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I'm going at the end of the week (twice, oddly enough!). Be a shame not to have such free access and loads of people when you usually got the place to yourself (or with a few other kindred spirits/graffiti artists/porn film makes!) but I guess it would have been an H&S/insurance nightmare withou...

Cinemas we have on our database for Baillieston - never seen a single pic of the only one we know to have existed! Name Address Town Architect Status Pavilion Picture House Main Street Baillieston Thomas Martin Demolished. Opened 1913, seating 560. Rio Main Street/Muirside Rd Baillieston McNair &...

Cracker, Toby - I only wish I wasn't so young that I didn't take in more on my Butlins trips in the late 70s and early 80s. Then again, I saw these things through a kid's eyes, so there was probably more magic in my perceptions than in reality!

This colour pic purports to be 1962 as well, seems to show mostly blue with a thin yellow stripe:

http://www.eastbank.org.uk/images/Units/UK0101.jpg

This has been the slowest redevelopment I've seen in years....

I suppose it does at least have a new roof now - compared to how it looked after the winter storms a few years ago, it is at least an improvement!

Knew someone would film them and have it on YT before the week is out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6nI5XLLAiM

Yeah, I think they were diverting via Mount Florida. Doesn't happen very often at all, odd to see the big trains winding round the Cathcart Circle.

I see the there are various engineering works going on this weekend in the Rutherglen/Cambuslang area. Virgin are saying their trains are running but with a slight diversion - anyone know what these will be? Are they going through the Cathcart Circle?

It wasn't bad, but I stumbled on this 1972 episode of BBC's Horizon series which had actual eyewitnesses and a look inside Quintinshill Signal Box, which still existed at the time - from around 2 mins in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcgX3cyE5vc (Bugger it, tried 8 times to remember how the YT em...

I'm just heading in there to book some tickets myself. Did a Google Image search to see if it was as rubbish as I remember...

It's absolutely tiny - literally a small corner of the ticket and travel centre next to the Gordon St entrance. I used the Euston one a couple of years ago (since refurbished) and it was OK, but I had just come off the Sleeper and only had a couple of cans of juice. It, at least, has showers and oth...

Ooh, that's my night shift viewing sorted!

Doesn't seem entirely finalised in terms of what will happen to the 15-min frequency, but the Dalmeny reverse thing seems to be a definite according to all reports.

Shame the Dalmeny chord hasn't been built, could have done away with the reversing nonsense and made it a bit less painful.

Diverted to Dalmeny, where they'll reverse direction before heading into Edinburgh.

I thought the plan was to use rebuilt and re-engined Class 73s to haul the Deerstalker?