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i think network rail still use it as as store, signal and telegraph used to have the big shed next door (used to be salkend street parcels depot) before the yard got bought over for the M74 extension

thats the old central station signal box, made redundant a few years back with everything going to cowlairs. it used to control the paisley lines as far as cardonald, wcml as far as polmadie, paisley canal branch as well as central high level itself

crikey we were selling the ones we liberated from the 126dmu's for a tenner, had loads at one time but all sold now

mind a few years ago I was on a class 40 hauled railtour and for some reason we got held at argyle street for 30 minutes with the loco idling away. to say there was a smokescreen was an understatement. then of course when we pulled away with load 9 the clag was spectacular cue alarms going off at ar...

good photos dave and thankfully very few that I am in :) joys of being the marshal at the start ramp, my arse appeared all over the net

i worked with a lad that had that reg, was on a green golf gti that was in 99

there was plans for the pacers to come to scotland to work the paisley canal, east kilbrides and whifflets, thankfully after trials they refurbed some real DMU's class 101's

emu drags to killie?? for 334 work at brodies perhaps... can see me out in the fields for some napier thrash... my lordzzzz

dont get me started on riverside, what a blooming waste of money, spend half that on a building and the rest on building a live steam railway, you could restore near as dammit every kettle in scotland and build the blooming railway. blooming 'eck Bo'ness have built a 5 mile line with more covered an...

thought i'd told that story before :oops: as for anyone saying that she was clean of asbestos then utter bullcrap, she was unrefurbished so was full of it, jim mcwilliam of mc's confirmed this the 303 at bo'ness is runnable, the interior is okay, mechanically she is good. body is a bit rough but the...

I do remember the apprentices did a retrofit on one of them to the original blue livery and comfortable interior. It lay parked at the depot on the way to Paisley Canal for years but I think it was vandalised and never used for commuters. SPTE had taken over by then. God I hated the orange colour o...

commuted on coffins (air con emu's) for years and always had the cold, used to carry my key so i could open a window on a 334 coffin. do i miss the rancid things... nope did anyone else go to bo'ness yesterday for some real (apart from the 66) haulage, some good runs plus the class 20 on the 1830, 6...

exactly this thread has been most interesting, you forget about the travelling fair folk, can remember there was a yard in saltcoats that the fairground folk used when the shows were there. what interests me is more the rigs themselves as there is some stonking trucks and living vans, being a bit of...

err jim you are confused, slagging off both tractors and then spoons by calling then d**s. any 12cylinder has to be a type 4, evil empire just made V-forms because their lumps werent tough enough and I know what engine I'd rather work on, sulzer is easy, 2 valves per head, EE are 4 valves. plus a 6l...

Sulzer over evil empire anytime. okay you have to rate 12svt's as they are part of scotland's history but a 6LDA with load 6 and a semi dead spoon on the rear is only going to mean 1 thing.... thrash of the hellfire variety :D :D :D looking forward to having 038, a proper brummie sulzer but 27001 i...