One of the suburban stations in the Glasgow suburban electric network,Dalmarnock, has been temporarily closed as they are modernising and doing something about improving it and it's facilities. However Scotrail has now publicly announced the station will have to be closed a little longer as they discovered they are trying to rebuild on a station that was there many years previously........
You couldn't make this up - a station on top of a station!
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norfolksouthern37
what's a normal map?
they discovered they were rebuilding something?
I suppose i am being a little mischievous but there is still a point to be got!
There has always been a station at that locale at Dalmarnock and goes right back to Victorian times on the east side of the city back in steam days. Then in the 60's when the network was electrified they decided to bring back the old station which had been closed and much of it removed. The odd thing is that when passnger rail was passed back to private control from the State it was the State company that did an inhouse buy-out so they should have known the foundations were there. Since then First Scotrail got the franchise. When you consider all the work and redoing that went on to modernise and elctrify the suburban system how could you miss the siteof the previous station at the same pioint/ Having made the admittance the station will remain closed until they get right back to basics and being at the mouth of a tunnel duing the changes a really amusing mistake.
There has always been a station at that locale at Dalmarnock and goes right back to Victorian times on the east side of the city back in steam days. Then in the 60's when the network was electrified they decided to bring back the old station which had been closed and much of it removed. The odd thing is that when passnger rail was passed back to private control from the State it was the State company that did an inhouse buy-out so they should have known the foundations were there. Since then First Scotrail got the franchise. When you consider all the work and redoing that went on to modernise and elctrify the suburban system how could you miss the siteof the previous station at the same pioint/ Having made the admittance the station will remain closed until they get right back to basics and being at the mouth of a tunnel duing the changes a really amusing mistake.
SO they were digging around for new construction and found old construction (foundations) that they didn't know where there? That happens in Baltimore, where I used to live, often. There's a lot of stuff that simply wasn't documented from 2 centuries ago. I'd think that would be even more common in England/Europe.
In fact, due to changing shore lines, there was once a case where they were digging the foundation for a skyscraper well inland and unearthed the remains of a ship.
In fact, due to changing shore lines, there was once a case where they were digging the foundation for a skyscraper well inland and unearthed the remains of a ship.
You have got near it there frogpipe apart from the historical angle. Considering when the original station closed then it's replacement at electrificication one would expect that in the circumstances, awareness of the station would have been known as it is the same site. Now because of this hiccupt the present day station modernisation is going to be delayed for a good number of months well into 2013 which tends to show there is much in existance needing attention! Iy wil have lifts installed a new booking office and anything that improves the existing unattractive thing is an improvement.