Recent content by Strathclyder

Rather bold of him to come out of the woodwork now. The 'not given prior notice' bit is more than a bit rich, considering his near total radio silence for the past decade or so. The safety of the public matters far more than the bank balance of an absentee overseas landlord who likely will...

Well yeah, that was exactly my point, clumsily worded as it was. Of all the days it could've happened on is what I was was getting at.

Definitely a day to forget then!

Agreed. Really don't envy those on the ground dealing with this, nor the passengers caught up in the resulting bedlam trying to get in and out of Edinburgh. Least it wasn't the OHLE yet again!

Bold of the judge to assume he has 180 quid, never mind 180 grand!

If it hasn't already, it certainly will have by the time the works are finished and the infrastructure in/around the station is sorted out. August/September for the Ayr-Stranraer line seeing another passenger train is honestly being a tad generous, given how the dates for the completion of the...

Struggling to think of any in Strathclyde that really count here tbh. Chatelherault, Merryton & Larkhall may be the only ones that (in normal times) exceed two changes if you avoided Glasgow Central and changed at Motherwell. York - Edinburgh - Motherwell - Hamilton Central

It's not the brand of kool-aid I'd personally recommend!

So you want one of the most powerful nations on Earth to potentially, and voluntarily for a not-insignificant portion of the electorate, vote for a wannabe dictator and shell of a political party hell-bent on bringing the Handmaid's Tale to life and the outright shredding of democracy and...

Merely a typo, now corrected. Cheers for pointing it out to me.

Post of the week right here. Not much more I can add, being someone else who's had to deal with the DWP personally and as a close witnes to family members also having to go through the process and can also attest to how utterly demoralising it is. In all honesty, Sunak's 'sick-note culture'...

Hmmm, fair point well taken. Perhaps this is another potential off-topic deviation that requires it's own thread?

*shudder* I'd rather have a hernia at the base of my spine for a month than one more day of that nutbag back in charge, thanks. Every day she was in No.10, it was another chance for her to blow another multi-billion pound hole in the economy while spouting off one-liners like a short-circuiting...

A Provan Gas Works loco dating from 1946, built by Andrew Barclay in Kilmarnock, named Dougal, and built to a 2ft 6in gauge and 0-4-0 wheel arrangement, survives at the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway.

As do some 08s and a few of the outwardly similar 10s. The 50s would be within a shout here too I would have thought. But you're right, it's a topic best suited for it's own thread. Ah, Vulcan. Cracking wee thing imho (have always been a sucker for the less successful diesel types). A slightly...