A boring trip to Linlithgow
After a long period of procrastination and indecision, I headed down to Waverley Station this afternoon and bought a return ticket to Linlithgow. It was an off-peak ticket (peak-time fares have temporarily been abolished in Scotland), yet the fare for the twenty-minutes-each-way journey was no less that £10.60, which seems absolutely extortionate to me. If I'd been willing to sit on a bus for an hour each way, I could have travelled for free. My intention was to have a trundle around the charity shops in Linlithgow to see if I could lay my hands on some macrame plant-hangers so I can hang my trailing fuchsias up in my windows, but of course, no such thing could I find. I also intended to stock up on some feedstuffs from the Tesco there, but managed to arrive just as a party of Orange marchers in their military uniforms were emerging from a pair of tour buses and going to stock up on booze for their after-parade piss-up. I'm not religious, but I detest religious sectarianism and bigotry and can't help feeling intimidated in the presence of these hatemongering bigots. I can only imagine how threatened Roman Catholics must feel by them. They are a disgusting blight on society.
Anyway, I grabbed my bits'n'pieces and made my escape from the supermarket as quickly as I could, and returned to Linlithgow Station. It's a busy station with six-or-so trains per hour in each direction, and despite the dismal weather, I spent an hour-or-so taking photos of the passing trains. After I'd taken a couple of photos, I decided to see if my wee Samsung camera has a setting for moving subjects, and found that it doesn't. However, while scrolling through the settings, the file-size setting took it upon itself to reset to the default, i.e. smallest, size of 1024 x 768 pixels. I only discovered this when I got home and downloaded the photos to my computer, and found that most of those I'd taken were too small to be of use. The sky was a very dismal grey and almost all the trains that pass through Linlithgow are Class 385 EMUs in any case, so you can all breathe a sigh of relief that you aren't going to be subjected to a load of very boring pictures of very boring trains!
The 1R83 15:46 Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street train, formed by Hitachi Class 385 4-car EMU Nos. 385 110 (leading) and 385 116 (trailing) arrives at Linlithgow Station on 29th June, 2024.
Forming the 1B30 12:48 Inverness to Edinburgh Waverley train, an HST with Class 43 power car No. 43179 leading and No. 43124 trailing passes through Linlithgow Station on 29th June, 2024.
Anyway, I grabbed my bits'n'pieces and made my escape from the supermarket as quickly as I could, and returned to Linlithgow Station. It's a busy station with six-or-so trains per hour in each direction, and despite the dismal weather, I spent an hour-or-so taking photos of the passing trains. After I'd taken a couple of photos, I decided to see if my wee Samsung camera has a setting for moving subjects, and found that it doesn't. However, while scrolling through the settings, the file-size setting took it upon itself to reset to the default, i.e. smallest, size of 1024 x 768 pixels. I only discovered this when I got home and downloaded the photos to my computer, and found that most of those I'd taken were too small to be of use. The sky was a very dismal grey and almost all the trains that pass through Linlithgow are Class 385 EMUs in any case, so you can all breathe a sigh of relief that you aren't going to be subjected to a load of very boring pictures of very boring trains!
The 1R83 15:46 Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Queen Street train, formed by Hitachi Class 385 4-car EMU Nos. 385 110 (leading) and 385 116 (trailing) arrives at Linlithgow Station on 29th June, 2024.
Forming the 1B30 12:48 Inverness to Edinburgh Waverley train, an HST with Class 43 power car No. 43179 leading and No. 43124 trailing passes through Linlithgow Station on 29th June, 2024.