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Look familiar? This was a previous proposal from the 1980s as reported in Rail Magazine, it was crazy at that time as they actually wanted to close Central and Queen Street and route everything through the tunnel

The proposal for a tunnel from Cowlairs to Shields Junction appeared in Rail magazine back in the 1980s, it was hilarious back then as there was no plans for any electrification and the image of 156/158s accelerating away up the hill from a deep level station didn't bear thinking about. If a...

Coatbridge Central - ever since the platform level buildings were demolished and the street level station building sold off, effectively detaching it from the station it has been a total disgrace, the subway to access the southbound platform is a hell hole

These think tanks come around every now and again revisiting ideas that have been around since the 1970s but with no concept as to how these are going to be paid for, I doubt if I will see this in my lifetime. One part of the scheme that I think that Network Rail will have issues with is the...

Couple of other Scottish ones that are aspirations of the existing lines - Strathspey railway into Grantown of Spey (needs approximately £5 million) and The Scottish Industrial Railway Centre to buy the existing mothballed freight line and run from Patna to their old site at Dalmellington

On the last point, it is possible to go to Largs, pick up a local bus (very frequent) to Weymss Bay and return to Glasgow by that route

Good example of what you are looking for is the Southern entrance to (what is left of) Millerhill Yard, electrified, theoretically capable of any traffic but restricted to freight as the points are hand worked. I believe that the odd railtour has worked over the section with preparation, i.e...

1976 according to this site, which gives a very detailed description of the fish traffic on the ECML http://www.bloodandcustard.net/bluespot.html

If you were to attract the conveyance of fish to rail, you would have to provide a reasonably high speed service, just like before when the fish trains were given priority

If there was the will to ship the fish by rail, then I would think that the Tesco model would be more suitable, with the fish being packed into containers at Peterhead, transshipped to rail at Aberdeen then to a distribution site in the south.

I went on a few from Glasgow in the 1970s, you could usually work out a rough idea of the destination from the departure station (Queen Street or Central) and the journey time, destinations tended to be very predictable, Morcambe, Blackpool or Chester from Central and Inverness or York from...

I had many colour light signals, both LED and grain of wheat bulb on my last layout, after experimentation I used a transformer with a 9V output and with some additional resistance provided a nice intensity of light. These transformers can be salvaged form various old low voltage electrical...

To allow some relief on the ECML, it might be possible to reinstate four tracks from the old Monktonhall Junction (just to the east of the Esk Viaduct) then upgrade the Millerhill loop lines to allow passenger traffic in conjunction with the Portobello Junction upgrade. Stopping services form...

At one time I had done the entire Scottish Network, but the sods keep opening lines, closest that i haven't done is probably the Larkhall Branch, with the Anniesland branch and Cowlairs curve a close second/third, keep meaning to set aside a day and catch up with the bits and pieces that I have...

Correct, over to you

Services on the Glasgow/Edinburgh - Dundee/Aberdeen corridor(s) prior to 1967 were very much along pre-nationalisation lines, from Glasgow (Buchanan Street) services went to Dundee (originally Dundee West) and to Aberdeen via Forfar, all on ex LMS metals, services from Edinburgh ran up the coast...

Unit 385019 worked/will work the following 2Y60 0715 Glasgow Central to Edinburgh 1Y75 0858 Edinburgh to Glasgow Central 2Y52 1016 Glasgow Central to Edinburgh 1Y81 1157 Edinburgh to Glasgow Central 2Y44 1316 Glasgow Central to Edinburgh 1Y87 1457 Edinburgh to Glasgow Central 2Y50 1616 Glasgow...

Care to elaborate on what your "behavior" was, obviously they have approached you and taken your details, why?

The creek was the givaway for me, not many creeks in the UK, try this one

Queenborough?