Peter Mugridge
Veteran Member
Probably the taxpayer.Thanks for the update. Who will ultimately be on the hook when the bill arrives for the large pile of no-longer usable scaffolding?
Probably the taxpayer.Thanks for the update. Who will ultimately be on the hook when the bill arrives for the large pile of no-longer usable scaffolding?
I couldn’t remember who ordered it put there in the first place, Council or NR.I would think that’ll be the Council Tax payers. Wouldn’t you?
It wouldn't surprise me if certain folk at South Ayrshire Council, Network Rail and ScotRail were hoping for that outcome!I wonder if this storm tonight will finish off the demolition work in one go...?
Understandable....but, given the wind direction, the remaining masonry and scaffolding would probably have come crashing down all over the platforms, canopy and tracks.It wouldn't surprise me if certain folk at South Ayrshire Council, Network Rail and ScotRail were hoping for that outcome!
...and they'd probably have it all cleared up and trains running normally again by the end of next week if that had happened.Understandable....but, given the wind direction, the remaining masonry and scaffolding would probably have come crashing down all over the platforms, canopy and tracks.
Hmm....there would be an awful lot of broken class and shattered cast iron to clear up!...and they'd probably have it all cleared up and trains running normally again by the end of next week if that had happened.
I suspect an insurer somewhere along the line.Who will ultimately be on the hook when the bill arrives for the large pile of no-longer usable scaffolding?
Not if the masonry smashed the tracks, ballast, and platform to hell from 4 storeys up. There's a reason they didn't just take a weekend possession and smash it down in the first place....and they'd probably have it all cleared up and trains running normally again by the end of next week if that had happened.
Platform 1 is quite restricted (with the rebuilding of the northbound side station underway). To be honest, I’d always thought they could have made Newton on Ayr the final stop as it would be less inconvenient?Is there any reason why the services from Ayr couldn't terminate at Troon
I think it was mentioned before that crossing over at Newton-on-Ayr is an issue.Platform 1 is quite restricted (with the rebuilding of the northbound side station underway). To be honest, I’d always thought they could have made Newton on Ayr the final stop as it would be less inconvenient?
To be honest, I’d always thought they could have made Newton on Ayr the final stop as it would be less inconvenient?
I think it was mentioned before that crossing over at Newton-on-Ayr is an issue.
Redesigning the electrical systems would be a rather large job, and worth decade's worth of scaffolding costs.One wonders if, given that an insurance company or several of them are now effectively bankrolling large bits of this, could they not do some kind of modification to how it isolated or sections to allow this move to be possible? Or perhaps it isn't worth the hassle
Ayr station and bus station could be created by 2028 (Image: South Ayrshire Council)
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The unit at Girvan was apparently an engine failure as you say.have posted this here, as was a result of fire
156495 which has been out of hours at Stranraer has today been lifted on to low loaders for return to Corkerhill
A tamper came in the opposite direction
156503 remains at Girvan, and maybe also be recovered in next few days. 156503 is a failure (think engine)
Thanks to a poster on Scot-rail group
Was going to mention that I had passed one vehicle of 503 on the back of a flatbed as it was parked in a layby on the M74 south of Beattock yesterday afternoon while headed home after collecting our new puppy. Once I recognized it (took me a second or two!), I immediately figured it had something to do with the Ayr blockade and that it had come from Girvan.Again thanks to Scot-rail group
156503 has been removed from Girvan and should now be back at Corkerhill