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That water and seaweed looks bloody horrible - just as it should!!! Terrific modelling. Jim

During the 1960s in Scotland, BR created the Glasgow Parcels Depot in Salkeld Street, according to the carriage working books of the day, any train heading towards Glasgow Buchanan Street or Queen Street that had any parcels vans in the consist had them removed at Stirling or Perth, these were then combined to form a parcels train that would run via Coatbridge and Rutherglen to Shields Junction for reversal into the depot, The 1964 Carriage working book is fascinating and there are BGs being transferred from one service to another at almost every major station. The last real marshalling of any mail working was the West Coast Postal at Carstairs, where four vans were added from Aberdeen and a single BG added from Edinburgh, often hauled by a class 87, how is this for an over powered parcels service!! Jim

Ten Commandments plaster kit of a medium LNER pattern hut at Northbridge, Next: an observation car! Jim

Missing at least four expletives!

Used to get that bus to my work, service 42, Airdrie to Ayr!! (I only went as far as Mossend). Remarkably, for a service that was fairly long distance it kept very good time. Here is one I took a picture of in Edinburgh a couple of weeks ago Jim

6th June 1981, a mere 36 years ago!!

Crewe in the good old days, every platform end thronging with spotters, it was an open day at the works that day! Next: A double header with two different classes of diesels Jim

The wonderful Alloa layout, with footbridge access. Next - on the turntable Jim

26023 trundles a mineral train south from Mossend yard towards Motherwell while an unidentified class 20 and van pass over heading towards Holytown. Next - an short lived PTE livery Jim

Ohh please Airdrie win the playoff spot, the thought of going to Gayfield on a winter Saturday with the wind whipping in from the North Sea again is too much to bear, mind you I haven't been in Tutties Neuk for a long time!! Jim

This is Campbells Yard in Airdrie, around 206 steam locomotives and a few diesels met their end here. A train of 31 x 12T loaded mineral wagons loaded with scrap left the yard almost daily taking the metal to Clydesdale Steelworks. I never witnessed the operation at work but in such a cramped yard it seems impossible that this was achieved, one locomotive, 42264 is on record as having arrived at the yard at 10:00am on the 16th August 1966 and was completely cut by 4:15pm!! https://flic.kr/p/e1mNMg Jim

TBH the "old" Skodas were not common in Scotland, there were however loads of Ladas at one time, dirt cheap and awful, then they all disappeared in the 1990s as enterprising Russian trawlermen bought them to be stripped for spare parts or to be sold to Russian buyers. They appreciated the export cars built to better specification than the local versions! JIm

What do you call a skoda with a really long areal, A dodgem car. I once had a 16 valve Skoda - 4 in the engine and 12 in the radio

...how long before we see that in model form, come on someone must be dying to do it!!

That reminds me, Must go and wok the dog,

I was up in Edinburgh for a couple of days break and we booked a deal with Jury's Inn. What a perfect view from the room window. Tip for booking, ask for rooms 223, 224 or any of the equivalents on the upper floors. Thought we could use this as the start of a thread sharing similar hotels with particular rooms with a railway view. I was pleasantly surprised by the variety of locomotives and units that still work into Waverley, the wife wasn't too pleased with the number of photographs I took! Jim

Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

The Carpet Crawlers - Genesis

Could even have been work in Eglinton Street Tunnel that day, with sets working via a reversal at Shields Junction Jim

Four Sticks - Led Zeppelin

The approaches to Northbridge has one Next, an assymetric three way point Jim

Polmadie Open Day 80105 takes centre stage with EMU and class 37 to the left Next - A Foggy Day. Jim

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1368795/Athenas-iconic-Tennis-Girl-Fiona-Walker-revealed-35-years-on.html The lady in question!!!

I tossed one in the skip while clearing my late mothers house last month. Horrible picture!!!

This guy takes it a stage further!!