365533 at Polmont365533 pauses at Polmont with 1R76 Glasgow Queen Street - Edinburgh Waverley 19.7.18 Thursday 19th July saw Electric units working for the first time between Glasgow Queen Street and Falkirk Grahamston.   The electrification was recently completed from Cumbernauld up to Falkirk Grahamston and then on to the Edinburgh - Glasgow Line.   380013 and 380017 were the units working on the service on the first day.

Meanwhile on the Edinburgh Waverley - Glasgow Queen Street line, the service between the 2 cities was operated entirely by Electric units for the first time, with class 365 and 380's operating the workings.

Units operating were:

• 365519
• 365533
• 365509
• 365517+365529
• 365521+365537
• 380111
• 380107
• 380008+380116

43013 tnt 43062 at Polmont43013 top and tailed with 43062 passes through Polmont with 1Q24 Heaton - Newcastle via Glasgow Queen Street 16.7.18 The network rail measuring train consisting of HST power cars 43013 top and tailed with 43062 accelerate through Polmont with the return leg of 1Q24 Heaton - Newcastle via Glasgow Queen Street 16.7.18

43013 tnt 43062 at Polmont43013 top and tailed with 43062 passes through Polmont with 1Q24 Heaton - Newcastle via Glasgow Queen Street 16.7.18	43013 tnt 43062 at Polmont43013 top and tailed with 43062 passes through Polmont with 1Q24 Heaton - Newcastle via Glasgow Queen Street 16.7.18
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419 at Bo'nessnearing the end of a major overhaul, Caledonian Railway 439 class no 419 is seen being worked on outside the steam shed at Bo'ness 11.7.18 Nearing the end of a major overhaul, Caledonian Railway 439 class no 419 is seen being worked on outside the steam shed at Bo'ness 11.7.18

419 is due to be back in service at Bo'ness in time for the Autumn steam gala later in the year.

37668+44871+37516 at Gartcosh37668 top and tailed with 37516 and Black 5 44871 and support coach sandwiched in between, pass through Gartcosh with 5Z37 Fort William - Carnforth 9.7.18 37668 top and tailed with 37516 and Black 5 44871 and support coach sandwiched in between, pass through Gartcosh with 5Z37 Fort William - Carnforth 9.7.18

147 at North PierLooking fantastic following it's recent repaint, Standard 147 is seen at North Pier with a heritage service from Pleasure Beach 1.7.18 I was in Blackpool for a week long holiday from 1st - 7th July.   The blue heritage service was in operation for the full week with 2 trams required to work the promenade service from Pleasure Beach to North Pier with 4 journeys per day extended to Cabin.   The tram on Route A did the first 2 journeys to Cabin, while the route B tram did the final 2 journeys.

The weather was absolutely fantastic with blue sky and sunshine meaning that as boat 600 was the only open topped tram available for use during the week, it was used every day with either Standard 147(looking fantastic after it's repaint) or Bolton 66 working the other route.  

Of the other open top trams: Boat 227(602) was still having work done to it's rewire and internal repaint, Boat 230 (604) is awaiting a rewire, Open topped Balloon 706 (Princess Alice) is out of service in need of a new underframe and an overhaul, Birkenhead 20 was still unavailable and Standard 143's overhaul (with open front ends) wont be complete until next year.

Balloon 717 was spotted reversing at Cabin on Thursday evening (5th) following a private hire.  

On Friday (6th), the service was thrown into chaos when Boat 600 dewired at the Pleasure Beach, with the trolley wheel also coming off the pole.  This meant that nothing could run south of Manchester Square for 2 hours while the overhead was repaired.   600's trolley wheel was refitted and the tram returned to service none the worse the wear.

All the flexity trams saw use at some point over the week, however it was good to see both 017 and 018 in service. Both are identical to 001-016 both externally and internally although the fresh paintwork on the new trams makes 001-016 look in need of a repaint, especially on the purple areas which look faded compared to that on 017 and 018.

A full gallery of photos from the week can be found at: http://scottishtrains.zenfolio.com/p548244318

365537+517 and 380104+017 at CroyA meeting of 2 different classes of unit which are providing temporary cover on the E & G line: 365537+365517 pause at Croy on their 2nd day in passenger service with Scotrail working 1R82 Glasgow Queen Street - Linlithgow, whilst 380104+380017 arrive with 1R73 Linlithgow - Glasgow Queen Street 24.6.18 The first pair of class 365's entered service on Saturday 23rd June with 365537+365517 operating on the 22.30 service from Glasgow Queen Street - Edinburgh Waverley returning with the 23.30 working back to Glasgow Queen Street.  

On 24th June, 365537+365517 were back out on service again operating between Queen Street and Linlithgow as the line was closed beyond Linlithgow for engineering works.    365537 has kept it's name from it's time with Great Northern and is still called 'Daniel Edwards - Cambridge Driver 1974-2010'

8 units are currently based at Eastfield with the final 2 units due to arrive on Wednesday morning.   Units currently in Scotland are: 365509, 365513, 365517, 365521, 365523, 365525, 365529 and 365537

92038 at CarstairsCaledonian Sleeper liveried 92038 and 16 mark 5's pause at Carstairs with 5Z26 Polmadie - Carlisle Upperby Sleeper test run 22.6.18

Caledonian Sleeper liveried 92038 and 16 mark 5's pause at Carstairs with 5Z26 Polmadie - Carlisle Upperby Sleeper test run 22.6.18