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As a passenger on 'strathclyde electrics' services, i've never felt unsafe on DOO trains and the drivers and on-board ticket staff do a good job. I've never seen a station missed or doors not opened at a stop. I don't quite understand why a guard is needed to open the doors and quite how...

Great to see the 380's in the flesh. Much needed and it seems the mock-ups displayed at central a while back were pretty close to the real thing. A great photo website that the pics are on. Great laugh reading the aesthetics committee on here knocking every single detail of the design. As...

er.. for balloch, you could take luggage in the lift, get a low level to partick and easily get the balloch train there. The walk between queen street and central isn't that bad and neither is the bus service connecting the two stations. so provided information on connection between the...

Hi,I commute daily using strathclyde electric services and it was an eye opener seeing the class 380 mock-up as it uses seating far better than the current 334 units.The differences are tip up seats near the disabled toilet, all 2+2 seating, some seats are airline style back to back instead of...

hi, from seeing the mock-up it looked like theres more seating on the 380. think there's interior photos on the scotrail website. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- The clyde fastlink proposed BRT was meant to connect SECC, Glasgow Harbour, Govan, Braehead etc.. last quote I saw for...

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/transport-environment/glasgow-airport-rail-link-funding-axed-1.920511 Funding axed?

Hi, possibly as much as £8 million for a station tart up? hopefully common sense breaks out as that sounds mad for a two platform through station. Mind you, the Partick upgrade didn't exactly go to plan.

hi, that clears up my lack of knowledge on the 320's, I always wondered why they were just on the north clyde lines, always found the painted murals interesting on the cab ends as most of the places aren't on the line worked by the 320's. I can't help thinking that once A2B is complete that...

hi, I thought i saw a logo for east coast maybe 2 editions back in rail magazine. can't find it online though.

Edinburgh might be the capital, but the Glasgow conurbation is the bigger with more transport opportunities to outlying towns and it has to be assumed a bigger market. Edinburgh gets the tartan tat tourism, bankers and politicians

There's some talk of sticking the edinburgh trams on the waverley line! So anyone's guess there. Dunno how you schedule a tram with a 200mph HS train. I think there's buildings over the old line formation south of tweedbank or wherever it's meant to terminate and the connection back to...

The other point might be that the new Scotrail branding is meant to be long term and whilst the guidelines are comprehensive, they'll be needed a long time and rather than just come up with a spec for the forthcoming 380's, this has been thought about across every detail of the operation, can be...

I saw that virgin train tonight at Glasgow Central and wondered why the roof of it was so dirty, guess the pics explains why.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/transport/article6801505.ece and http://www.greyhounduk.com/ has more info,I think the coaches are scania, not sure on the body type.

sorry this is probably another daft question, but would there be an issue with 4 car emus such as the class 319's being transferred up as the current electric units are 3 car with a limited amount of the 380's going to be 4 car. I'm just thinking about platform space at queen st, even if new...

Hi again, I guess it just confirms the funding of the EGIP, but welcome news. To be fair, the herald broke the 'story' this morning and the bbc followed up on it. http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/transport/display.var.2525810.0.Greener_faster_rails_1bn_vision_for_the_future.php also, the evening...

hi, been a lurker for a while, just a question really, the 314's around glasgow on their introduction in the 80's had yellow slightly wrapping around their fronts which suited the shape as the attached grab from an old spte video shows, was the yellow area reduced when painted for livery reasons...