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I took a drive to Oban yesterday - just for a day out. The road runs close to the railway in several places and I noticed several mileposts which looked as if they'd had a recent coat of paint. I couldn't figure out where the mileages were worked out from until I got home and had a look at the...

I'm now 61 and as a child lived in the west of Glasgow. My local station was on the North Clyde lines so my first experience of a train was an electric "Blue Train". However, if we visited my aunts and uncles in Carnoustie and Aberdeen, or went on holiday down the Clyde coast, the trains were...

A "Prior Information Notice" was published yesterday on the Public Contracts Scotland web portal https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=OCT333240 "Scotrail requires a suitably qualified supplier who can develop a detailed engineering design and a supplier to...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-39204467 From BBC. Opposite to the norm?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-38769065

Phil Verster has quit. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-38687889

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-37506251 From BBC Scotland News. Wonder what the idea was?

How about this idea? http://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/News/Rail-sleeper-plan-between-Caithness-and-Edinburgh-17042016.htm From the Joan O'Groats Journal:

Bad parking at its worst! From the Shropshire Star. http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2016/02/12/parking-mad-driver-blocks-barrier-at-railway-station/

Just coming on to the BBC website - an Edinburgh - Milngavie train has hit a car near Uphall. One passenger injured.

From the Beeb: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-34463019

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/steam-trains-could-return-to-aberdeen-after-group-given-300000/ From the Aberdeen Evening Express: Good news and it will be good to have another working turntable in Scotland.

Seem on the BBC Scotland webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-33303715

Just found this on Youtube fZS5Udg4jkk :D Awesome!

Lest we forget, Friday 22nd May is the 100th anniversary of Britain's worst railway disaster. There is a tv programme "Britains deadliest rail disaster - Quintinshill" on BBC2 Scotland on Wednesday 20th May at 9pm and this is repeated on BBC4 on Thursday at 9pm.

I saw "Meld" running light engine through Stirling southbound not long ago. First time I've seen a live Deltic in years! I don't know if the clag will have cleared away yet! :D

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/hotel-owners-left-furious-after-5343543 From the Daily Record.

Tender for repair published on the Public Contracts Scotland portal. Estimated cost £400K!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-26784570

As Stirling has a blockade this weekend (two bridge replacements and junction works), is the Inverness portion of the sleeper diverted through Fife? I can't see it mentioned on National Rail Enquiries.