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As a penniless schoolboy in the 1970s I could only afford black and white film - Ilford HP4 from memory. I developed it myself. I now have hundreds of negatives which I am very gradually scanning into my PC.

I noticed a Yuotong on the 51 today.

Early 1970s. A school railway club trip which started at Queen Street behind a 40 on the Inverness sleeper, although we were in a Mk 1 TSO. It was late on in the year and I remember ice forming on the inside of the windows at one point...We arrived at Inverness at some ungodly hour in the...

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I was surprised to learn that the Subway was an early adopter of continuous welded rain, from about 1939-40.

Opened December 1896...but still the third oldest in the world after London (1863) and Budapest, which beat it by 6 months (May 1896).

As a kid I was fascinated to watch the body flexing as we rattled through the tunnels at a terrifying (okay, about 25mph!) speed. Of course, the coaches were already nearly 70 years old by then. We always called it the Subway, although Glasgow Corporation tried renaming it The Underground in...

Mansell composite wheels were still in use on LMS design 1st class sleeping cars until the 1970s, I believe.

1787916530 Mk 1s with dual braking and dual heating were common. Mk2s were I understand difficult to dual brake.

There was a fatality at Larbert earlier in the day. Caused a lot of disruption as all trains between Stirling and Larbert were cancelled.

As per the thread title. I, a born and bred Glaswegian never called it anything other than the Subway, even when the trains were orange. However does anyone call it the Clockwork Orange nowadays?

I seem to remember that around that time there was a promotional £5 Glasgow - London return ticket.

Yes, as soon as you reached the regional boundary (Marshall Meadows on the ECML and 7 miles 78 chains on the WCML) the speed limit immediately changed by 15mph!

Image from the Glasgow Herald at the time. Location is the Clyde just upriver from Central Station. Google "Electric locomotive on Clyde". Moderator note - image shows a large model of a Class 87 floating on the Clyde

"Isolated Distants" were regarded by the LMS S&T Engineer, A F Bound, as an important marker and he introduced the practice of painting the (tubular) post in alternate 2 foot wide black and white bands. This applied to both semaphore and colour light signals.

Distance isn't everything. On an official visit to Dalmuir Park signal box during the summer of 1976 the switched diamonds, which were literally outside the box, started to jam because of the heat. It took the combined efforts of the signalman, the District Inspector, me, copious buckets of...

There used to be a Glasgow destination "Normal School". It was a teacher training centre. As previously mentioned, Shetland has two stops called "Tw@tt Road End".

Saw a Hillman Husky this afternoon - the Imp derived van. I think it was an F registration so an early one.

Looking at my local crossing (Cornton 1) it shows Edinburgh to Dunblane trains passing through Causewayhead Junction. Which isn't on that line...(it's on the Alloa line)

Meantime, on the Caledonian Sleeper thread... "Dalwhinnie Signaller reports, mains power failure affecting signalling at Dalwhinnie area of control. Unable to run to or from Blair Atholl and Kingussie." Highland Main Line closed due to power failure at isolated traditional box!