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I have passed through Dunkeld and Birnam station on the Highland main line recently, and wanted to ask a couple of questions about the way this station is signalled. there is a Home signal on the Up line (Southbound), but no subsidiary signal for the loop. i would assume this means that the...

I saw a comment of Facebook recently that St Enoch might have been under consideration for replacing Queen Street. There was a hand drawn map showing a flying junction at Bellgrove. Given the layout at St Enoch, and the curves and gradients on the line from Cowlairs, this seems to be very...

This post will not reveal anything About the outcome final episode, in case anyone reading hasn't seen it yet, but I do have a question about the train sequence. can anyone identify the station where this was filmed? The train was filmed leaving from and returning to the same platform, which...

I noticed a message on X advising that some services would be delayed by an hour due to the clocks going back this weekend. I had no idea that buses would sit for 1 hour in order to maintain schedule, as opposed to arriving 1 hour early. What happens in the spring when BST begins? Do any rail...

Moderator note - split from: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/fife-rail-electrification-decarbonisation.288646/ It's a shame we won't see Thornton Junction reinstated as part of this project, it would make a really useful interchange/parka and ride.

Can anyone say how long the Glenfarg line remained in use for potato traffic? I recall being on a bus tour in the summer of either 1970 or1971 and seeing a small shunting engine (like a class 03) near Milnathort.

Can anyone spot the mistake on this page?

I was returning today from Leuchars to Inverkeithing on the LNER using a Fife concessionary card. I produced when asked my return ticket and card, but the inspector then wanted to se the out ticket. Fortunately I had kept this, but on another day, I might well have thrown it away. Is it a...

I noticed that this service was sitting in the up passenger loop at Dalmeny this morning, and on checking Real Time Trains, found that this is a scheduled delay of 18 minutes to allow a following service to overtake. This seems to be an extraordinarily long time to hold a service and I was...

I was looking at some photographs of the 2014 resignaling at Ladybank (by Bill Robertson, on Flickr) and noticed his comment that the junction was now set for the main route being to Hilton Junction and Perth, and the branch line to Dundee. What was the reason for doing that, given that the...

Can anyone advise if it is allowed to travel in a first class compartment on Scot-rail -on a standard ticket- if the service is not Inter7city or Edinburgh to Glasgow? I am thinking in particular of the Edinburgh to Dundee service operated by Class 170 units.

I was browsing through one of the NLS collections showing lines around Cowdenbeath and Lumphinnans and noticed an interesting omission; the main line running north from Cowdenbeath New had a junction linking to the old line running towards Thornton Junction, built as part of the Forth Bridge...

Can someone explain why the signalling on the approach to Dundee Tay Bridge looks like this? I expect the theatre style boxes will show a platform number or route, but what do the white panels underneath these display? And why not use standard multiple aspect signals with feathers? I haven't...

I'm travelling to London. I usually depart from Edinburgh Waverley. On this occasion, it was cheaper to buy a ticket departing from Haymarket. My question is: can I board the train at Waverley (which is the second stop)? The ticket code is BPT.

i posted this after reading the announcement of the new Overground names. They didn't strike me as being particularly memorable, and I have seen a suggestion that it would have been better to go with O1, O2, etc. having said that, I am not resident in London or a regular visitor, so I would be...

I expect some posters may already have seen this, but for anyone else who may have missed it, here is a link; https://github.com/anisotropi4/kingfisher/blob/main/station.md The program shows the size of traffic flow from any UK station; just pick the station from the attached list and an image...

I have been trying to get hold of tour brochures and itineraries for Eastern Scottish multi-day tours in the early 1970s. I have been able to pick up the odd item here or there, but I would like to ask if anyone might have any advice on where to look for this sort of ephemera.

I came across this book online recently which lays out wha might be described as a 'scientific' or rational approach to designing Britain's railway network from scratch. Has anyone else come across it? Some parts are highly technical in nature, but there are some useful sections on British...

I came across this quote in the Kindle edition of Christian Woolmars book on British Rail, describing the launch of Network South-East; "The comedian Tony Hancock also featured in a later advertisement, rather oddly waiting for a train that he missed because he went to the loo." Wolmar...