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IIRC one of the early proposals for what is now known as the Dalmeny Chord was as a direct replacement for the existing line, removing the need to maintain Winchburgh Tunnel and the Almond Viaduct

I am almost certain that there were sections of the WCML around Lockerby that were cleared for 125 MPH use when Intercity Cross Country ran HSTs on that route - there were special yellow signs "HST 125" to indicate the differential between them and loco hauled services (I had one in my...

I had a Caravan at Portpatrick for several years so I know the place very well, the old line came into the town from the south and the station was at the back of the town still well above sea level, there was a branch for a few years down to the harbour that was very steeply graded, it was...

The topography of the area is not really apparent on Google Maps. West fro the junction, the Forth and Clyde Canal runs close to the line on the south side, then the line is in a rock cutting for a number of miles. This view on the Railscot site https://www.railscot.co.uk/img/50/998/ is taken...

The new series that is currently being digitised is even better, it will be the equivalent map scale for the years 1944-1967. Initially covering urban areas of Scotland, it has recently been extended to cover London and Littlehampton to Hastings on the South Coast.

Obvious one for me is Plains to the east of Airdrie, was left out of the A2B plan. Parkhead is one that has been planned for quite some time, it was first mooted when the Forge Shopping Centre was built, it still features on the local plan but with no firm timetable for building. IIRC they...

Dressing up maintenance and replacement of life expired equipment as "improvements"

If you want true value for money and were prepared to travel to New Cumnock by car, a Strathclyde Daytripper ticket is available at £22.50 for a full day unlimited travel on buses and trains for a family of four http://www.spt.co.uk/travelcards/day-tickets/ Map of availability...

I am from the same era (perhaps slightly later), I just remember steam services on the North Clyde from Coatdyke going into Glasgow (I would have been about 4:{) then the Blue trains taking over, DMUs to Saltcoats, initially from St Enoch, then from Central. My dad was an early petrol head so...

Would think that closure of the branch and digging out the trackbed to obtain the required clearances (slabbed track?) would be an option,

The East Kilbride Branch has a stiff gradient all the way from Thornliebank to Hairmyers, the gradient profile can be found by looking for file GS GR 7 AA1.tiff.tif on this page https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/signalling_diagrams_and_gradient. The restart from Clarkston is particularly...

If they were there the Glasgow Scrap Fairies have long disposed of them, if you go on to the Urban Glasgow site there are extensive discussions and photographs of the tunnels at Queen Street and Buchanan Street, couple of guys managed to get into Buchanan Street Tunnel, unfortunately there is...

The later map shows a much more extensive layout, https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16&lat=55.9498&lon=-3.1132&layers=170&right=BingHyb by this time the Lothian lines had been built to take traffic from the Millerhill direction up and over the ECML and into Leith docks (yes...

Williamwood it is - open floor as suggested

...and also the The IC4 inter-city train for Denmark which ended up giving no end of problems, but at least they made it into service, except for the one that was given as a free sample to Libya!!

So larger gasworks also had outgoing traffic in the form of Tar which was a by-product of the gas production. Some wagons had rectangular tanks and some were more like the normal cylindrical type tank wagons. Jim

My favorite was the Glasgow to Scarborough service, always threw up a variety of traction, first time I used it it was a 26 Glasgow to Edinburgh, 46 Edinburgh to York and 37 York to Scarborough. The return was a 31 Scarborough to York and a 40 throughout York to Glasgow!

Yes it is.

More clues - both lines are branches running to suburban terminal stations that were once through stations, but in both cases the through lines closed before Beeching. The electrification dates from May 1962