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Seen this on facebook: A planning application to demolish the B-Listed building at the corner of Miller Street and Argyle Street has been submitted to Glasgow City Council. The building is within the Glasgow Central Conservation area. Student flats are to replace the demolished building http://bit.l...

Just passing along the expressway and can see smoke billowing out the pump house building (same as mentioned in the Daily Record link above)

Just a heads up guys, due to engineering works at Winchburgh tunnel, all trains from Glasgow Queen Street to Waverley Via Falkirk will terminate at Linlithgow replacement buses will be in operation, calling at Haymarket and Waverley. These works start tomorrow Saturday 13th June and will run for the...

55° 51′ 44.86″ N, 4° 15′ 13.35″ W

sandabound wrote:On a whim, a slice of poached haddock, 2 poached eggs on top, 2 nice slices of crusty beard & a cup of tea.

Crusty beard ?

From the Herald website today. Harry Potter steam train suspension revoked. Published 8th April 2015 Brian Donnelly Rail chiefs have lifted a ban on the operator of the steam train service famed as the backdrop in the Harry Potter film series. Network Rail put the suspension in place after one of We...

I see that hoarding has been put up around the ground floor, the building is to be converted into student accommodation.

Think it was previously used by the Cooperative Insurance, and possibly a Job Centre in the 1990s.

Bloody charity workers! Do they not keep office hours any more? Had some dipshit from the Red Cross at the door touting for donations earlier. 2 years ago on Boxing Day, I was sat down in my brothers front room, half way through dinner, when I noticed 2 faces peering & knocking on the window, f...

Read online (Clydebank post) about the demolition of the Flats & Maisonettes at Yoker Station, nothing about The Scottish Power site though.... Doubtful that planning permission would be granted for road access from the mill Road side, given its a blind summit going towards Glasgow Rd, and the b...

Is there a link for this?

dimairt wrote:There were conductors on the trams in Edinburgh yesterday.

Durachdan,

Eddy

They are on the trams everyday - no longer called conductors, Customer Service / Revenue Protection Officers is the new term

I thought the plan was to use rebuilt and re-engined Class 73s to haul the Deerstalker? It is the plan to use rebuilt re-engined 73s, but changes to Euro Emission laws and subsequent modifications required to the engines, the locos won't be available until after Serco take over looking like late 20...

There was a thatched pub in the Yoker area - located adjacent to the present day Lovat public house. It was known as Colin Robb's Inn after the proprietor, it lay derelict and was destroyed during the first night of the Clydebank blitz https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8313/8034154925_c92491460a_o.jpg ...

S.P in OS Terms can mean one of the following: SP Sewer Pipe SP Signal Post Sp Spire Sp Spreads SP Spur OS Map abbreviations I'd go with the sewer pipe option in this example, although it could possible by Signal post, but given no other railway signal posts are identified on the map posted - the se...

Not the time to speculating on rumours. The police have stated 6 killed, 5 females and one male.

Give their loved ones time to come to terms with what's happened.