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Passengers face longer journeys



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Published Date: 04 September 2008
PASSENGERS in central Scotland face significant rail disruption next month during junction work near Edinburgh.
Trains on the main Edinburgh-Glasgow line will be halved in frequency to half hourly and take 20 minutes longer from Saturday, 11 to Friday, 17 October.

The Edinburgh-Bathgate line, which is being double tracked from Newbridge junction, will also be shut from 11-19 October.



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  • Last Updated: 03 September 2008 10:19 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: ScotRail , The railways
 
1

truthsleuth,

04/09/2008 00:11:11
Is this (and other closures) really necessary.
Poor old BR managed to do most of what Network Rail requires to close lines without having to do so.
2

gus1940,

Edinburgh 04/09/2008 09:35:05
Please don't tell us that when the line re-opened they laid the single track up the middle of the old trackbed.

I hope they aren't stupid enough to do this on the Waverley Line.
3

Andrew,

04/09/2008 18:02:52
This is in connection (pardon the unintended pun) with the much vaunted and most welcomed rebuilding and reopening of the ENITRE Helensburgh/Balloch-Glasgow-Airdrie-Bathgate-Edinburgh/North Berwick (Dunbar/Reston/Berwick upon Tweed?)line, which will give FOUR disparate rail routes between Scotland's two major cities! Ironically it will be the SECOND to be fully electrified (as is that via Motherwell-Carstairs-Kirknewton) but still only a secondary route compared to the main E&G from Queen St thro' Falkirk High to Waverley! Maybe a few more 'sparks' would ""set the heather alight""!

 

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