Recent content by shotts56

Agreed. Since the ScotRail app blew up, the last week or so I’ve been trying other apps for my regular Wishaw to Glasgow commute. Both Railboard and TrainSplit have given me e-tickets which have the ability to go into my Apple Wallet, which is just so much handier.

Same at Wishaw, the "3" and the "6" signs have been removed in the last week. The 3 carriage trains now stop at the very far away end of the platform at the same place as the 6 carriage trains would, meaning the 3 carriage trains now stops miles past the ticket office. If you are standing at...

Unless I'm very much mistaken, messing about with the online booking system this morning now that the new fares have been uploaded, that doesn't appear to be the case. Buying an off-peak return with a Veterans Railcard and departure before 0915 doesn't give you a discount on the new cheaper...

My thoughts exactly.

Southbound from Glasgow sold out tonight as well. I often have to make last minute travel arrangements to get to London, and I don't ever remember not being able to get on the old sleeper at short notice. I miss the old sleeper :-)

Holytown train station isn't in Holytown, its in New Stevenson. They are two distinct villages with greenfield between them, and Holytown station is in the area of New Stevenson farthest away from Holytown, so I've always wondered why the station is named the way it is.

Why don't you stop hiding your feelings and say what you really mean ? :D

Doesn't save the problem for all. Most of Lanarkshire (ie those coming on the Motherwell/Wishaw/Carstairs or the Bellshill/Shotts lines) go into Edinburgh through Wester Hailes, meaning the first opportunity to get to Edinburgh Park or surrounding areas is to go into Haymarket and then...

How did you get your season ticket onto your smartcard ? I've been trying for weeks to get them to load my annual paper season ticket onto it without success. The smartcard telephone team sound pleasant and helpful, but keep telling me to email customer relations, who never respond. I...

Its the same some of thing that resulted in their being more arrests at the Take That concert at Hampden two years ago than there has ever been at any Old Firm game ever. The behaviour of some ****ed up middle-aged women on their one night out of the year has to be seen to be believed sometimes.

My favourite platform is one at one of the stations in the Lake District (Oxenholme maybe?) which just says simply "Beware Of Trains". Something we should all remember when entering a train station.

You would think this is what would happen, but in reality it doesn't. After Scotland games at Hampden, the queue at Mount Florida station is generally around 30-45 mins long, and very often when you do get onto the platform you can often to wait quite some time for the next timetabled train...

I think you might be making stuff up here. You are unlikely to get "football yobs" on a train on a Friday night because there are no football matches played in Scotland on Friday nights, the police will not allow it.

You need a better thread title. Most people will simply ignore it, it's so vague. Only my curiosity and the bottle of wine I've just had (!) made me click on it.

The last home game (Spain midweek?) we were certainly turned away at the barriers and told to go on the football special. From what I could see, everyone in kilts was getting told the same, and those in civvies were getting let through.