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Kenneth Williams - Oh!!! Stop Messing about with the doors Regarding W.H. Auden, this one has done the rounds on Facebook and I absolutely love it! This is the Voyager crossing the Border Standing room only, unless you pre order Seating for the rich, corridors for the poor The shop has sold...

How do you calculate the volume of an Italian Meal with radius Z and thickness A? Pi.z.z.a

I went on one round the Western Mediterranean from Majorca for a week, the cruise itself was OK, but although all food was included all soft and alcoholic drinks were extra and compared with the cost of a beer on land was a bit expensive - your bags are usually checked going on tho the ship so...

Several old 2-Bils and 2 Hals were scrapped at McWilliams yard at Shettleston and the side contact Manchester Bury units were scrapped at MC Metals, Springburn

Network Rail Site has Track foundation cleaning in Carlisle over that weekend

In Scotland there was a great example at Whifflet (Caledonian) wherethere was an High Level Station (05/10/1964) an Island Platform on the CR Airdrie Branch and a Lower Station (Closed 05/11/1962) side platforms on the Motherwell to Perth Main Line. The only access to Whifflet Low Level station...

It is Wick, the first clue was one of the meanings of the word according to the dictionary Over to you

Too difficult? Single word, think candles!

Does this station absorb liquid from something and remove it?

Salwick

Is thee a marker post beyond the platform at Carstairs to tell the driver where to stop so that his last coach is far enough past signal MC416 for the Edinburgh loco to reverse on and couple up?

Or most likely that it was drawn by an architect or graphic designer with no knowledge of railway operation (or a German?)

Posted by Andrew Stephen on Facebook, again from the 1980s, trains to run in opposite direction to normal:D

About 300m is what I calculated it as well, to put that into context, it is about the same walking distance from the security area to the end of either of the piers at Glasgow Airport or walking the length of a Pendolino to get to the first class carriages and a moving walkway (airport style)...

Only comment I would have about that proposal is that by my calculations the gradient from the platform end to a tunnel mouth at St Rollox would be around 1:20 for 2 km, not impossible but a tough ask even for modern stock

A806 through Kirkintilloch and Lenzie follows the line of the Kirkintilloch Branch

Creagan and Connel Ferry Bridges on the Ballachulish Branch (although the Connel Bridge was once shared) Stonehouse Bypass (South Lanarkshire)

If you read the current report, one of the aims is to improve connectivity in the areas that are currently not well served by rail, the Merchant City and Gorbals are perfect example of areas where access to good rail services is currently poor, create the access and you will create demand

As I posted on the original thread you are revisiting a proposal made by the SPT back in the 1980s which never say the light of day. I have to ask the question - why go to the expense of digging a tunnel when there is a parallel rail route that could be developed? There seems to be a consensus...

I must admit to have in the past been very quick to dismiss any proposals for new deep level subway or heavy rail projects based on what I read about the building of the original system. Unlike the benign clay sub strata of London, tunnelers in Glasgow back then encountered some really...