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Not sure if on tour or lost - the Levenmouth branded 158 pulling into platform 6 in Inverness from a far north service!

Passed through Inverness station a few times over the past week and there seems to be noticeably more HSTs about than later last year. Including a 5 coach HST at Platform 3 which looked a snug fit from buffers to end of platform signal!

@LangsideLlama, I'd second getting in touch with your MSPs. May not always get the desired outcome, but I've found they will usually engage and listen, as I've engaged several Highlands & Island MSPs on a constituency matter. Stick at it, get the issue raised and politicians and rail people...

Just came across this video of the ongoing work to extend the Edinburgh Trams line to Leith / Newhaven. Much of the track is now down, including the tie into the existing in service tramway at the former York Place stop. That stop will be replaced by a new stop on the opposite site of the...

Former 314209 now 614209 hydrogen fuel cell test train has moved under hydrogen power for the first time. It had previously moved under its own power a few days earlier on battery power to test electrical systems.

Came across this documentary uploaded on Youtube last week about the story of the Advanced Passenger Train:

Just on a train from Alloa to Glasgow QS having changed in Stirling from the LNER Highland Chieftain, usually get this train as previously the few minutes earlier train from Aberdeen has been a 3 car 170 or 2 car 158 and absolutely rammed - today a five car HST pulled in to platform 3 while I...

The Met Office’s amber extreme heat warning has been extended further North and East, covering the entire borders area and up the Eastern side of Scotland, including Edinburgh, Fife, Perth and Dundee - the details can be read at www.metoffice.gov.uk until the warning period expires: Wonder...

Some more info and pictures from Network Rail: https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/aberdeen-inverness-rail-closure-enables-station-works The double tracking from Inverurie to Aberdeen, the creation of two new passing loops with the relocation of Forres station and now the Airport...

I've asked ScotRail on Twitter what the ETA for restoring the West Highland Line services as it has been severely impacted, with the last Southbound service from Fort William leaving before noon which is frankly a ridiculous situation to be in going into the summer holiday period. The middle of...

Caledonian Sleeper have just unveiled a new video advert and marketing slogan - "A unique way to travel". Not sure the slogan is very well thought through for the potential to ridicule it when problems occur?

Earlier this month we asked Caledonian Sleeper about a possible resumption of the carriage of day passengers on internal Scottish legs of the sleeper as was the case pre-covid, in particular on the West Highland Line where full journey’s were possible in both directions in the Sleeper’s seated...