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News reports are appearing regarding a 3' 6" tall fortune teller who has absconded from prison while on remand. He is accused of robbing from his clients. Police have now appealed for information and have published a poster saying 'SMALL MEDIUM at LARGE'.

Polly, Nellie and Connie watch out, that diesel is coming after you!

You might find this thread on "Urban Glasgow" helpful https://urbanglasgow.co.uk/queen-street-station-t2757.html

Well done, I have seen one or two based on the 1980s configuration but I always thought that the old layout would be interesting. Jim

Looking really good. Re the old line to the power station there was a loop line behind the old "up" WCML platform which a tthe western end of Newton Station linked into a line that ran to Carmyle Junction and Clydesmill Power Station. I was on one of the last trains over that line when it was used for diversionary services in 1972 while they lowered the track through Cambuslang Station in preparation for the electrification. Curiously the power station is not shown on the 1:2500 map of the area, it is shown as one of those vague blank areas. Map here https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16&lat=55.8202&lon=-4.1371&layers=170&right=BingHyb The power station donated 0-4-0ST Clyde’s Mill Power Station No. 3 to the SRPS and it ran under it's own power to Falkirk Jim

Hard Lovin' Man - Deep Purple

Evidence of AC electrics running on the South SIde as requested http://www.scot-rail.co.uk/photo/scaled/343/ E3008 on driver training runs at Port Glasgow in June 1973, I have seen another one at Fort Matilda. The runs were between Shields Road and Weymss Bay or Greenock Ladyburn. REgarding the 6.25kV one of the early conversions to 25kV was the western flank of the Cathcart Circle to allow further trainng runs off the WCML to access Glasgow Central and Shields Depot, as the paved track at Eglinton Street Tunnel was not completed to the expect timescale. The "siding" that prototype E2001was placed on was an unconnected length of track at Coatbridge Sunnyside Staiton (not my photo) Jim

Chelsea Monday - Marillion

In the area shaded blue they have left out the exhaust system via the clack valve (silencer optional) and the bleed valve

Great Photo! At one time there was another goods station at Barrack Street (just to the south of the line and just behond High Street Signalbox, this was designated "Glasgow International Freight Terminal" for a while, remember passing the sign when travelling by train from my home in Airdrie to Glasgow Jim

No there is a question I would love to accurately answer! Most station closures can be hsitorically recorded to the day, thanks to the statutory processes, however for some reason establishing the day that the shutters were finally brought down at High Street Goods Station seems to be very difficult. Most web sites give it as "early 1980s" but I know that it outlasted Sighthill which closed in Februrary 1981 so it has to be sometime between 81 and 85. Edit - there is one photograph on Rail-Scot showing the main building being demolished in May 1985, this states that the station had been closed three years previously, that would point to 1982, can't get any more precise than that Jim

The introduction of 56s to the East of Scotland just missed the 1980s by about six months, I had a tip off that they had started working coal into Millerhill and visited the yard on 16th June 1990 and found 56029, 56074 and 56081 present, from then until they were withdrawn they were very common. Jim

China Clay and Timber wold not have been routed via Sighthill after the depot was rebuilt as it was essentially a sundries depot (later run by NCL). This traffic was a relatively modern flow and would have been routed via Mossend. Traditional trip freight in vans would have originated at Sighthill or High Street. Jim

The book to read is "British Railway Marshalling Yards" by Michael Rhodes, which details the rise and fall of the yards including Cadder (closed 1980). It is worth noting that Sighthill was extensively rebuilt between 1958 and 1961 to provide Glasgow with a modern goods depot, it lasted until 1981 when any remaining traffic was transferred to High Street. There was ane other mashalling yard at Robroyston, which closed in 1967 and was the Caledonian equivalant of the NB yards at Cadder. Jim

...or the famous Albion Rovers

The Xmas day Call the Midwife featured some incredibly bad railway shots. The cast were travelling from London to Mallaig, so the producers chose some shots that looked like it was the African Veldt then a GWR Prairie tank on some preserved line. Considering the hours of footage of the Jacobite that exist, why was this not used, it would have been far more authentic. Jim

Read me the bit again where the theiving little sod burns her mouth on my porridge

