1840 | Great Western Railway Twyford to Reading opened. Stations on this section at: Reading. |
1849 | General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway West Street Junction (Govan and Polloc Railway) to Shields Junction No 1 (Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway) and General Terminus opened. Curve to Strathbungo Junction (Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway) opened. |
1880 | Dingwall and Skye Railway PS Carham grounds off the island of Raasay. |
1901 | West Highland Railway Mallaig Extension (West Highland Railway) Banavie Junction [2nd], Banavie Canal Bridge, Tomonie Signal Box, Glenfinnan, Lochailort, Arisaig, Mallaig signal boxes opened. Banavie Junction [1st] signal box and junction renamed Mallaig Junction. |
1953 | Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway Eglinton Slag Processing to Kilwinning East to Giffen (excluded) closed to freight. |
1962 | West Highland Railway Fire destroys the station building at Crianlarich [WHR]. The tearoom building and Crianlarich Shed survive. |
1970 | Taw Vale Railway and Dock Company Fremington Quay closed. |
1998 | ScotRail £125M orders placed to lease 40 Class 334 'Juniper' trains (to be built by GEC Alsthom, former Metro-Cammell Birmingham) from Forward Trust Rail and 9 Class 170s (Adtranz, Derby) from Porterbrook placed. |
1998 | Eddie Stobart
Direct Rail Services First Rail freight service for Eddie Stobart run by Direct Rail Services from DIRFT to Hunterston. |
2010 | North British Railway Two landslips at Grantshouse close the East Coast Main Line. Transport Secretary Lord Adonis orders an independent review of transport's response to severe winter weather (in England). |
Horwich Mogul 42910 photographed near Failford, South Ayrshire, on 30 March 1959 with a Kirkconnel - Ayr Harbour coal train. [Ref query 5738] G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow (1959) |
A Class 47 loco stabled near a junction in summer 1989 but where and what are those gantries for? |
February 2024 | Dunblane resignalling to allow southbound trains to depart from Platform 3 Highland networks closed by storm on 5 February East Kilbride carpark reduced for new station construction Addiewell temporarily closed for reconstruction Brodick ferries diverted to Troon by Ardrossan pier damage Seawall damage near Helmsdale |
January 2024 | 'The Hatch' café opens at Singer 'Reboot your Commute' advertising campaign Four loops taken out of use during snow on HML Storms Isha and Jocelyn led to network closures from 1900 on 21 and 23 January Storm Ingunn on 31 January closed West and North Highland routes |
December 2023 | Further strikes and other action by ASLEF at DfT train operators in first week of December Glasgow-Barrhead electric services begin Cathcart Circle and Shotts expresses restored all day East Linton station opens 'Polar Express' trains on the Edinburgh South Suburban First Boxing Day trains to Edinburgh since 1981 Storms Pia and Gerritt affect services |
November 2023 | RMT members vote to accept pay offer, but ASLEF announce a rolling programme of strikes in December at DfT operators. Waverley brought to a standstill for rest of day after power-surge fried signals on 2 November. Calls suspended at Altnabreac. New Sleeper lounge at Euston. New coffee-shop at Shettleston. |
October 2023 | Strikes at Anglo-Scottish operators by RMT on 1 October, ALEF on 4 October with ASLEF overtime ban on 2-6 October. Three weekends of train services suspended to north-east Scotland as a result of heavy rain, with Storm Babet bringing the heaviest to Scotland since 1891. HS2's Birmingham-Manchester leg cancelled. Start of six-month trial abolition of ScotRail peak fares. |
Grand Scottish Tour No 1 | [[images]] | 0 photos |
Work at Cowlairs | 10 photos | |
Class 318 Scotrail units 2017-2022 | [[images]] | 0 photos |
Largs to Ardeer and back | 34 photos | |
Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway | 15 photos | |
The Great Britain Railtour | 10 photos |
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