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Mention of this in a previous post reminded me of a story a Driver told me of the last train to Gourock late one evening. This was one of the famous "Blue Trains" before they modified them so that you couldn't see the view ahead from the front coach. To prevent reflections from the lights of the pas...

I was gonna slag you all off for being train spotting geeky boys.... I am sure that James H will concur with me that Railway Enthusiasts (as we prefer to be known) do get an awful lot of unfair stick for our hobby. - I would like to therfore present the following case for the defence m'lud. Railway...

The proposals for developing Glasgow inner city rail lines, and the crossrail link in particular are nothing particularly new, even as the lines were being closed in the early 1960s the plans were formulated to re-open them. I found an article in an old "Modern Railways" magazine from the early 1970...

Hi all Seeing as how my website seems to be getting quoted frequently in the forum I thought that I better join up and be represented. So here I am Jim Howie, webmaster of Lowland Locomotives ( http://www.jhowie.f9.co.uk ) always on the scrounge for non-copyright material to add to the site, particu...