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“East Linton to have train station for first time in more than half a century”
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Posted 3 years ago #
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No mention of walking or cycling routes to the station. But hey, we got the 126 parking spaces...
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The station is slightly further west than the old one. The car park will be on the south side of the line whilst pedestrians and cyclists will be able to access the station from the north by going past the primary school and across the park. As most of East Linton is north of the line I'd imagine very few pedestrians or cyclists will opt to access via the car park side unless they're coming from further afield.
Posted 3 years ago # -
“The car park will be on the south side of the line“
Had assumed the illustration was looking north towards the Forth.
Posted 3 years ago # -
They do like to mention that it's potentially supporting economic growth in that article. I suspect that the economy which will benefit most is housebuilding.
Posted 3 years ago # -
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But councillors raised fears the station could become a “white elephant” when no information was available on how many trains would use it.
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Posted 3 years ago # -
Nice to cycle to East Linton and several cafes. Longniddry to Hadders cinder track good.
Train to East Linton and cycling round about would also be fine.
The hills roll a fair bit and the river Tyne carves a valley. Where the houses will go? Farmers’ fields?
Posted 3 years ago # -
no information was available on how many trains would use it.
East Lothian councillors with their finger on the pulse again. TPE have said 14 services will call there on weekdays. If ScotRail's Dunbar service also calls there that'll be another 26 trains. Of course, trying to predict train timetables in 3 years time is not dissimilar to predicting the lottery numbers.
Posted 3 years ago # -
Any railway station opening sounds like good news to me. East Linton is a nice village with some good places to eat.
I do think "commuter village with extra houses" though.
Posted 3 years ago # -
"commuter village with extra houses"
Yes.
At least some chance more people will take the train to Ed rather than drive.
Posted 3 years ago # -
At least some chance more people will take the train to Ed rather than drive.
The Midlothian experience would indicate that (1) trains get quickly full up (2) traffic increases substantially on top of that.
Not really much work in East Linton ...
Posted 3 years ago # -
On the Beeb website.
"The new station will be fully accessible with lifts and a footbridge connecting both platforms, 126 car parking spaces and cycling storage facilities."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-58488144
I'm not going to be grumpy about this. I love trains and railway stations and I hope all the holes in Scotland's railway network are filled up.
In Zoe Heller's Notes on a Scandal the characters take a taxi from Edinburgh to Peebles "because the train would be too slow" - that's before the Borders Railway was built. Slow indeed - probably won't arrive until 2040, if at all.
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