101: New electrification masts in place

102: JCB waits its next duty on the new trackbed

103: Platform 1 shuttered off

104: View from steps between station and Caley Ale House

105: The bay can be seen being cut from the present car park area

106: Platform edge is now more complete, and excavation appears to be complete

107: Looking west from the island platform shows the largely complete platform edges

108: new crossovers and connection to Platform 0 can be seen as the Stirling express service crosses from the Fife lines in the distance and the Motherwell service sneaks off to the left

109: New meets old - the taper has been removed and the mini digger looks a long way down

110: men at work with the new safety fencing in place

111: Manholes in place and the hardcore awaits tarmac

112: Platform edge takes shape

113: fencing posts in place on the car park side of the bay - really starting to take shape

114: Lampposts and paving slabs the latest additions

115: heavy plant in evidence

116: Trackwork extends almost to the end of the bay

117: two road rail machines are just seen through the fencing protecting the car park

118: surfacing almost complete at the west end

119: looking east showing the largely complete platform and fencing

120: the blue wooden hoardings hve been replaced with metal panel fencing allowing glimpses of the new platform - the closk appears temporary, but furtther away can just be seen the platform starter indicators

121: contractors work to commission the lighting

122: the starter signal is obscured by the OHL support from this angle, but should be visible from the cab

123: Platform 1 canopy is finished with new lights in place

124: up on the roof

125: still a way to go with the canopy works, with only four days to go

126: new signals at the east end of the station, presumably for reversible working

127: 158732 on the 1133 Edinburgh - Dunblane passes an uncommissioned but poorly covered signal head on Platform 4 - the yellow cover conceals a phone

128: 170454 at the buffers on day 1

129: off indicator sign

130: 170456 ready for departure with the 0923 Cowdenbeath

131: 158 passes newly commissioned turn back signal

132: 170456 awaits the road

133: drivers eye view

134: 170456 driving cab (door had been left open!)

135: and finallly....170456 on the first passenger train from Platform 0, the two earlier arrivals having gone through to Waverley!

136: Different time zones??