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Rain was very heavy over the weekend, driving conditions were shocking, coming back from Cinema, saw a car on it's roof, having obliterated a concrete trafic island and a lampost - bit off topic I know, but the route to Stirling isn't one that's prone to flooding, not many railways that are...

An interesting story for Astronomers and Physicists alike from the BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14405122

Astronomy is in an incredibly interesting subject, and has fascinated me for year, much like the railways. Has anyone here ever read Steven Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" fabulous book.

I've been the only passenger on a late night bus many a time in Edinburgh, mostly when I've been coming back from the cinema, which is now a thing of the past given that I've passed my driving test and have a car to use.

*puts on lab coat and geek glasses* It's not a sphere either, in fact, the Earth is best described as being an oblate spheroid, flatter at the poles and bulges slightly at the equator. *takes off geek glasses and lab coat*

I think that it is highly likely that we are not the only lifeform in this universe, it is a vast place, more vast than we could probably comprehend, as to whether these lifeforms have developed like ourselves (i.e. that we are intelligent thinking beings) is up for debate. Planets have been...

I've a keen interest in science, Physics and Astronomy particularly so, if I saw a man walking on water, I would not update my models, as a one-off does not constitute a scientific discovery. If that one man did it over and over, I would still not update my models. If a large number >1000...

Of all the gigs I have ever been too, I have never seen barriers anywhere except at the front, crowd surges are common place. Then again this may have something to do with the kind of bands that I go and see.

The reason that Hillsborough was such a tragedy was due to **** poor management by stewards and police not keeping track of the numbers in the Liverpool end. Also didn't help with Liverpool being given the smaller end of the ground. Just take a look at Germany, fans stand on a regular basis...

That would assume that it was travelling at a constant speed. There are a number of variables that would have to be considered.

In my opinion God does not exist and in my opinion I feel that religion is the base cause for most of the worlds problems. The whole idea of God is that it is merely an entity which people use to explain things that cannot be explained by current scientific knowledge. The idea that a child is...

I agree with this, as getting places electrified is expensive, and thus new stock would be required, which is yet more expense. With the money saved I wonder if it would be feasable to look into upgrading signaling on the ECML and WCML to allow 140mph running.

The more I think about it I realise I was talking rubbish, if it was heading to wards Craggie then it would be heading towards Waverly, it was heading away from Waverly and it took the tracks that the Shotts service takes when they pull into/out of Haymarket so it may well have been heading...

I saw a 322 passing Haymarket this morning at approx 8.45, heading towards North Berwick, I don't know if it was empty but might that have been the final working of a 322 here in Scotland?

Control of global population is required, there is no way that this planet can safely support nearly 7 billion people, and that figure is set to rise 9 billion in the next 40 years. I'm not racist but I feel that aid should not be given to developing countries so freely, they aren't going to...

I saw a rake of 3 158s together a while ago, but I haven't seen 3 carriages in a 158 up here at any point.

Any idea on timings for the unit that's coming up and the one that's going down?

First I remember must have been going on an InterCity train to Carlisle to see Family, train taken from Edinburgh (I think), I think it may have been an InterCity 125.

Oh dear oh dear, just when it was thought that the situation at Heart of Midlothian couldn't get any more bizarre, it has, unconfirmed reports that the current manager Jim Jeffries has been sacked by the owner, Vladimir Romanov.

There are many moments in my relatively short life that I would say that I'm proud of, but I still think that my proudest moment is yet to come.