Recent content by Strathclyder

It would've been a no-go zone for at least several days after he left. After all, you need at least some time to get rid of the smell...

The 12th 450 used a written off (accident damaged) 80 class unit's internals, I seem to recall? There were only 11 70 class units, so the 12th 450 had to have gotten it's internals from somewhere.

Martin Loader (hondawander) has a photo of the clean-up/recovery operations of this accident dated two days later (10th March). Grisly stuff and it shows just how close the 86 came to that person's house (much like 66521 at Great Heck ending up in someone's garden 5 years later, demolishing...

Barring Chernobyl, Piper Alpha was the one that sprang to mind most readily when I saw the thread (and before I saw the preference for non-fatal accidents in the opening post). British Airways Flight 5390 which occured on 10th June 1990, the aircraft model involved was a BAC One-Eleven and it...

The Stadler/3rd-gen stock on the Glasgow Subway replacing the Met-Camm/2nd-gen stock comes to mind with light rail/metro. It certainly seems to have gone more smoothly than both the Tyne & Wear and Merseyrail upgrades/replacement programmes, regardless of - or perhaps because of - the Subway's...

Indeed, but only if Russia/Putin do the same, which I somewhat doubt given their silence on the matter thus far, to say nothing of their attacks on civillan infrastructure in Ukraine not letting up. The only reason he's come out with this idea at all is just another desperate, flailing attempt...

You'd have to a complete and utter halfwit or a fully bought and paid for kool-aid drinker - or both; such 'qualities' aren't mutually exclusive in MAGA-land - to think even for a nanosecond that Trump has anyone's best interests at heart barring his own (given his diet, even that is very much...

Although I'm a bit hazy on the exact dates, am certain that stopping pattern for the Larkhall services had gone by the time of the Queen Street blockade starting in March 2016, those services becoming all-stations stoppers. Don't quote me on that though.

Those would've been the Dalmuir/Milngavie - Larkhall services in the days before the Whifflet Line was wired and subsumed into the wider Argyle Line network at the expense of through Dalmuir/Milngavie - Lanark services in the December 2014 timetable recast. These trains also skipped Cambuslang...

Not to revive a month old thread, but it definitely sounds like it; was done as part of it's rebuild/refurb at Brodies after it ran into floodwater on the Glasgow South Western in late 2014 (478 was previously a First Barbie unit inside and out). No other ScR 156 had the Saltire/Ashbourne combo...

I assume you're referring to 156478? Northern have now got that one, they recieved it after ScotRail's lease expired in (I believe) late 2023. 1791598342 The latter's reopening I thought was dependent on the redevelopment plans for the former IBM site getting the go-ahead. I haven't heard much...

The petulance, whinging and self-martyrdom is, as always, off the scale, entirely predictable and makes one wish that one of those sodding cheeseburgers will finally do the planet and humanity a favour and drop-kick Trump off the mortal coil. 'Defending US sovereignty' my left buttcheek. Long...

Not worth the risk of being hit by flying ketchup imho. 1791558282 Always has, always will.

Hence why I put it in parentheses, I have long believed it to be nothing more than a empty, purely transactional one. The 2nd Trump regime has merely stripped any and all pretenses to the contrary away. Yeah, upon reflection, that's a far better way of going about it. I always end up being far...

We (as in, the rest of NATO) are caught between a rock and a fat orange place here, yes, but if given the choice between kowtowing to a demented moron's witless demands without question or at least asserting something resembling a sovereign backbone and telling him and his ringkissers to sod off...