of other operators on route sections such as Edinburgh-Newcastle, Newcastle-York/Leeds, Sheffield-Derby, Derby-Birmingham, Birmingham-Leamington, Banbury-Reading and...

I'm pretty sure the Aberdeen section has run via Grahamston, Stirling, Perth and Dundee before now.

It is somewhat off-****ing to see that the majority of posts in this thread concern some argument between metric and imperial units. As regards "flighting", this is already done with Fife Circle-type services. This means that South Gyle, Dalmeny and North Queensferry, instead of getting a...

Wel, Rydw i wedi ymweld a gwefan W&SR i weld beth ydy'r cynllwyn. Ac beth oeddwn i'n ei ddarganfod? 'Doedd 'na ddim gair o Gymraeg i'w weld. Wel, efallai rhwy ffoto o "Wrecsam Cyffredinol". Wnaiff hynny mo'r tro o gwbl.

...but do they do it for the more needy passengers in Second (or "substandard") Class?

I reckon the SW-NW XC trains use the indirect route into New Street not to avoid reversing, but to relieve congestion on the University track. For a while, the first XC passenger service from Edinburgh to Dundee has run non-stop between Inverkeithing and Markinch. And there's a similar...

Recently, I spoke with a chap from TrainspotScotland about the new Forth crossing - and examined the glossies they produced. It seems that one Stewart Stevenson (Minister of Trainspot) - and the folk behind the new crossing proposal in TS - have been told by Knotwork Rail that "capacity can be...

So, if the Edinburgh trams are going ahead, why is Trainspot Scotland recommending that the new Forth crossing be road only? I thought the idea was to use it, as well as for road, for light rail linking into the Edinburgh tram system and helping to relieve congestion on the full-to-capacity...

Markinch Station's new ticket office is due to open on 5th September, with most of the rest open about mid September. This includes (I believe) the new lift to Platform 1. This was originally to be a ramp, but the design was changed to a lift at the last minute and we were threatened with...

No pics, I'm afraid, but I used to use South Aylesbury Halt (next to Stoke Mandeville Hospital) in the 1960s.