Plenty of Nothing

To Cappielow by Tram

The Greenock and Port Glasgow Tramway was started in 1873, was electrified in 1901, and continued until 1929, connecting Gourock to Port Glasgow. Source.

Morton host Inverness Caledonian Thistle in a match bumped from April 3rd due to the Scottish Cup. ICT hold fifth place, Morton are eighth. By coincidence Morton and ICT are the only two Championship clubs left in the cup.

ICT have won five in a row, league and cup. Morton have three wins and two loses in their last five.

Morton have a win and a draw from their two earlier league matches against Inverness.

Also tonight: Ayr United (7th) [0 - 3] Dundee (3rd).

Morton finished 2019-20 with these numbers:

G     W     D     L      F      A    GD    P

28    10     6    12    45    52    -7    36

Coming into today's game they have:

22      6     7      9    19    27    -8    25

Their record at home is:

11      4     3      4    12    13    -1    15

To equal last season's point total Morton need 3 wins and 2 draws, a tall order. To equal their 2019-20 goals scored they must average 5.2 goals per game from here on. Morton have not scored more than 3 goals in any match this season.

After Saturday's loss to Arbroath Alloa seem destined for tenth place, leaving Ayr United, Morton and Arbroath in a three-way race to evade ninth.

Morton's opponents in their remaining league games are ICT (today), Dundee, Hearts, Alloa, Arbroath.

Ayr have Dundee (today), Dunfermline, Arbroath, QoS and Inverness CT.

Arbroath have Raith, Ayr, Dunfermline and Morton.

Alloa have Hearts, Raith, Morton and Dunfermline.

I was going to work out all the permutations and combinations, but they've already done a good job of it here. Just bear in mind that everyone in the forum expects their own team to lose.

[Morton 1 - 4 ICT. Morton's goal was by Muirhead.]

Elsewhere:

Clyde [1 - 1] Cove Rangers

Swiss Cup QF: Aarau [3 - 0] Winterthur

Pohang Steelers [1 - 3] Jeonbuk

Developments:

HFX Wanderers have released Daniel Kinumbe and Ibra Sinoh.

League matches in which Morton beat the top team in their division, 1990s:

1990/11/17    Morton 1 - 0 Airdrieonians    (Division One)

1991/9/6        Morton 3 - 0 Dundee    (Division One)

1991/10/12    Partick Thistle 3 - 4 Morton    (Division One)

1991/10/26    Dundee 0 - 1 Morton    (Division One)

1995/2/25      Morton 1 - 0 Stenhousemuir    (Second Division)

1995/9/23      Morton 2 - 0 Dunfermline    (First Division)

1995/11/25    Dunfermline 0 - 2 Morton    (First Division)

1997/11/22    Dundee 0 - 1 Morton    (First Division)

Most consecutive 1 - 0 results involving Morton:

Four:

1972/2/5        Morton 1 - 0 Cowdenbeath

1972/2/19      Aberdeen 1 - 0 Morton

1972/2/26      Aberdeen 1 - 0 Morton

1972/3/4        St Johnstone 1 - 0 Morton

Four:

1981/1/31      Morton 1 - 0 Kilmarnock

1981/2/7        Aberdeen 0 - 1 Morton

1981/2/14      Morton 1 - 0 Aberdeen

1981/2/21      Dundee United 1 - 0 Morton

Four:

1998/5/9        Morton 1 - 0 Stirling Albion

1998/8/4        Morton 0 - 1 Hibs

1998/8/8        Morton 0 - 1 Ross County

1998/8/15      Ayr United 1 - 0 Morton

CN 3502

During the ice storm of 1998 the city of Boucherville arranged with CN to derail locomotive 3502 and drive it down the street to city hall where it was hooked up and used as a portable generator. Source.

Snaefell Mountain Railway

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Union Station, Toronto, 1916

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John Betjeman at St Pancras Station

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Corners of France: Hendaye

See here for images of Hendaye's urban tramway.

Roundhouses of Nova Scotia

Fairview. Source.

Truro. Source.

Kentville. Source.

Bridgewater. Source.

Glace Bay. Source.

Freight Handler

A statue of a Transportarbeiter in the Moabit neighbourhood of Berlin, made by Felix Kupsch in 1935. DRG stands for Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft. Source.

Italianate Greenock

The Princes Pier railway terminal was constructed in the Italianate style. Source.

All football is postponed, except in Belarus.

Inverness CT do not visit Cappielow.

Developments. The point of interest now is to see which leagues void all of 2019-20, and which just cancel the remainder of it.

On Tuesday, Scottish Rugby voided its 2019-20 season. The Isle of Man FA has voided its season.

On Thursday the Belgian Jupiler League cancelled the rest of its 2019-20 season, so that the partially completed table stands, and declared the top team Club Brugge league champion.

The SPFL as usual is waiting to see what the English Premier League decides, so they can copy and paste it.

Friday. When the SPFL approached UEFA for guidance as to how to end the season, UEFA said it was the SPFL's own decision to make. But after Belgium cancelled its season UEFA pronounced that any leagues that did not complete their schedules would be ineligible for the 2020-21 Champions League and Europa League. Panic.

Besides all this there's the real danger of clubs going under. Rumour has it that the usual 15-point deduction for going into administration will be waived for 2020-21 because so many clubs are expected to qualify for it.

