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I vaguely recall in the late 90s being on a GNER HST from York to Dundee that was dragged by a 91 as far as Edinburgh before the front...

The 73s still have their drop draw hooks, so they should still be able to couple to an HST.

Scotrail yesterday were advertising ticket acceptance on the sleeper this morning for travel between Perth and Inverness, due to...

Is the speed limit still 20mph if an HST assists another HST from the front? If so, presumably it's even lower when pushing from the rear?

You jest (at least in part, I assume) but I did indeed find loose ear plugs in the “welcome bag” on my first trip on the Mk5s 18 months...

Direct from Wick to Carrbridge without passing through any other stations or junctions is an impressive feat.

I'm pretty sure the Royal Scotsman significantly overhangs P3 at Dundee. I remember arriving into P4 once and seeing it all the way back...

Why would Dundee need additional terminus capacity for LNER? And indeed, why would ScotRail running 9-car HSTs require an extension to...

“Only” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence!

Not with a '0' head code. That's loco(s) only. A pair of power cars coming back up on their own?

There’s also the morning Dundee-Aberdeen, which runs with a “2” head code for some reason. (A service that obviously couldn’t have...

The line re-opened this morning as planned. Of course, I was forgetting that. Seems all the more odd not to start/terminate at Dundee.

I assume the reason LNER and CrossCountry didn’t run north of Edinburgh (except for the XC Plymouth-Dundee) was because of the sheer...

You would struggle to get the 153 from the “south” platforms to the “north” platforms at Inverness in 7 minutes, especially when there’s...