Sounded like a good day in Glasgow
(Btw you have put down 313 a couple times, I doubt 313206 will get that far without third rail)
Bugger! I tried to proof read as I went through and had done a 314 as a 313 several times and managed to notice them, that one seemed to sneak through.
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Sounds like a great day! Good luck at Ben Nevis and I'm looking forward to the report.
Ben Nevis report: Nice and simple it took us 4hr 10 mins to climb from 0m to 1345m and 3hrs 50mins to come back down, nice and sunny while up there but as we started to come down the weather started to turn and our attention was distracted by the coast guard rescuing some one off the mountain (for the second year in a row!) Ended up in the Ben Nevis Inn and had a really nice meal of Chicken and Haggis in a whiskey and peppercorn sauce on a bed of creamy mash and green beans washed down with a nice pint of Trade Winds.
Glasgow Trip Day 2 – Thursday 15th September 2016
I have the alarm set for 7am this morning with just enough time to have a shower before heading down to breakfast, however I am up an hour earlier so decide to transfer my paper log into my database log and have a cup of coffee before heading down for breakfast. Breakfast was an all you can eat hot and cold buffet so after a bowl of cereal, bacon, sausage, egg, baked beans, mushrooms and fried bread washed down with a glass of orange and another coffee I am ready to start the day. So it is up to my room to prepare for the day ahead and within 15 minutes I’m heading out of the hotel for the 2-minute walk to Glasgow Central.
As I enter Glasgow Central and head up the escalator I wonder what today will have in store for me, will I get my final 314 unit? Should I just chase units or mix it with shack hunting? Should I concentrate on the 380’s? Or should I concentrate on the Yoker loop? So much to choose from. I initially decide to see what is in the station and my first sighting is a couple of 314 units but none of them the one I require, then I spot the distinctive shape of a 314 roof hiding behind the wall of platform 8 so I head round hoping and pleading for it to be the one…..and it was, there resplendent was my only remaining 314 for haulage working the 0827 service to Neilston, I board
314211 for a short trip out to Crosshill to clear my 314’s. At Crosshill I don’t have long to wait for dud 314203 to return me to Glasgow Central.
Seeing we are still in the rush hour I decide to forego going downstairs and doing the Yoker area and concentrate for a few hours on the 380 units heading out to Paisley Gilmour Street, having checked what is in I locate the next required departure and boarded
380006 to take me on the ten minute hop out to Paisley Gilmour Street a trip I have already done a few times in the past to a station that I personally think is one of the best kept stations around. At Paisley Gilmour Street we arrive on the island platform 2 which is ideal as the other side of the island platform will get me back to Glasgow where after a +13 a required
380116 arrives for the trip back to Glasgow Central….and they just keep rolling, as back at Glasgow Central it was only a +10 before I was sat on another required 380 in the form of 380007 to take me to Paisley Gilmour Street where with a +10 another required 380 appeared in the form of
380019 which takes me back to Glasgow Central and after a +15 I was off to Paisley Gilmour Street again on required
380015 and with a mad dash to the opposite platform with only a +3 at Paisley Gilmour Street I board required
380105 back to Glasgow Central.
At Glasgow Central there is only a +3 to get through two sets of barriers to pick up a required 380, but unfortunately for me it was not enough time as I had just got through the barriers and the train departed, however on the adjoining platform was the 1112 to Paisley Canal formed of required
380009, which I boarded and travelled to required shack of
Paisley Canal followed by a 20-minute walk across to Paisley Gilmour Street.
I now decide to do a bit of shack hunting and even employing this method it still doesn’t stop the units from rolling in as the train is a required
380018 which take me to new shack
Port Glasgow, where I cross to the opposite platform for a dud 380013 to take me to new shack
Bishopton. My next train is the one that I missed earlier on its return journey so boarded required
380021 to
Paisley St. James having seen a required unit heading towards Gourock at Bishopton I cross to the opposite platform and plan to get the next train towards Gourock and with the help of RTT I plan where I can pick the unit up form, I have now visited all three stations in Paisley.
At Paisley St. James I have a +12 to wait for the next train back towards Gourock, which was a very nice wait as the sun has decided to come out when dud 380015 arrives to take me to a new shack in the form of
Bogston where I finally pick up the unit I saw earlier and boarded required
380011 as far as Paisley Gilmour Street where I wait for the next service back to Glasgow and boarded dud 314213.
Back at Paisley Gilmour Street I head down to the lower level to spend some time on the Argyle and North Clyde lines for shack and unit bagging. With only a few minutes to wait required
334009 arrived to take me East to the new shack of
Rutherglen, on arriving here I remember passing through here in the past because my recollection of the station was that we were stood for about 10-minutes because the train crew were helping a person in a wheelchair who had gone on the stone section of the platform and had got stuck but I never set foot on the platform. Leaving the train here I only have a couple of minutes to wait for the arrival of required
320311 to take me straight through Glasgow and out the other side all the way to Westerton, where with a +3 I rush to the opposite platform and get required
318267 to dud station of Partick, where I swap over to the other set of this train which was also a required
318269 and head off to Anderston.
