West Caoast main Line shut for another month.

[Broithe]

It was supposed to re-open in a couple of weeks, but it'll be March now.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-35342612

 

[Broithe]

Apologies for the random extra vowel in "Coast" - it's a Laois thing....

[Horsetan]

... it's a Laois thing....

 

"...you wouldn't understand...."

[Mayner]

Reminds me of when I was living in Scotland about 20 years ago, we had a heavy snow fall after Christmas and went out for a drive one as far as Killin out by Callander and home via Lough Tay and Perth. Beautiful cold sunny afternoon, cross-country skiers out in the hills by Lough Tay.

 

Snow was gone the following morning with a sudden thaw washed a viaduct on the Glasgow-Perth main line near Glen Eagles closing the line for the best part of 12 months

[Broithe]

Mmmm, this could have been rather more serious - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-35401921 .

[Noel]

Mmmm, this could have been rather more serious - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-35401921 .

 

Yikes! Uncomfortable reading. It doesn't bare thinking about the consequences of a HST derailing at speed near a river.

[Broithe]

Yikes! Uncomfortable reading. It doesn't bare thinking about the consequences of a HST derailing at speed near a river.

 

I suspect it was probably a Pendelino, but one imagines there was 'pressure' to keep things running...

[Broithe]

Even more uncomfortable reading - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-37975937 ...

[Mayner]

Even more uncomfortable reading - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-37975937 ...

 

Strikingly similar to the underlying cause of the Malahide Viaduct collapse. The engineers that had knowledge of the structure had either retired or had been made redundant when Network Rail was re-structured.