Not sure why a bridge is necessary when a ramp in the style of Glenrothes with Thornton could be built on the north side of the road bridge
Possibly to drive up the cost to justify closure.
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"Breich earmarked for first Scottish station closure in 31 years"
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Posted 7 years ago #
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I wonder how many of the consultation respondents have ever been to the station?
Indeed! I assume the 2017 passengers will be "through the roof", with literally tens of people a week turning up for their change to see the glories of Briech station (but not distant Briech) before it closed.
Realistically it probably should be given a chance, i.e. improve facilities and services for the short-to-mid term and if it still only gets 3 people a week in a few years time then try and close it again.
But it can get silly. Carnoustie also has Barry Links (~70 pax per annum) and Golf Street (~170 pax per annum) stations for no real justifiable reason.
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As you can’t go to Glasgow and back on the same day from Breich the low passenger number is hardly a surprise. You can only travel in the Edinburgh direction and then back not in the Glasgow direction. If it stopped even 4 times a day twice in each direction then numbers may be higher.
Not sure it would have to lead to longer journey times, it would depend what the constraints are, the other bottlenecks possibly, as the train may be able to make time by going fast to allow for the stop there would be higher fuel costs irrespectively
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Carnoustie also has Barry Links (~70 pax per annum) and Golf Street (~170 pax per annum) stations for no real justifiable reason.
Do they get used once a decade when the Open is there?
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Services to Barry Links and Golf Street are deliberately time-tabled to discourage people from using them - one train a day to Dundee, leaving at 6am, with a return at 7pm.
If there were trains running at times people actually might want to travel they'd have many more passengers.
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Posted 7 years ago #
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@Ed1: the fact the stops have been removed (until now) suggests there is probably a non-zero cost to stopping does it not?
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There may be many stops that make a loss in terms of added fuel cost not offset by customers usage. It may be more of a quasi-political decision than an economic one which to close. I get the Shotts line fairly often at night its normal for the train to stop at many stations and no one to get on or off.
It may well be a non-zero cost in cash terms it would use more fuel but it may or may not make overall journey times start of track to end longer. (some journeys would be, but some may be less when made time if was same bottle necks). Train sometimes has to wait before Waverley and give way to long distance trains at times by Kirknewton. train seems to dawdle sometimes I guess to wait for another section to clear. The extra time of stopping may be could come out dawdle time.Posted 7 years ago #
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