Apparently, it's no longer politically correct to direct a joke at any racial or ethnic minority, so here goes!: An Afghan, an Albanian, an Algerian, an American, an Andorran, an Angolan, an Antiguans, an Argentine, an Armenian, an Australian, an Austrian, an Azerbaijani, a Bahamian, a Bahraini, a Bangladeshi, a Barbadian, a Barbudans, a Batswanan, a Belarusian, a Belgian, a Belizean, a Beninese, a Bhutanese, a Bolivian, a Bosnian, a Brazilian, a Brit, a Bruneian, a Bulgarian, a Burkinabe, a Burmese, a Burundian, a Cambodian, a Cameroonian, a Canadian, a Cape Verdean, a Central African, a Chadian, a Chilean, a Chinese, a Colombian, a Comoran, a Congolese, a Costa Rican, a Croatian, a Cuban, a Cypriot, a Czech, a Dane, a Djibouti, a Dominican, a Dutchman, an East Timorese, an Ecuadorean, an Egyptian, an Emirian, an Equatorial Guinean, an Eritrean, an Estonian, an Ethiopian, a Fijian, a Filipino, a Finn, a Frenchman, a Gabonese, a Gambian, a Georgian, a German, a Ghanaian, a Greek, a Grenadian, a Guatemalan, a Guinea-Bissauan, a Guinean, a Guyanese, a Haitian, a Herzegovinian, a Honduran, a Hungarian, an I-Kiribati, an Icelander, an Indian, an Indonesian, an Iranian, an Iraqi, an Irishman, an Israeli, an Italian, an Ivorian, a Jamaican, a Japanese, a Jordanian, a Kazakhstani, a Kenyan, a Kittian and Nevisian, a Kuwaiti, a Kyrgyz, a Laotian, a Latvian, a Lebanese, a Liberian, a Libyan, a Liechtensteiner, a Lithuanian, a Luxembourger, a Macedonian, a Malagasy, a Malawian, a Malaysian, a Maldivan, a Malian, a Maltese, a Marshallese, a Mauritanian, a Mauritian, a Mexican, a Micronesian, a Moldovan, a Monacan, a Mongolian, a Moroccan, a Mosotho, a Motswana, a Mozambican, a Namibian, a Nauruan, a Nepalese, a New Zealander, a Nicaraguan, a Nigerian, a Nigerien, a North Korean, a Northern Irishman, a Norwegian, an Omani, a Pakistani, a Palauan, a Palestinian, a Panamanian, a Papua New Guinean, a Paraguayan, a Peruvian, a Pole, a Portuguese, a Qatari, a Romanian, a Russian, a Rwandan, a Saint Lucian, a Salvadoran, a Samoan, a San Marinese, a Sao Tomean, a Saudi, a Scot, a Senegalese, a Serbian, a Seychellois, a Sierra Leonean, a Singaporean, a Slovakian, a Slovenian, a Solomon Islander, a Somali, a South African, a South Korean, a Spaniard, a Sri Lankan, a Sudanese, a Surinamer, a Swazi, a Swede, a Swiss, a Syrian, a Taiwanese, a Tajik, a Tanzanian, a Togolese, a Tongan, a Trinidadian or Tobagonian, a Tunisian, a Turkish, a Tuvaluan, a Ugandan, a Ukrainian, a Uruguayan, a Uzbekistani, a Venezuelan, a Vietnamese, a Welshman, a Yemenite, a Zambian and a Zimbabwean all go to a nightclub. The doorman stops them and says, 'Sorry, I can't let you in without a Thai.'

A couple of shots of 33s well away from their traditional stomping grounds 33025 at Motherwell depot, I don't have a date for this unfortunately but it must have been around 1999/2000 as 33025 was one of three class 33 locomotives sent to Scotland on 1st October 1999. 33025 (grey/yellow) and 33030 (EWS livery) were allocated to Motherwell, and outbased at Aberdeen for local freight duties. 33019 (grey/yellow) was kept at Motherwell Depot as a source for spares. The Skirl of the Bagpipes returning south through Stirling on April 1st 1995 with 33109+33116 at the head. Back on page 3 of this thread there is a shot of 33109 and 33116 approaching Wigan NW heading north also in April 1995 with a 4TC in tow which I was surprised didn't warrent any discussion, this was the locos and stock heading for the G&SW line for filming of the first "Mission Impossible" film, which by the magic of CGI turned into the most implausable helicopter/train chase sequence in the Channel Tunnel 33012 leaving Crewe for Cardiff on 6th June 1981 Jim

...Could a TAD be Track Assembly Depot? Very plausable, the thought that popped intom my head when I read it was Tamper (something) Depot Jim

Yep - 030 alright, I had thought that it was involved in the crash in the tunnel near Bridgeton on 11/09/86 but that was 026 so I dont know how this damage was incurred. That photo was taken at Glasgow works where it was cut up by 10/05/1989. TS 75595 that was not damaged was later used in 303033 So 303015 MC Metals 26/09/1990 in blue/grey 303030 Scrapped Glasgow Works 303068 MC Metals 24/09/1990 Jim

As someone who has worked in a Quality Assurance role for most of my working life, this one really resonates https://despair.com/products/quality?_pos=2&_sid=38f496ef7&_ss=r

I knew a girl that could get felt for nothing! (the old ones are the best)

Colud they not just make the tower like the modern platform lights that hinge down at the bottom?

Hmmm - my initial confidence of the identity of these units has been lowered by the discovery of this photo pn FLlckr (copyright Andrew McConnell This appears to be the same formation taken from the other side with a B/G unit that would have been hidden behind the 37. Trouble is that I cannot see the high level grille that distinguished the 311 from the 303 so my initial identification would appear to be incorrect. My records show that the 303s that were scrapped around then were limited to the ones returned from loan in the Manchesterarea, but these came back north in the GMPTE livery, not Strathclyde Red, so I am at a loss to the ID of the units. Jim