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matchmaker replied to the thread McGill’s Midland Bluebird.I noticed a Yuotong on the 51 today. -
matchmaker replied to the thread Memories of diesels in the Highlands.Early 1970s. A school railway club trip which started at Queen Street behind a 40 on the Inverness sleeper, although we were in a Mk 1...
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matchmaker replied to the thread Glasgow Subway New Driverless Trains.Whoops!
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matchmaker replied to the thread Glasgow Subway New Driverless Trains.I was surprised to learn that the Subway was an early adopter of continuous welded rain, from about 1939-40.
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matchmaker replied to the thread Glasgow Subway - did anyone ever call it the Clockwork Orange?.Opened December 1896...but still the third oldest in the world after London (1863) and Budapest, which beat it by 6 months (May 1896).
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matchmaker replied to the thread Glasgow Subway - did anyone ever call it the Clockwork Orange?.As a kid I was fascinated to watch the body flexing as we rattled through the tunnels at a terrifying (okay, about 25mph!) speed. Of...
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matchmaker replied to the thread 1970-1974 WCML Weaver Jct -Glasgow electrification.Mansell composite wheels were still in use on LMS design 1st class sleeping cars until the 1970s, I believe.
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matchmaker replied to the thread 1970-1974 WCML Weaver Jct -Glasgow electrification.1787916530 Mk 1s with dual braking and dual heating were common. Mk2s were I understand difficult to dual brake.
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matchmaker replied to the thread Fire at Edinburgh Waverley? (27/08/2026).There was a fatality at Larbert earlier in the day. Caused a lot of disruption as all trains between Stirling and Larbert were cancelled.
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matchmaker posted the thread Glasgow Subway - did anyone ever call it the Clockwork Orange? in Light Rail, Metro & Trams.As per the thread title. I, a born and bred Glaswegian never called it anything other than the Subway, even when the trains were orange...
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matchmaker replied to the thread 1970-1974 WCML Weaver Jct -Glasgow electrification.I seem to remember that around that time there was a promotional £5 Glasgow - London return ticket.
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matchmaker replied to the thread 1970-1974 WCML Weaver Jct -Glasgow electrification.Yes, as soon as you reached the regional boundary (Marshall Meadows on the ECML and 7 miles 78 chains on the WCML) the speed limit...
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matchmaker replied to the thread 1970-1974 WCML Weaver Jct -Glasgow electrification.Image from the Glasgow Herald at the time. Location is the Clyde just upriver from Central Station. Google "Electric locomotive on...
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matchmaker replied to the thread Longest Point Rodding."Isolated Distants" were regarded by the LMS S&T Engineer, A F Bound, as an important marker and he introduced the practice of painting...
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matchmaker replied to the thread Longest Point Rodding.Distance isn't everything. On an official visit to Dalmuir Park signal box during the summer of 1976 the switched diamonds, which were...
