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FALKIRK is globally renowned for sights such as the Kelpies and the Falkirk Wheel but what many people don’t realise is how easy (and, arguably,…

Scottish Canals winter work programme complete May 20, 2021, by Zlatan Hrvacevic Scottish Canals has reopened the canal network across the country following one of the largest winter work programmes of recent years seeing more than £16.5m spent on improvement works on canal infrastructure and operational equipment. Works included major investment from replacing lock gates on the Caledonian and Crinan Canals to restoring the Union Canal following a breach in August 2020 and renewing the coating on the world’s only rotating boat lift, The Falkirk Whee...

KNEE deep in sludge, in a watery tip where everything from rusting cars to kitchen sinks lurked – even, bizarrely, a child’s coffin – a small group of enthusiasts rolled up their sleeves to begin a mammoth clean-up job. No longer the once bustling water motorway that saw sea-going vessels and barges transport everything from crops to livestock, to passengers from the port of Grangemouth to the heart of Glasgow, the world’s first man-made sea to sea ship canal, the Forth & Clyde, was in its death throes. Opened in 1790 to serve the industrial revolution and closed in 1963, the wa...

Scottish Enterprise project converting train to hydrogen power Scottish Enterprise, Transport Scotland and the Hydrogen Accelerator, based at the University of St Andrews, have appointed Arcola Energy and a consortium of industry leaders in hydrogen fuel cell integration, rail engineering and functional safety to deliver Scotland’s first hydrogen powered train. A key objective of the project is to create opportunities for the Scottish rail supply chain through skills development and industrialisation of the technology. A retired ScotRail Class 314 electric set has been transported by road f...