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It's a public Facebook group called "BR: The last living employees of British Rail and British Railways" so should be viewable if you are on FB.

Beattock, 18th May 1969. Driver killed and 22 passengers and staff injured. From The Railways Archive. www.railwaysarchive.co.uk Beattock collision

Green painted lever, I believe. Going back many years, Dalry in Ayrshire had a platform bell.

Cathcart ECR Cathcart

X10A Glasgow - Stirling via Aberfoyle is missing.

The LMS built second class stock for the North London Railway network well after grouping.

The V&A on the waterfront is worth a visit.

I may be wrong, but possibly the first use of plug doors in the UK was Class 303 unit 035, which had Dean plug doors as opposed to the Peters sliding doors as used on all the other 303 and 311. Apparently they weren't very reliable.

Cornton No 1 has them since being changed from AHB to MCB(OD).

I've always thought that the inclusion of the Great North of Scotland Railway in the LNER was a bit of a strange choice geographically as it was effectively isolated from the rest of the system. Historically the GNOSR and the Highland Railway were bitter enemies, but latterly had even got to the...

My avatar is fairly old - 1880!

The lunatics are having a great time on Facebook. Apparently the driver is being made a scapegoat...even when more than one person pointed out that RAIB have only published a finding that the 360 passed a red signal and didn't give a reason because they don't know yet, the rants continued! A...

A lesson might be not to let the prejudices of the CME affect the choice of engine. In retrospect the Sulzer 12LDA28C was not as reliable as the EE 16CSVT!

Stirling? It used to be that a morning Aberdeen to Glasgow and an evening Glasgow to Aberdeen didn't stop there. Now, apart from an evening Glasgow to Dundee which stops to pick up only, I think everything stops, even the sleeper.

Great article! Brings back many happy memories of childhood holidays "Doon the water".

It is an excellent article! 1782302400 I remember one summer Saturday being in Bo'ness Junction signal box when, instead of the expected Glasgow to Edinburgh push-pull, a Dunblane to Edinburgh was offered from Polmont - a 70mph DMU stopping at all stations. As the 101 rattled past Bo'ness out...

Although at most locations on the West Highland and Callander and Oban lines the token instruments were in the station building, most locations had the frame in a signal box on the platform. A few locations (Callander, Connel, Killin Junction, Balquhidder) had two signal boxes. The ground frame...

The report makes disturbing reading.

Alloa Swing Bridge was hit by river traffic three times.

Same in Aberdeen.