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Fingers crossed that 1A61 2140 GLQ-ABD does become a 170, as in reality doing single door with a five car HST on a Saturday night at four stops is not fun at all!

It’s over taken by 1T34, the 1538 Aberdeen to Glasgow. 2L60 sits on platform 1, departing at 1650. While 1T34 takes the loop and makes it’s stop on platform 1S, departing at 1645. It is a bit of an oddity as most Arbroath to Edinburgh locals follow the Aberdeen to Edinburgh a few minutes...

First class could be at either end. Due to them not always working back and forth on the same routes (and some of their empty moves) can result in the Set chopping and changing which direction they’re going round in. Especially in the example you have mentioned above.

A recommendation for anybody finding themselves on Scotland’s east coast. I live in Aberdeen and have a few times walked along the coastal path between Arbroath and Dundee in various combinations. Nice views of the sea, some nice beaches, the railway is practically beside you the whole way, and...

Cool, thanks for the answer.

Wondering if anybody can shed a light, or even confirm whether I was imaging it or not, but did I see a class 14 sitting in the grounds of an industrial estate just south of Inverurie this afternoon? There were also a couple of parcels(?) vans too. Who do they belong to? When did they appear?

There were also quite a few sets stuck in the wrong places, so I guess they’ll take a day or two to get slotted back into the right diagrams. Control have to watch space in various depots for over night stabling, especially as there are other trains that’ll be taking up space following storm...

West Highland has both ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper between Craigendoran and Fort William

The diagram that starts as the 0727 Edinburgh to Aberdeen was covered by a pair of 158s this morning… Not sure whether they remained on it or got swapped for an HST later. But the 0727 Edinburgh and Aberdeen and 1101 Aberdeen to Edinburgh for sure wasn’t an HST.

Some examples I’ve seen on Saturday night shifts: people pretending to jump from the platform as the train comes through the station, people throwing themselves/body slamming into the side of the train as it’s coming to a stop/starting to move off, pass com activations both accidentally and on...

The down platform, Perth bound, at Gleneagles has quite a considerable step down, mainly due to the can’t of the curve. I’ve nearly torn trousers stepping on and off an HST there!

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There’s a vacancy with LNER in Aberdeen for a part time customer host (17.5 hours per week), the salary is advertised as £23,350-£25,822. (Link below) Would that be correct for part-time? Just seems a lot to me. Can anybody from LNER offer clarification...

From my experience I’ve managed on several occasions to reset these new controls and got the on board temperatures down from 27°+ to about 20-21°, in about 15-20 minutes. An issue seems to be that not all guards/depots have been briefed on how to do this. And also, some sets just won’t reset...

Aberdeen has the shopping centre, Union Square, attached. There’s quite a selection of places to grab something to eat or get a coffee, before or after your journey, even during if you’ve got a decent time between connections. There’s also a Sainsbury’s Local just across too.

I visited The Keith and Dufftown Railway for the first time a couple of years ago and was quite impressed by The Sidings Cafe at Dufftown Station. A large selection of homemade baked goods, and I enjoyed the homemade ploughman’s quiche with salad. Huge portions too!

I’d say that reinstating platform 8 would be a good shout, as well as installing a double crossover between platforms 6 and 7. Aberdeen has become a much busier station in the last couple of years (excluding covid related service reductions), with the increased number of Montrose and Inverurie...

There was a plan announced several years ago on the front page of the Dunoon Observer that there were plans to building line from Dunoon northwards along the shores of Loch Eck, taking the Rest and be Thankful and then connecting to the rest of the rail network. Redundant TGV sets were to used...

You are correct, there are no destination displays on any part of a ScotRail HST. I don’t know why I’m afraid. When they first came in the destinations were displayed on a sort of plastic sticker that stuck to the inside of the windows in the passenger saloon. But with time these weren’t changed...

The newest (or one of, I forget when it opened haha) Lidl’s in Aberdeen has self service checkouts! So handy if, as you say, just popping in for a handful of things. It is centrally located, and surrounded by student accommodation, so perhaps that’s why. Who knows, they might introduce them to...