One for the railway heads

[RDR]

Been off work for a bit Hols lieu days etc. Just passed Broomloan Road and noticed a pile of work going on behing the old flats on the rail line. Station maybe ? tobester get with the gen mate.

Was there not talk about reopening ibrox station, or as it will officially be called Castle Greyskull!!!!!


'we are now approaching castle greyskull, please mind the gap when alighting from this train'!!!!

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No, No, No.
How many times? Castle Greyskull was for the good guys.
A station at Ibrox Skeletor Mountain.

That was always noted as a major error, i think people thought greyskull was skeletors castle as it sounds evil

You should know better Tobester! OTIG

[the researcher]

Get your photographs of the units in Crimson and Cream while you can, all Scottish based trains including SPTE units will be getting painted in the new Saltire Livery that can be seen on some 170s and the matching station branding that has been applied to a few Cathcart Circle stations.

Nice to see something worth posting about, hasn't beeen the same since that bunch of splitters ran off!

i live opposite the ecml here in cupar fife and sometimes a spt unit goes past and they are crimson and cream
sometimes they are paired to a blue and white unit sometimes singly they come back this way heading to edinburgh sometimes they dont and can only assume they are split at dundee when a double unit and the spt sent to glasgow via perth
ive travelled on one of the crimson and cream trains a couple of times and they are much wiider than the blue trains we normally get through here and much faster and more comfortable as well cant understand why they send spt trains through here to fife though maybe they use them when they are short of trains?

[edward carolan]

SPT livery train southbound from Stirling Station @ 4:20pm last Thursday 27th

[Rucola]

I was getting off a train recently and heard some wee wimmin refer to the new ScotRail livery as "the spotty train".

From an aesthetic point of view, it's more successful than one would have dared hope, considering the design brief was probably "put a big fucking saltire on it, in case the name ScotRail and the explanation 'Scotland's Railway' directly underneath the name ScotRail aren't enough to remind people what country they're in."

[tobester]

I was getting off a train recently and heard some wee wimmin refer to the new ScotRail livery as "the spotty train".

From an aesthetic point of view, it's more successful than one would have dared hope, considering the design brief was probably "put a big fucking saltire on it, in case the name ScotRail and the explanation 'Scotland's Railway' directly underneath the name ScotRail aren't enough to remind people what country they're in."

Even the staff call it the spotty train, its like the suinty bridge, not its official name but bugger it.

The SPT colours are blood and custard

[Alycidon]

Not often do you see a photo of one of these here!!!

[BTJustice]

Shiny new trains;


New Class 380's by route9autos.co.uk, on Flickr


New Class 380's by route9autos.co.uk, on Flickr


New Class 380's by route9autos.co.uk, on Flickr

Pity (for me)the fence is so high.

Dave

[tobester]

Saw a few down at Corkerhill last week, look smart, shame theyre all breaking down

Sadly couldnt get any pics as i was getting signed off for corkerhill depot

[glasgowken]

Scanned from an old Trans Clyde newspaper, the new Argyle St station.

[BrigitDoon]

I've been keeping an eye on the Hengist project. This is a new-build Clan Class. They're now trying to raise the funds for the cylinder castings which will be machined in Springburn in due course.

http://72010-hengist.org/news.html

[Scotty100]

Imagine how powerful that engine must be to overcome the inertia and get this monster moving. I wonder how long it takes to stop the thing as well?
http://www.dump.com/2011/01/30/bnsf-fre ... ies-video/

[BrigitDoon]

One of those that arrives before it leaves and strands several towns at a time by cutting them off at their level crossings.

[Alycidon]

The two US locos are Dash-9s, Power output of each is 4,400bhp (3,280 kW) giving a continuous tractive effort of 105,640lbf (469.9kN) and a starting tractive effort of 142,000lbf (631.6kN). Compare that with a British class 66 which has a 3,300bhp (2,460 kW) power plant giving a continuous tractive effort of 269kN (58,500lbf) and a starting tractive effort of 409 kN (91,900 lbf), so it would take three class 66s to shift the same as two Dash 9s.

[aland]

I've been keeping an eye on the Hengist project. This is a new-build Clan Class. They're now trying to raise the funds for the cylinder castings which will be machined in Springburn in due course.

http://72010-hengist.org/news.html

aye patterns made by a SRPS member and going to be cast at Bo'ness. shows that traditional railway engineering survives in scotland

[cell]

Does anyone know anything about the work being carried out by Balfour Beatty on the connecting curve to the Helen St branch just before you get to Cardonald on the Glasgow-Paisley line? They seem to have cleared the old track bed and could be about to lay new track.