If Morton were to go out of business as a result of all this, how long would it take Greenock Juniors to replace them in the Championship?

2020-21    Greenock must win the new West of Scotland League and any pyramid playoffs.

2021-22    They must win the Lowland League and the pyramid playoffs.

2022-23    They must earn promotion from League Two.

2023-24    They must earn promotion from League One.

2024-25    Championship

The other Championship matches: (all postponed)

Dundee United vs QoS (last night)

Alloa vs Dundee

Ayr United vs Dunfermline

Partick vs Arbroath

This match is the final of the 2019-20 Championship League Cup.

The 2019-20 Championship League Cup in review:

R1    2019/8/30      Arbroath 1 - 0 Dunfermline

R1    2019/8/30      Queen of the South 0 - 1 Alloa

R2    2019/10/29    Morton 2 - 3 Ayr United

R2    2019/12/7      Arbroath 1 - 1 Dundee*

R2    2019/12/7      Dundee United 2 - 1 Alloa

R2    2019/12/14    Partick Thistle 3 - 1 Inverness CT

R3    2020/1/31      Partick Thistle 1 - 1 Ayr United**

R3    2020/2/1        Dundee United 0 - 1 Arbroath

F      2020/4/4        Partick Thistle vs Arbroath (postponed)

*Arbroath advanced by having fewer yellow cards.

**Partick Thistle advanced by having more corner kicks.

League One: (all postponed)

Clyde vs Forfar

Dumbarton vs Peterhead

Falkirk vs Airdrieonians

Montrose vs Raith Rovers

Stranraer vs East Fife

2019-20 has been a very good year for Livingston FC. If they make the split* this would be their second-best season ever. They finished 2001-02 in third place and went to Europe.

*Assuming there are any more games in 2019-20.

1907-08. Morton visited Celtic and lost 2 - 0.

1963-64. Morton visited Albion Rovers at Cliftonhill and played to a scoreless draw.

SWF Championship South: Falkirk vs Morton (April 1) (postponed)

Morton Women vs Falkirk, the record:

2018/6/24      Morton 5 - 3 Falkirk        SWFL1 South

2018/10/21    Falkirk 1 - 2 Morton        SWFL1 South

South Region Challenge Cup, semi-finals:

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Swiss Challenge League: Lausanne-Ouchy vs Winterthur (postponed)

Morton scoring records:

Most goals in tier II since 1994:

  73        2012-13

  57        1995-96

  47        2017-18

  45        2019-20 (28 games)

  45        1998-99

  45        1999-00

Most goals in any division since 1994:

  76        2006-07

  73        2012-13

  67        2002-03

  66        2003-04

  65        2014-15

Most goals ever:

135        1963-64

117        1935-36

113        1966-67

110        1936-37

100        1962-63

JFL: Iwaki FC vs Suzuka Point Getters (postponed)

Bolivian league: The Strongest vs Blooming (tomorrow) (postponed)

Club The Strongest in the Copa Merconorte:

1998/9/16      GS    The Strongest 0 - 2 Atlético Nacional

1998/9/22      GS    Barcelona 1 - 1 The Strongest

1998/10/1      GS    The Strongest 0 - 0 Alianza Lima

1998/10/14    GS    Atlético Nacional 2 - 3 The Strongest

1998/10/20    GS    The Strongest 1 - 0 Barcelona

1998/11/12    GS    Alianza Lima 4 - 0 The Strongest

1999/8/4        GS    The Strongest 0 - 2 Millonarios

1999/8/26      GS    Barcelona 4 - 0 The Strongest

1999/9/16      GS    The Strongest 3 - 2 Alianza Lima

1999/10/7      GS    Millonarios 3 - 2 The Strongest

1999/10/27    GS    The Strongest 2 - 2 Barcelona

1999/11/18    GS    Alianza Lima 2 - 0 The Strongest

Club The Strongest in the Copa Sudamericana:

2003/8/7        PR    The Strongest 2 - 2 Bolívar

2003/8/19      PR    Bolívar 1 - 1 The Strongest (The Strongest won on PK.)

2003/9/16      R2    The Strongest 2 - 0 San Lorenzo

2003/10/7      R2    San Lorenzo 2 - 1 The Strongest

2003/10/29    QF    The Strongest 1 - 4 São Paulo

2003/11/12    QF    São Paulo 3 - 1 The Strongest

2005/8/11      PR    The Strongest 2 - 1 Bolívar

2005/8/25      PR    Bolívar 1 - 2 The Strongest

2005/8/30      R1    The Strongest 2 - 1 Liga de Quito

2005/9/8        R1    Liga de Quito 0 - 3 The Strongest

2005/9/20      16    UNAM 3 - 1 The Strongest

2005/10/5      16    The Strongest 2 - 1 UNAM

2011/8/3        R1    Olimpia 2 - 0 The Strongest

2011/8/11      R1    The Strongest 2 - 1 Olimpia

2013/7/30      R1    Nacional 0 - 0 The Strongest

2013/8/7        R1    The Strongest 1 - 1 Nacional (Nacional advance on the away goal rule.)

Fairy Cottage

Fairy Cottage is a stop on the Manx Electric Railway and dates back to the time when the fairies were building with corrogated iron. Source.