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Indeed. I'll defer to others on here who will know far more about it than I do.

https://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/News/20-million-contract-to-reduce-train-times-15062018.htm Turns out there is some such work planned....

Isn't it possible to just keep the doors that are off the platform locked and tell people to move through the train to doors that will open? I may be wrong but I seem to recall the rear coach of the current southbound LNER HST service at Pitlochry is not accommodated.

Very well put. The argument about "40 year old trains" reminds me of a sketch from Only Fools and Horses when Trigger says his "….old broom as only had 17 new heads and 14 new handles". Time will tell of course, but common sense suggests that if the refurbs are done to a high quality, and proper...

Thank you very much for that info, I'll try and get down for a peek sometime soon.

Is there a schedule or some way to find out when the training trains pass through Pitlochry each day? I'd like to go and take a look. Apologies if this is a question with an obvious answer to those in the know but I'm new here so, well, don't know how these things work.

Thanks. Not read all of it, but most of it. It's quite refreshing, I've always been a closet trainspotter, or rail enthusiast.... Since reading this thread I've learned what a "shove duff" is, along with various other vernaculars :) The 47/7 plied through Stonehaven, me and my mate used to call...

I am new to here, I've been lurking for a few weeks and been fascinated / frustrated by some of the debate. I chose my first bedroom in Stonehaven in the mid 1970s because I could see the railway from it. I witnessed the disappearance of the Deltics to be replaced by the HST. One of the first...