Recent content by neil57d

The main problem with the signalling seems to have been faults with axle counters. When a fault has developed they have chosen to stop all trains and wait for technicians to fix the problem rather than institute pilotman working on the single line sections and keep the train service going.

I was a student at St Andrews in the late 1960s. There was a bay platform at the south end of Leuchars Jn used by Leuchars-St Andrews trains. The layout at Leuchars South Jn included a crossover to the down line. Trains from St Andrews to Dundee used the down platform at Leuchars, and trains...