Scottish Infrastructure

[Inanimate Carbon Rod]

Dont get why we need tunnels to backwaters like Fife from the Edinburgh tory heartlands. What we really need is a hyperloop between Dundee and the Greater Glasgow area to unite Scotland’s two greatest cities. 

[welshbairn]

Took me 4 3/4 hours to get from Inverness to Fraserburgh by public transport a couple of years back, game was postponed at 2.55 due to the wind. Next time I drove and it took me around 2 hours.

[Melanius Mullarkey]

5 hours ago, jamamafegan said:

 

I was really surprised to learn that Peterhead is not served by a railway. Crazy. It would be great if there was a line going to Fraserburgh and along the coast towards Banff, Buckie and joining the existing line at Elgin.

 

If you can put with the fact that Rob Bell is such an annoying twat and should be called Nob Bellend, then the Walking Britain's Lost Railways on Channel 5 (Series 1 Episode 1) will be of interest. 

From Wikipedia:

Nob walks the former line from Elgin to Portsoy, the Moray line which had originally served both the fishing and whisky industries. The line was decommissioned in the 1960s and he visits the former station at Elgin which was built in 1858[7] and visits Lossiemouth (codhead scum) on the Scottish Riviera (take note West Coast Greenock fans) and discovers about its former history as a whisky and fishing port.[8] Bellend Rob goes onto kayak through Bow Fiddle Rock near Portknockie; wonder at the Spey Bridge in Newtonmore and the several glorious viaducts in Cullen; visit the Glenglassaugh distillery and view a boat race in Portsoy. The fucking twat.

[vikingTON]

4 hours ago, Sherrif John Bunnell said:

I'd like to see more commuter rail on existing lines. In Inverness the Highland Main Line passes Balloch, Culloden, Smithton, Westhill, Cradlehall and the UHI and even one station on that side of town would take a huge amount of traffic off the roads. Aberdeen would surely benefit from more local stations as well.

Diddy settlements like Inverness, Aberdeen, Perth etc. only need one station. 

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, virginton said:

Diddy settlements like Inverness, Aberdeen, Perth etc. only need one station. 

It’s utterly appalling that trains have to stop in Greenock you soap dodging cnuts.

[Highland Capital]

Do any other Highland-based posters remember some talk of Clachnaharry Station being reopened?  I remember hearing about it a few years ago but I don't know how viable it'd be, probably not very.

Edited January 14, 2021 by Highland Capital

[RiffRaff]

It’s utterly appalling that trains have to stop in Greenock you soap dodging cnuts.

Does Greenock not have about 8 stations between the two lines that go through it?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, RiffRaff said:

17 minutes ago, Yflab said:

It’s utterly appalling that trains have to stop in Greenock you soap dodging cnuts.

Does Greenock not have about 8 stations between the two lines that go through it?

I believe that’s to allow normal humans to escape the stench. 

[Ray Patterson]

2 hours ago, Cyclizine said:

The old station at Kittybrewster is mostly still there, part of the council depot now. SHMU radio has tho old Woodside station. You'd think stations in suburbs like Kittybrewster, Woodside, Bucksburn, Ferryhill, Torry, Cove Bay, Newtonhill would be relatively easy, the line is already there.

It would be great to see the line north to Fraserburgh being reinstated. Not sure how much of the old track bed is still there though.

As someone who used to live 5 minutes from Kittybrewster, it was so annoying have to walk 30mins or get the bus into the city centre to catch a train anywhere, when there's a perfect train station just there.

[Academically Deficient]

2 hours ago, RiffRaff said:

2 hours ago, Yflab said:

It’s utterly appalling that trains have to stop in Greenock you soap dodging cnuts.

Does Greenock not have about 8 stations between the two lines that go through it?

This just in from our pedantry correspondent.

*nasal voice*

That is a most interesting question. The answer depends upon whether one considers Fort Matilda to be in Gourock or Greenock. A secondary consideration is whether IBM halt is, in a meaningful sense, a conventional service stop.

