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The old route of the A9 between the Carrbridge junction and Slochd Summit has been closed by the Highland Council after engineers determined it was at imminent risk of collapsing onto the Highland Mainline without warning! Supposedly the police sent full size articulated HGVs over it during a...

Seen this on STV News - https://news.stv.tv/east-central/rail-preferred-over-air-for-passengers-travelling-between-edinburgh-and-london-for-first-time On one hand quite an impressive stat given the summer of strikes, staffing issues and disruption on the East Coast Main Line. But perhaps also...

Question regarding the rural RETB routes, I've heard that in a previous signallers strike in the 1990s the Far North Lines and West Highlands Lines operated normally. What has changed this time, Network Rail saving money by not enabling that?

Tonight the Scotrail Edinburgh and Glasgow via Falkirk High service is running throughout the night! While realising that maintenance of the infrastructure has to be done sometime, it would be fantastic to see this happen at least late in the week and on Saturday nights into Sunday morning, and...

A good selection of photos of the new bridge that's going into the Highland Mainline for access to Lynebeg as part of the preparatory work for the A9 dualling Tomatin and Moy section the south of inverness. You can toggle back and fore through them from here...

Firstly don't blame me for the pun in the thread title - MT2G - Midnight Train to Georgemas is how a potential domestic Scottish Sleeper is titled in this rolling stock feasibility study for HiTrans. Not seen this document discussed before, though it appears to have been published last month...

Meetings between Scottish Ministers responsible for rural affairs / development and representatives of Scottish ski areas happen several times a year and out of one of these has come from a minister that weekend WHL services to Fort William once separated from Oban services will include an early...

In short can the frequency of the service to/from Fort William be increased to match the doubling from 3 to 6 Glasgow ScotRail services that Oban now has with the current infrastructure? Would an increased frequency North of Crianlarich need to run at different times to the Oban only services...

Network Rail have been carrying out work in recent days at the summit RETB mast (out of shot to left) at Glencoe Ski Area which covers the West Highland Line over Rannoch Moor and is the highest piece of national rail infrastructure in the UK. I want a shot of that wagon for some nifty cat...