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No.	Image	Description
1		Cab view from a 156 at Glasgow Queen Street (High Level), platform 2 - one of seven in this terminus.
2		An overview of Glasgow Queen Street (High Level). Here you can see how the tracks from the seven platforms in the station, merge into two tracks that head into the tunnel and up a steep 1 in 45 incline.
3		Looking from the station towards the tunnel. Here you can see the 1 in 45 incline that proves a challenge for any train to manage from the standing start it gets just a short distance back from that tunnel mouth.
4		Looking up Cowlairs incline at the other end of the tunnel.
5		Another view from near the same place. Note the signals on the right - Both lines here are bi-directional.
6		A little further up the incline.
7		Further up the incline still! Near the top of the bank, actually! Phew!
8		Cowlairs Signal Box.
9		The lines on the left and right form legs of a triangle with the Glasgow Queen Street - Edinburgh mainline. Cowlairs Signal Box (above) actually sits on the base, or the third leg, of that triangle. Your train comes in from Queen Street on the line on the left. The line on the right enables connections to be made between the West Highlands to and from Edinburgh.
10		Ashfield station, a mere five minutes from Glasgow Queen Street (High Level).
11		Possilpark & Parkhouse station.
12		Maryhill station - The last station on this stretch of line between Glasgow Queen Street (High Level) and Craigendoran Junction that is served only by diesel trains - a short distance away is the start of the electrified section...
13		...Knightswood North Junction. Here the Queen Street High-Level line merges with the electrified line from Queen Street Low-Level.
14		Kilpatrick station.
15		Dumbarton Central, from the air!
16		Dalreoch Station, where the line splits - Left for Craigendoran and right for Balloch.
17		Dalreoch Cutting, leading to Dalreoch Tunnels (550 yards).
18		The other side of the tunnels.
19		Craigendoran Junction, where the line splits again - Left for Craigendoran and Helensburgh Central, right for Crianlarich to Oban or Fort William and Mallaig. Note the sea wall is still to be added. ;)

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I apologise for the size and subsequent lack of visible detail in these images. They're still worth a look though!

No.	Image	Description
1		Cab view from a 37 at Glasgow Queen Street.
2		Accelerating, full throttle, up the 1 in 45 incline through the tunnel, approaching one of the vent shafts.
3		Steadily gaining speed, still full throttle!
4		It's 15 mph round Cowlairs West Curve.
5		Approaching Ashfield station, then it's ...
6		... full throttle again, between Ashfield and Possilpark & Parkhouse
7		Ruins of a bridge that used to cross the line.
8		Just passed Possilpark & Parkhouse.
9		Another bridge ruin.
10		Entering a cutting on the stretch between Possilpark & Parkhouse and Lambhill.
11		Entering Singer station.
12		Approaching Dalmuir Tunnel through a cutting.

More images will follow as work progresses.

Credits & Acknowledgements

West Highland Railway Line and North Clydeside Electrics (1994) by Craig Allan & Robert Glass

Thanks to Anthony Bowden (www.railsimroutes.co.uk) for the overhead line equipment (OHLE) seen in these images.

© Copyright of all objects shown in the screen shots belongs to the respective author(s).

Gallery images © Craig Allan & Robert Glass 2004-2006.

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