Recent content by sng7

None, the fire occured overnight when all the trams were at the depot. No trams stable overnight in Leith as there isn't any secure place to stable them they all go to Gogar.

I think any position of avoid railways in heatwaves is an overreaction. Even if both of the notable derailments this week are due to heat (which is something we do not know at this point) railways are no doubt still safer than driving (which is most people’s alternative). The events this week...

The public communication about it has been verry poor. The website for it (https://www.brightbustours.com/brightbus-airport-express/) is still up with no mention about it ending. The only hint on the website is that when you go to try and buy tickets it says no more trips today.

150 extra tickets went on saleon the branch line society website this evening and (from what I can see) at the moment there still looks to be some available.

You can just manually add the trip into the app, it doesn't have to display in the jounrey search for the interail pass to be valid.

Some (if not most) cancellations seem to be for a few reasons (unrelated to each other and not to do with the greatest gathering). The Britianic Explorer cancellations are due to the issues with the refurbished coaches for it that have been shared elsewhere The SRPS Railtours later in August...

The terms and conditions of the event (visible here) say 20L backpacks not A4, so that is what they will have to follow.

The planning application for it was also approved in May. This link should take you to it: https://planning.westlothian.gov.uk/publicaccess/caseDetails.do?caseType=Application&keyVal=SH0NNWRJK7S00 or search application 0551/FUL/24 in the west lothian planning portal

When I was there last summer I saw a loco hauled Flixtrain as well

It won't be that one as according the to the british trams online fleet list the capital radio tram in that news article is 262 not 269. Also from British trams online 269 was in use in march so whatever has has stopped it has occured in the last couple of months.

Based on this page of edinburgh trams website: https://edinburghtrams.com/scottish-national-entitlement-card It seems that it generally is true with one exception that does not apply to the vast majority of NEC holders.

Isn't Loch Eil Outward bound a tocken exchange point for the RETB signalling system hence train may have to stop there anyway?

As shown in the image below there are some examples of raised check rails visible in the points and crossing at the western end of Edinburgh Waverley Station. When you see them from a train they are clearly significantly taller than the rail head so you can understand why you wouldn't want...

It is running behind schedule. The best places I have seen for updates are the twitter/X account (https://twitter.com/LocomotionNH) and the facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091972330903) for the project.

Based on this news article I belive it was not the branch to rosyth that was filled in but the older (and dissued for many more years) branch to north queensferry. I think its the one that I have highlighted in this image from the national libraries of scotland georeferenced maps, but I am not...