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Day 1

Inverness
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158733 and 158740 in Station, 08308 in station with rake from cancelled sleeper
43107-rake-43108 -0755 Inverness-London KX(travelled on)
66105, 37411, 67007 and 66097 in Millburn Yard.

158732 passed at Bruar
158735 and 170413 seen at Perth
156's 439/449 at Dunblane for an Edinburgh bound train

Stirling
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Arrival 20 mins late due to extreme (ha) weather conditions.
67005 94502/8/9/15 seen passing on extremely late Walsall-Aberdeen Express Parcels
156437/158731 seen passing on northbound Dunblane Service
170471/156510 arrives from Glasgow- Who said these couldnt couple?!?
170419 and 158720 passed north while 158720+1587** took us south (30 mins late) to Queen Street.

170416 was seen in Bishopbriggs where we stopped. 170471 and 156510 following on the 1118 from Stirling was also an all stops past Stirling. Why people werent advised to change and us run non-stop into Queen Street i don't know. Madness, absolute madness. We never changed as we were trying to catch the later cancelled 1148 off Central

Glasgow Central
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156511 used on the 1203 to Carlisle off Glasgow Central- Departure at 1218, 15 late!
314208, 156494, 318266, 156457, 334006, 318256, 156432 all around Central somewhere...
91015-12410-12515-12409-12305-10331-11201-11216-11209-82214 in Platform 1
86214-rake(see Carlisle below)-90003 (dead)

Barrhead
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156436
156458
156505
Here we were held for a good 20-30 minutes waiting for northbound units to pass ie come off the stretch of single track line. Not impressive in the least.

Dumfries
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66*** north of Dumfries on MGR empties around 1415, help please?

Gretna
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156503

Kingmoor Yard
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66212, 66214, 66112, 56112, 08954.
There was a 92 on a rake of intermodal wagons inc. containers. Did anyone happened to see it and/or get its number?

Kingmoor Depot
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20301, 20902, 20306, 20313, 20303, 37610

Carlisle Station
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47741-1256-6052-5958-6178-5925-5981-9505 on the 1430ish train to Edinburgh Waverly

In the centre roads were;
47791/47851 and 87011

142065, 156488, 156490 and 153316 on other minor passenger trains

In the stabling roads were;
82141-90006 can anyone give details regarding th rest of the coaches in this rake?
82119-11072-10201-12103-12004-12037-12057-12112-90046 shorter than other rakes isnt it? Definately shorter than 90006's rake.

37668 and 47289 were in the southern most sidings.

90029-94303-94499-80351-80432-rake (help please?!?) arrived from presumably Glasgow- details anyone?

82114-11039-11076-11081-10209-12040-12038-12117-12157-90003 arrived from Glasgow ex-1330?
47791 replaced the 90003 and left with mega thrash leaving Carlisle deviod of both enthusiasts and passengers!

47814-1209-6000-6022-5962-6182-6041-9521 arriving from ? Was due to work 1732 to Brum New Street.

86207-9500-5906-5789-5827-5824-1221 arrived from Glasgow, 47851 was attached and made yet another spirited departure.

66012 passed south on an Enterprise and 60044 passed north on a rake of stone hoppers.

47773 arrived before 60044 with;
12042-12044-12133-12073-12161-10260-11064-11080-82124. 87011 swapped with 773 which went light to ML.

Kingmoor Depot
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20903, 20302, 20135, 20175, 20113, 20094. There were two 37/6s there, did anyone get the other?

Carstairs
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47790 on standby duties- all three ML 47s in one day! Woo hoo! Motherwell
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47741 had just passed through before us to ML.
82206-12535-12465-91129 Kings Cross bound.
Here were joined by two others.

Polmadie
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90040, 90227 and 86214.
There was a whole bundle of stuff there including 2 Voyagers. Details of these would be most welcomed.

Glasgow Central
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334035, 334006
43184-44053-42363-42159-42160-42161-40430-41115-43161 was on the Central- Waverly ex-Penzance train.

Glasgow Central-SECC
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303020

End of Day 1

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Day 2

Model Rail Scotland

Overall impression of the show was pretty good. Especially of the layout Blair Atholl towards Drumocheter. What a Layout! Having spent most of the day operating this layout we didnt see much else but do we care- no! We were able to operate the best layout there. After winning three cups- the Hornby glass trophy for overall best layout, the Scotrail cup for best scottish based layout and another for the best building- the Blair Atholl town hall. Highland Rail would like to thank Ian McCreadie and all there over the weekend of February 22nd-23rd. The site is available at: http://www.blairatholl-drumochter.co.uk

Glasgow QS
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After waiting for ages for a certain person, you know who you are!, we went to GQS with a KFC. No Mings tonight unfortunately. An Aberdeen train had been cancelled so our train was extended to cope with the extra people. Imagine what it would have been like if the route had been operated by voyagers! A four-car unit would have been grossly over-crowded meaning an 8-car unit. Can you see scotrail investing in 5-car units?

Sightings were:
170413 (travelled on) 15872x too, sorry we were to busy running for the train/knackered.
67007 sleeper,
66097, 37401, 37411 in millburn yard and
158734 in the station.