 

[RiffRaff]

This just in from our pedantry correspondent.
*nasal voice*
That is a most interesting question. The answer depends upon whether one considers Fort Matilda to be in Gourock or Greenock. A secondary consideration is whether IBM halt is, in a meaningful sense, a conventional service stop.
 

And is Branchton in Greenock or Port Glasgow?

[jamamafegan]

Diddy settlements like Inverness, Aberdeen, Perth etc. only need one station. 

Perth station is actually quite grand and would be the third best station in the country (after Glasgow Central and Waverley) if it was given a good scrub and a lick of paint. At present it’s a dusty, pigeon infested shitehole.

[Le Tout P'ti FC]

Perth station is actually quite grand and would be the third best station in the country (after Glasgow Central and Waverley) if it was given a good scrub and a lick of paint. At present it’s a dusty, pigeon infested shitehole.

Wemyss Bay's big brother wants a word with you in the car park.

[Le Tout P'ti FC]

Adding a picture of the glorious Wemyss Bay station. (Not taken from a train.)

[Newbornbairn]

Wemyss Bay Station is quite a surprise if you go in

 

[tamthebam]

In regard to this proposed tunnel they just built a road tunnel under the North Sea in the Faroes for a bunch of puffin shaggers whose population is about that of Stirling.

[vikingTON]

3 hours ago, Academically Deficient said:

This just in from our pedantry correspondent.

*nasal voice*

That is a most interesting question. The answer depends upon whether one considers Fort Matilda to be in Gourock or Greenock. A secondary consideration is whether IBM halt is, in a meaningful sense, a conventional service stop.

 

Fort Matilda is part of Greenock, as is West, Central, Cartsdyke, Bogston, Whinhill, Drumfrochar and Branchton. As are Port Glasgow, Woodhall, Gourock, Inverkip and Wemyss Bay.

2 minutes ago, tamthebam said:

In regard to this proposed tunnel they just built a road tunnel under the North Sea in the Faroes for a bunch of puffin shaggers whose population is about that of Stirling.

They wouldn't have bothered if it took them to Kirkcaldy though.

[Dunning1874]

2 hours ago, RiffRaff said:

 

And is Branchton in Greenock or Port Glasgow?

 

I assume you mean Bogston, as Branchton is firmly in Greenock. Although Bogston is also on the Greenock side of the boundary and to answer the earlier post there's no debate to be had about Fort Matilda - comfortably in Greenock.

IBM Halt is no longer in use leaving 8 in Greenock itself, but in any case the learned among us will appreciate that the whole metropolis of Inverclyde is effectively Greater Greenock anyway, so adding the rest takes us to 13. It's a travesty that the third line was taken away and we don't have a rail link via Kilmacolm & Bridge of Weir - get it reopened and we can have another half dozen stations.

It's disconcerting to be in a so-called city such as Aberdeen when you're accustomed to never being more than a 20 minute walk from a station. Having to get a fucking bus around the place from the one train station when you're used to a far more efficient, comfortable and frequent mode of transport in easy walking distance wherever you are.

Anywhere with fewer than five train stations should have city status revoked. Anywhere with fewer than two is a hamlet. Tyndrum > Aberdeen & Perth

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2 minutes ago, virginton said:

They wouldn't have bothered if it took them to Kirkcaldy though.

They would have if it got them out of Kirkcaldy as fast as possible.

[Academically Deficient]

7 minutes ago, virginton said:

Fort Matilda is part of Greenock, as is West, Central, Cartsdyke, Bogston, Whinhill, Drumfrochar and Branchton. As are Port Glasgow, Woodhall, Gourock, Inverkip and Wemyss Bay.

They wouldn't have bothered if it took them to Kirkcaldy though.

I dont think this is like Bismarck claiming Schleswig-Holstein. You can keep them. No worries.