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Traksy now shows Platforms 5&6. But I was shocked to see the track layout. Is it really correct that P1-6 can only be accessed by a single track through the North Calton tunnel? If so, then any train signalled into P6 from before Abbeyhill will lock out any despatch from P1-5. Surely there...

ScotRail has told The Scotsman its own investigation has found the cause to be “an electrical spike at the uncoupling point”. Does that make any sense? ASLEF is quoted as saying "following the investigation by ScotRail’s fleet engineers and a full explanation of what has happened, we are...

Is EDA (Edinburgh Airport) still a non-station as far as the rail system is concerned? I ask because I travel frequently via Edinburgh airport to London airports and want to use the rail ticket machine at Edinburgh airport to collect my rail tickets. I have time to spare at my departure...

Forgive me, a non-Yorkshire man, interfering, but isn't this because there are two Claytons in (old) Yorkshire and the name was to clarify that this one was in the West Riding, just like we would write "Richmond (Yorks)" nowadays, they would have written "Clayton (West)" to differentiate it from...

Or Alloa High and the other one which would be a reminder of a 1980s sitcom.

Yes, class 365. https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/new-scotrail-trains-to-ease-crush-on-edinburgh-glasgow-line-1-4728667 "The first of a fleet of stand-in trains has arrived in Scotland to help ease ScotRail’s carriage shortage crisis. It is due to be among ten electric trains as...

Electrifying the South Sub would achieve that. Trains could leave Waverley Eastbound and use the South Sub to turn and head west. (Newcastle works like that with its two Tyne bridges, allowing trains to depart in either direction and so effects turning of a train.) The South Sub would allow...

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/virgin-train-scare-as-door-opens-while-moving-on-edinburgh-trip-1-4715474 Presumably the staff door on the buffet car has the same central locking as the other doors, so how could this happen?

A train from Tweedbank to Fife via the South Sub would miss both Waverley and Haymarket.

Going a bit off-topic now, but for the best pointless online content, look at the "Key" on the National Rail live departures and arrivals: Key Delayed This service is delayed No report There is no report on the progress of this service yet Cancelled The service has been cancelled On time...

Arriving into Euston at 0730 after NR keeping us on the fast line and some 90mph running. Quite impressive. Lying in my stationary bed at Waverley I had thought today could be a write off. But well done NR and CS for a good recovery.

Just gone past Hest Bank at 10mph.

We're moving now! I take that as a good sign.

Lowland sleeper still sitting in Waverley P11 at 0007.

Indeed. And I would always be much happier drinking water from the tap, which will have been through a water treatment works no more than 24 hours previously, than risk drinking from a bottle that could have been on the shelf unrefrigerated for days or even weeks. And our water in Scotland...

Well, that depends on the part of the UK in which you live! :D

Backlog outside Berwick is not getting any shorter.

Quite a queue outside Berwick at 1645. Any idea why 1S16 has been held Northbound at Berwick for an hour (it's the London to Inverness HST Chieftain)?

No movement evident at 1600. Those in 1E14 have been in that train for four hours now. Must be getting cosy in there.

And Waverley is gummed up now with two Northbound trains waiting outside with no platforms available.