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23/04/2024	North Lanarkshire locals not surprised after sinkhole brings train line to a halt STV
	Improved Levenmouth bus services announced to complement rail link launch The Courier
	Line closed indefinitely after massive sinkhole appears under tracks in Scotland Scotsman
	Could traffic lights be installed on the A96 at Forres to improve road safety? Press and Journal
	Scots train line closed indefinitely after massive sinkhole appears under tracks Daily Record
	97% of passengers are with us on this issue says Northern as train operator releases annual fare dodging statistics Northern
	CalMac: MV Isle of Lewis arrives in Greenock for repairs Greenock Telegraph
	Network Rail Scotland and Netball Scotland announce three-year partnership Network Rail
22/04/2024	Train drivers at 16 rail companies to stage fresh strikes over bank holiday week STV
	Thornton Road bridge reopens Network Rail
	Airdrie - Bathgate line to remain closed at Caldercruix as engineers repair sinkhole damage Network Rail
	Network Rail silence on vital passing loop worries Highland rail campaigners Inverness Courier
	Fresh disruption on North Lanarkshire train line as sinkhole on tracks keeps line closed STV
	Edinburgh firm that cleans luxury Royal Scotsman train gears up for expansion and new jobs Scotsman
	Railway reopened exactly one month after train derailment in Grange-over-Sands Network Rail

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1865	Formartine and Buchan Railway Maud to Fraserburgh opened. Stations opened at Brucklay [2nd], Strichen, Mormond, Rathen and Fraserburgh.
1877	Dingwall and Skye Railway Highland Railway takes over steamer operations. (Including PS Carham.)
1900	Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway The line was doubled from Milngavie Junction to Milngavie.
1950	Belfast and County Down Railway Donaghadee Branch (Belfast and County Down Railway) Closed from Donaghadee to Newtonards [2nd] and Belfast Queen's Quay.
1961	Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway Workers trains cease to serve Gascoed Royal Ordnance Factory.
1963	Addiewell Branch (North British Railway) Addiewell Goods [NB] to Whitburn (excluded) closed.
1988	Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway Balloch station opened, replacing Balloch Central. Balloch signal box, level crossing and the remaining single track to Balloch Central taken out of use on 25th. (New station possibly named Balloch Central initially, although other sources suggest the old station was renamed Balloch prior to closure.)

73061 photographed near Muirend on 29 April 1960 with a Neilston High - Glasgow Central train.

G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow (1960)

A Class 47 loco stabled near a junction in summer 1989 but where and what are those gantries for?
[Added 01 March 2023.]

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Related to Balnaguard Halt.

Half a sign

A sign survives on the nearby road which, having been damaged, reads

BALNA
LMS Halt

on one side and

GUARD
PLATFORM

on the reverse.

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Key events

March 2024	Alex Hynes departure announced from Scotland for DfT Jacobite suspended
February 2024	Dunblane resignalling to allow southbound trains to depart from Platform 3 Highland networks closed by storm on 5 February East Kilbride carpark reduced for new station construction Addiewell temporarily closed for reconstruction Brodick ferries diverted to Troon by Ardrossan pier damage Seawall damage near Helmsdale
January 2024	'The Hatch' café opens at Singer 'Reboot your Commute' advertising campaign Four loops taken out of use during snow on HML Storms Isha and Jocelyn led to network closures from 1900 on 21 and 23 January Storm Ingunn on 31 January closed West and North Highland routes
December 2023	Further strikes and other action by ASLEF at DfT train operators in first week of December Glasgow-Barrhead electric services begin Cathcart Circle and Shotts expresses restored all day East Linton station opens 'Polar Express' trains on the Edinburgh South Suburban First Boxing Day trains to Edinburgh since 1981 Storms Pia and Gerritt affect services
November 2023	RMT members vote to accept pay offer, but ASLEF announce a rolling programme of strikes in December at DfT operators. Waverley brought to a standstill for rest of day after power-surge fried signals on 2 November. Calls suspended at Altnabreac. New Sleeper lounge at Euston. New coffee-shop at Shettleston.

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