At Anderston I have a +21 to wait for a pair of required units and when it appears it is
318270 leading which I travel on as far as Partick where I transfer to
320310 for the final leg of this journey to required shack of
Drumchapel. Where a mad dash to the other platform with a +3 I was blessed with another required unit in the form of 318263 to the following station of
Westerton where I leave this train hoping that the train a few minutes behind was also going to be a requirement, I was not disappointed when required
320322 arrived to take me the short hop to Hyndland, here I cross leisurely to the opposite platform with a +6 and a needed
318260 arrives to take me to Westerton where I leave the train yet again and wait for the next train in either direction that would be useful and I do not have long to wait as the following train was also a required unit in the form of
318268 which takes me to a new shack of
Singer, where a crawl to the opposite platform would have been feasible with a +10 yet another required unit turns up and is another ex- London Midland train in the form of
320413 with dud 318257, so off course I board the 320 to take me to my next required shack of
Drumry.
At Drumry I have a 8-minute wait for my train to Dalmuir which is formed of two class 320 units with
320318 being a required unit to take me to Dalmuir, once there I get confused with the platform layouts as usual at this station, once I had sorted myself out and decided I would pick up the 1721 to Edinburgh I just had to wait to see if I would be lucky with this train too, and I was as it was formed of a pair of required 334 units so I boarded
334031 as far as Hyndland, which was its first stop and then I transferred to
334010 to take me to Partick.
This is where the fun began, we are in the middle of the evening rush hour and the trains are losing time and a pair of required 334’s in the form of 334005 and 334020 arrive to form the late running service to Milngavie (later found out the trains were running late due to trespass somewhere between Edinburgh and Glasgow – Ed.) and as I was about to board the service was announced as cancelled and all six coaches emptied and it was about three quarters full, and the train left Partick a few minutes later empty (to be spotted later on in the sidings at Hyndland for its back working– Ed.) luckily for the workers trying to get home on that train there was another Milngavie train only a few minutes behind……unfortunately for them it was only a three coach train! With the passengers already on the train and then two thirds of a full six coach train of passengers trying to get on this three coach train I thought was going to be impossible, but they did it although I did think they would have to get a shoe horn out to prise everyone in so that the doors could shut, needless to say I didn’t try and get on it and anyhow it was a dud unit for me. I wait for the late running 1737 to Helensburgh and am not disappointed when the train arrives it is formed of two units and one of them was a requirement so I boarded
334023 for a trip out to Hyndland where I have a +3 wait for the next required unit which is
334016 which I stay on until reaching the new shack of Scotstounhill where I disembark and cross to the other platform as I want to do some more shack hunting and with the added bonus of yet another new unit with 320303 for a short hop to new shack Jordanhill were it is only a +1 to get to the other platform for a late running required unit in
320307.
I stay on this train to
Clydebank and by this time I only need three stations over the two routes from Partick to Dalmuir so I am not bothered any more by the units and am concentrating on these three stations with Clydebank being the first. At Clydebank I have a +9 to wait for a dud 320319 to take me to
Garscadden with another +14 for the next train, which was dud 318253 to
Yoker before a further +9 for dud 320318 to take me back to Glasgow Central to complete my day.
Or so I thought!! On reaching Glasgow Central at 1925 I make my way upstairs and see standing there required 380110 to work the 1945 to Largs…I’ve been on the go near enough none stop since 0822, it’s been a long day I really need to stop, but I find myself climbing aboard required
380110 for a quick return trip to Paisley Gilmour Street as I cannot resist. At Paisley Gilmour Street I leave the train with every intention of heading back and calling it a day, however I board 380022 which takes me back to Glasgow Central but as I leave the train and head over to the barriers I noticed a needed
380008 due to depart in 14-minutes to Gourock…here we go again with a trip to Paisley Gilmour Street and within 5-minutes of arriving at Paisley Gilmour Street yet another required unit in the form of
380004 arrives to work the 2125 service to Ardrossan Harbour so I board the train to head to the new shack of
Milliken Park with a +5 for my train back towards Glasgow on dud 380110 but I am only going as far as Paisley Gilmour Street as a required 380020 should be working the 2200 to Gourock with a quick run out to Bishopton where there is under a ten minute wait for the train back to Glasgow, however while waiting at Paisley Gilmour Street the 2155 to Glasgow Central arrives and is formed of required
380103 and I think this is the end of my day and head back to Glasgow. 380020 will have to wait for another time and I cannot complain with the sort of day I have had.
Overall these last four days have been excellent with GWML day 1 resulting in 15 red pens and 1 new shack, GWML day 2 resulting in 12 red pens and 6 new shacks, Glasgow Day 1 resulting in 21 red pens and 10 new shacks and the best day by far Glasgow Day 2 resulting in 33 red pens and 16 new shacks. With a grand total of 81 red pens and 33 new shacks!! I’m already have an idea for a trip next week and the week after. Look out for these reports if they do happen. Thanks for reading.