And on this bombshell...
Scottish Wiring Progressometer - Post 4.0 (dated 17th September 2018)
Shotts (due March 2019)
All mileages taken from Holytown Jct (1m 24ch) to Midcalder Jct (23m 11ch).
New signalling system for the route tested & commissioned.
Route due to go live in mid-November.
Holytown Jct (1m 24ch) to Shotts (8m 30ch)
Fully wired (for certain on the Up side; not sure on the Down side), with the exception of the Carfin-Cleland Cutting.
Platforms are being extended at Carfin.
At Cleland, CCTV cameras & CIS are being installed.
At Hartwood Station (6m 62ch),
an entirely new DDA-compliant access route is being built, to allow removal of the old footbridge without the need for a replacement. CCTV/CIS improvements are also underway at the station.
The accommodation bridge at Hartwoodhill looks finished.
At Shotts station, Station Rd Bridge is being rebuilt, and platforms are being extended.
Shotts (8m 30ch) to Addiewell (16m 50ch)
Fully wired (for certain on the Up side; not sure on the Down side).
At Fauldhouse Station, CCTV and CIS screens are being installed/improved.
Breich Station
reopened after a 12-week closure. Platforms have been reprofiled, with access to the eastbound platform now coming from the north, avoiding the need for a new footbridge.
Addiewell Station's old footbridge has gone, and the New Footbridge almost complete. CIS screens and CCTV cameras are also being installed.
Addiewell (16m 50ch) to Midcalder Jct (23m 11ch)
Fully wired. Wires currently extend westwards from Addiewell towards Breich.
Edinburgh-Falkirk-Glasgow
All mileages taken from Queen Street High Level (0m 00ch) towards Haymarket (46m 02ch).
Electric services (Class 380s) running between Glasgow Queen Street High Level & Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High (21m 63ch) in regular service; due to switch to Class 385 operation in December '18.
Via Falkirk Grahamston - LIVE as of 1/5/18. This includes
- Greenhill Upper Jct to Greenhill Lower Jct;
- Greenhill Lower Jct to Polmont Jct via Falkirk Grahamston;
- Grangemouth Jct;
- The "Larbert Triangle" (Larbert Jct, Carmuirs West Jct, and Carmuirs East Jct).
Now signed off for passenger service; Class 365s in operation as of 23/6/18.
Wires up and live as far north as Larbert Jct (but no further); SPS-bearing portals extend a short way north from Larbert Jct., along with a short run of catenary wire.
Steelwork is also up in the Grangemouth Terminal area, however the extent of SPS & wiring there is not yet known.
Wires are now largely up in the vicinity of Fouldubs Jct, but work has yet to be completed with snagging etc.
Larbert - Stirling - Dunblane/Alloa
Alloa station now has contact & catenary wires installed; only the earth wire is up at Craigmill (nr Stirling).
Wires currently end short of the River Forth on the Kincardine Lines, just behind Stirling County RFC's grounds; a gap is present at Cambus Loop.
At Larbert, both main lines and the Down Passenger Loop are fully wired.
Earth wires now up around Plean; masts are fully bedanglied around the M9.
TTCs up to the north of Hope's Crossing (between Cowie & Bannockburn).
A gap of around 4 TTCs can be found around Cowie, awaiting works from Scottish Power to alter pylons.
Lots of masts (mostly single masts, but a few TTCs too plus a pair to bear a portal boom) now up to the south of Millhall Rd Footbridge, between Kerse Rd & the A91.
Kerse Rd bridge undergoing reconstruction; due to be completed in October 2018.
Within Stirling, many masts/TTCs/portals are now up.
- SPS up over bay platforms 7 & 8, affixed to a multi-track portal.
- From Stirling Middle SB to the platforms, a large number of TTCs and portal booms (all with SPS) have gone up.
- SPS (on TTCs) up over through platforms 6 & 9 (on the east side).
- SPS on single masts up and folded out of position by Platform 10 (on the eastern edge of the station).
Large number of masts (single masts, TTCs and a two-track portal) are up in the area around Stirling North Signal Box; a few piles remain unmasted at present.
Many masts up on both sides of the track around Cornton, just north of the diversion with the Kincardine Lines.
Through Bridge of Allan, all SPS is up, along with earth wires on both sides; the EW extends south to Stirling, again on both sides.
First pile in at the SW end of Dunblane. Concrete base with a cable embedded now in at the northern end of the station; possibly for a replacement signal?
Glossary of Terms
SPS - Small Part Steelwork; the "dangly bits" that hang off the masts e.g. registration arms.
TTC - Twin Track Cantilever; the "gallows" style masts with 2 sets of small part steelwork on it.
CIS - Customer Information Screen; the "dot matrix" displays shown on most modern stations.