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Alycidon wrote:According to a railway magazine the Museum is in the early stages of negotiations with Summerlee museum to take at least one of the two remaining class 311 coaches and restore for display, the comment from the museum (also as I commented earlier) is that there is nothing about the local train services, so this exhibit would correct that.
RDR wrote:Alycidon wrote:According to a railway magazine the Museum is in the early stages of negotiations with Summerlee museum to take at least one of the two remaining class 311 coaches and restore for display, the comment from the museum (also as I commented earlier) is that there is nothing about the local train services, so this exhibit would correct that.
My first reaction to that would be to prefer any such transfer to go to the Scottish Railway Museum at Bo'ness.
SRPS has far more experience to my mind in that area and more importantly far more interest in promoting the preservation of railway artifacts than the transport museum which seems to think of itself as an art exhibition rather than a museum of industrial heritage.
Alycidon wrote:RDR wrote:Alycidon wrote:According to a railway magazine the Museum is in the early stages of negotiations with Summerlee museum to take at least one of the two remaining class 311 coaches and restore for display, the comment from the museum (also as I commented earlier) is that there is nothing about the local train services, so this exhibit would correct that.
My first reaction to that would be to prefer any such transfer to go to the Scottish Railway Museum at Bo'ness.
SRPS has far more experience to my mind in that area and more importantly far more interest in promoting the preservation of railway artifacts than the transport museum which seems to think of itself as an art exhibition rather than a museum of industrial heritage.
Bo'ness dont want it, they have their own class 303, and have their hands full renovating that unit. Ever since the centre car was sold off (the bogies were wanted for a Pullman Car, the rest was scrap), the only possible outcome was a static exhibit, Summerlee do not have enough money to stop it rotting away, never mind restoring the remaining coaches so this is the best that can be expected.
aland wrote:lets be honest the Bo'ness 303 is preserved and cannot be scrapped, the summerlee 311 has been on borrowed time for years so if a driving car goes to riverside it will be better than nothing, instinct tells me that the centre car at summerlee will end up scrapped. I just hope the riverside car ends up under cover and at least sympathetically restored
if only they hadnt wasted so much of the 70 odd million on arty farty crap and built a live running line to the SEC it could have made for a great outstation of bo'ness, bring in guest running be it steam or diesel, mile or so of running line and a basic shed for servicing. can but dream
RDR wrote:Ironically there were tracks for at least part of the way between it and the SECC from the old docks.
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