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28th and 29th February are Wednesday and Thursday, not Thursday and Friday. Do all the signs have non-existent dates?

This is a railway forum, not a ferry or tourism one. There was a recent thread about rail improvements in Scotland since devolution, including many given the go-ahead since 2007...

None of the Borders line stations have recovered to the level of the first full year after opening (2016/17) with the exception of Shawfair, which with 44362 entries and exits is double what it had in 2016/17. However it is still the least used station on the line.

There were numerous warnings on Saturday about thundery downpours and torrential rain with potential disruption to services so timetables presumably amended to reflect that. I travelled from Tweedbank to Perth and back and none of the trains I was on encountered a single drop of rain, until...

Streetview image from the A7, April 2011 - Streetview image from the A7, August 2014 - 2014 picture shows the masonry bridge with a darker line of the old brick parapet and the contrasting yellow brick of the heightened and lengthened parapet. AFAIK this is the only original masonry...

The parapet on this overbridge on the Borders Railway was raised in case the line is ever electrified. The new parapet is less than ten years old but a large percentage of the bricks are already badly spalled. The same is happening on the outside of the parapets, from where any debris could...

The A6091 is only on the trackbed for 200m immediately to the east of the old station. The minor road to Newstead occupies the trackbed for 400m further east but there is very little traffic on it. It looks like there is room immediately to the north of the Dingleton Road bridge for a single...

Pre 2015 when I had business meetings to attend in Glasgow, Carstairs would have been the nearest and most cost-effective station from where I live in the central Borders, except the service was so poor and irregular. Instead I'd drive the 50 miles to Carluke and get the train from there. Post...

I was on a Perth train on Saturday. There are a couple of stretches of pile bases visible on the east side of the line near to the airport runway. I was on the same side (and it was getting dark) on the return so can't comment about the west side. I assume the reason for the lack of visible...

I very rarely had any reason to use the Waverley steps or the escalators until the Borders railway opened in 2015. I can't say I've really noticed them being out of order that often, although I usually use the steps anyway because it's quicker and I like the exercise. Today one of the six...

Shawfair - 27.6k for 21/22, a half hourly service on stike days.

Was it expected to remove cars from Sherrifhall? Borderers have always known how to avoid Sherrifhall, ie stay on the 'real' A7 (now A772) if going to Edinburgh or to the west bound city bypass, or use the A68 for Leith or the east bound bypass. I regularly take the train from Gala to Perth...

The A720 'tunnel' was built longer than necessary to allow for slip roads to be added to the Sherrifhall roundabout.

...And the 132KV continues under the trackbed of the down line of the Waverley route past Tweedbank Station. The Borders railway had to be shifted a couple of metres northwards from the old route to avoid the expense of moving the electric cable.

Conspicuous by their absence from appendix D are Moncrieffe Tunnel and the Tay viaduct in Perth.

Kerse Road, A905, Stirling? Built 1968, demolished 2018 according to this article - https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/below-ground-work-kerse-road-12805756

Well for a start they could run the trains into or out of a barriered platform at Waverley, instead of using platform 1 half the time which is a PITA to get to or from. A 4 car 158 would have done or better still go back to the half hour timetable with either 2 car 158s or 3 car 170s. It...

I've been on 12 Scotrail services so far this week, a return trip with a £12 club 50 card from Tweebank to Stranraer (4 services each way) and another £12 return trip Tweedbank to Perth (2 services each way). These were all off peak services. Three of them, all on the Borders railway, had...

Three viaducts local to me that haven't been mentioned yet, all long since closed. 1. Neithpath viaduct west of Peebles on the long since closed Caledonian line to Symington on the WCML. Curved skewed ashlar masonry arches with all of the stones being different shapes. Ornate parapets. 2...

One thing I don't recall noticing when I skimmed the report is why the train had to return to Stonehaven on the down line. Shortly after it had been brought to a stand by the GSMR call the whole network was FUBAR and nothing was moving south of Carmont or north of Stonehaven. Rather than wait...