#bilston glen

[scotianostra]

Bilston Viaduct A mate took these yesterday, we used to love climbing all over this as bairns

[scotianostra]

Andrew Barclay Works No 1996   No 9   No 29   0-4-0ST

This locomotive was built by Andrew Barclay in 1934 and initially operated as No.9 with Edinburgh Collieries Ltd’s Fleets Colliery near Tranent which is a few miles east of Edinburgh. Upon the crea…

I used to play on this when I was a bairn

Built in 1934 it sent time around a few collieries in Edinburgh and the Lothians, ending up at Bilston Glen at my hometown Loanhead, in 1965, the year I was born!

  Eventually it reached the end of the line, literally up at the Dryden Woods end of their rail track in the early 70's until the pit shut in 1988.

It's now at Pittencrieff park in in Dunfermline,

Click on the link to get full details on the engine. 

https://preservedbritishsteamlocomotives.com/andrew-barclay-works-no-1996-no-9-no-29-0-4-0st/

[unclesamsmisguidedclub]

New Post has been published on Uncle Sam's Misguided Children

New Post has been published on http://unclesamsmisguidedchildren.com/scottish-police-to-officer-you-cant-wear-that-gun/

Scottish police to officer: You can't wear that gun!

A police officer was photographed wearing his holstered sidearm at a railway station in Inverness, Scotland on Tuesday. And that got him in a heap of trouble. But that’s only one serious glitch in Scottish Police: their newest policies have created the need for “well-being clinics” and thrown their dispatchers into a sort of chaos.

This officer was photographed wearing his gun at an Inverness Railway Station

 Fear of firearms?

Scottish Police have a rule: only certain officers get to wear a gun, and they can only wear that gun if they are deployed to a firearms incident or where there is a threat to life. The officer was merely walking down the main concourse of the station, but violated the policy by Scottish police that was instituted in October of 2014. The officer was reprimanded and reminded that he messed up.

In 2013, the Scottish police were allowed to carry their weapons at all times while on duty. But politicians put a stop to that.

Apparently the bad guys have to call ahead in Scotland and tell police that they are going to make threats or shoot people.

The Command center at Bilston Glen- overworked and buried under calls

 Cost cutting and Stress

New regulations for Police Scotland have created a snarl of station closures and major shift changes, and extremely high volumes of stress-related absenteeism. Five dispatch “control rooms”  (3Cs- Contact, Command, Control)  were closed across the country.

According to Scotsman.com, new programs for police dispatch centers have left the personnel feeling like telemarketers in call centers rather than police dispatchers.

The problem has become so critical that up to 1000 calls were dropped at one station alone because of the closures and increased volume of calls received. The Station at Bilston Glen has been hit especially hard as their calls shot through the roof when other stations nearby were closed.

And then there is the matter of being constantly monitored by the computer.

“These people who are already overworked are now looking at screens telling them how many calls are in the queue and what their performance has been. Basically, you are turned into a call centre rather than a public service.” George McIrvine, Scottish Police Unison Secretary

They have been “forced” to set up “well-being clinics” for staff who are stressed. Scotland has become the epitome of a Nanny State- from watching for police who actually carry a gun (oh, the horror of it) to computers that act as a nanny for their dispatchers. Working in law enforcement under those conditions would be nearly impossible.

[jay-ell-gee]

There's two middle-aged men at the top of my street singing "Evil Woman," loudly and badly over and over again! I've never seen people so happy to hear that someone died. It's wierd. I think it might just be the beginning. A lot of former miners here...