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Calls are being made to re-open a railway line shut 60 years ago as concerns grow that transport links in Dumfries and Galloway have become a key cause of depopulation.
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Ms Dickie said: “The key thing is this a permanent change and that allows people to make long-term choices about their modes of transport.
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Meet the Scottish woman who drives Freightliner trains nearly a mile long - taking 60 lorries off the road
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End of peak faresm is great news for commuters, not so great for my man maths to justify commuting bike. Now the difference between a single and a return is pennies, it will take 1425 weeks of train savings to pay for my new bike cycling home twice a week.
Of course for folks who like bikes the train money saving was never really a consideration when purchasing bike.
However if you're new and swithering on whether to buy a bike, and considering cost, I suspect 2 quid a week saving deems the bike uneconomical (unless you can cycle both ways often)?
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It also enables bike commuting as well though, for people who're less fit or coming from further out - bike-on-train for commuters is now the same price as it is for anyone else, and if you were spending money on fuel or public transport at either end of a train journey as well then ride>train>ride could end up saving you a few quid a day.
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More than £340 million is to be invested into the Fife and Borders railway as part of plans to upgrade trains and electrify the lines.
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“Just as we are investing in our routes, so too are we committed to modernising our fleets, that is why I can also confirm that ScotRail has been authorised to initiate a procurement exercise for new battery-electric trains that will operate on the Borders Railway, Fife, and also for the replacement of some of those electric fleets currently operating in Glasgow.
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[Transport Scotland were] tasked to develop the hybrid train options for the stages of best value balance for installing 'knitting' vs using batteries or other prime movers for the gaps where it is just too difficult or costly to electrify the railway
The new trains supplied by Stadler for several operators already have been operating with a central diesel or a battery module connected to outer modules which can operate as pure electric trains with the centre unit removed
The trains also have floor heights dropped to match platform heights (915mm), whilst other suppliers still build to the old standard (1100mm. The Hitachi bodyshell design also builds in a 2" step at every external door for the Class 80x (LNER, Lumo, TPE and now also Avanti) plus the Scotrail Class 385, there also remains the bogie yaw issue which saw the new trains having fractures in yaw damper brackets through an embedded resonant oscillation issue
The trains built for Liverpool also use a version of the cycle stowage (a design I first noted in 1988) which fits 3 bikes into the space released by removing a pair of fixed seats, plus cutting back the draught screen at the sliding doors. By neatly angling the front wheels 3 bikes fit in the same space as most trains allow for just 2
Hopefully we'll see the experience of Merseyrail and Greater Anglia's newest trains being used for the Scotrail ones, with the 'standard' that I pressed for with the Class 380 and Class 385 trans, that has also been retro-fitted on HST (Coach C) plus the Class 334 (refurbishment) with a cycle space at least 2.4 metres long (5 tip-up seats), which can easily accommodate tandems, long-tails, recumbents and trikes
I'll repost this on a 'new trains thread for follow-up & images
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https://www.thenational.scot/news/25508246.11-million-rail-freight-terminal-built-inverness/
The funding from the Scottish Government was awarded through the Freight Facilities Grant to West Fraser Limited and is expected to remove around 20,000 HGV journeys off the A96 and A9 and eliminate approximately 9000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.
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London North Eastern Railway (LNER) has come under fire for framing Edinburgh as an extension of "North London" to encourage people to visit Scotland's capital city by train.
The rail operator has unveiled a new advertisement campaign promoting train travel along the East Coast Main Line.
As part of the campaign, a large billboard has appeared in the Shoreditch area of London, featuring LNER's animated character, Eleanor, against a backdrop of Calton Hill in Edinburgh.
It features the slogan "Think of it as North London. Really, really North London.
"Explore Leeds, Newcastle, Edinburgh & more by train".“
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East Coast Main Line December 2025 Timetable
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https://ecmltimetable.info/changes-following-december-2024-feedback
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From a family of 5 bikes on an Avanti train
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Although they did ask me to disconnect my dynamo
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@chdot - The Guardian interactive map seems to be missing much of Scotland's rail network. Nice idea though.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/16/great-british-railways-clock-launches-london-bridge
You can have a version - https://railclock.davwheat.dev/
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“If people know where they are and what time it is, we’ll have done something good.”
Interesting. I haven't had an actual watch for decades and use my mobile. The aim of the GB clock is unified marketing though as much as actual info? Railway platforms still will have numerique displays?
In the end this may go to Network stations but less likely at ScotRail ones I suspect.Posted 1 month ago # -
Eurostar is to start running doubledecker trains through the Channel tunnel to meet growing demand for international rail travel from the UK.
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Eurostar said the Celestia trains ... would have about 20% more seats than its biggest existing trains. Some of the extra space would be taken up by stairs, but it would also be used for wheelchairs, bicycles, additional legroom and “surprises”, it said.Posted 1 month ago # -
Not everyone believes their press release:
https://gruene.social/@jon/115422840974490649
Suggests that the first batch of these trains is unlikely to venture through the tunnel.Posted 1 month ago # -
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Consent for a station in Winchburgh was granted by the local authority on Monday and follows calls from locals for a new station after the population in the village more than doubled in the last 10 years.
The station is set to be located adjacent to the new Winchburgh Town Centre, with plans also including a park and ride and electric vehicle charging points.
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https://www.thenational.scot/news/25578434.new-train-station-west-lothian-village-green-lit-council/
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Which brings us to the catch. Look at the development of the scheme and a constant theme seems to be the Scottish Government persistently leaving obstacles in the way. When the idea of the station was first mooted in 2010, the policy at the time was not to approve the station because the line was being electrified to cut journey times and another station would slow things down. After electrification, the government agency Transport Scotland then asked for a business case and specialist reports, which showed that the timetable would not be affected, and yet even after all of that materialised, still the station has not happened.
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https://www.thenational.scot/news/25587367.cash-rail-projects-priority-greens-upcoming-budget-talks/
“You could get far more people through the door here, far more people out onto the High Street here in Newburgh, if you actually had those public transport opportunities,” he said.
“That applies in Fraserburgh as well. It applies in a lot of my region, across the West of Scotland, so I'm keen that we talk up the two way opportunities here.
“It's two way opportunities ticking all three of the main boxes,” he added.
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“The social benefits are massive and obvious, and the environmental benefits are massive and obvious. “It is a win-win all round.”
For Ruskell, whose report looked at options to introduce a rail line from Alloa to Dunfermline, a new railway and station for St Andrews and a park and ride station in Halbeath, said that he believed there was an “inbuilt bias” against rail within Transport Scotland and the Scottish Government.
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Mark Ruskell MSP launched his ‘Breaking the Circle’ strategy at Lindores Abbey last week, and it calls for continued progress on the region’s rail links including opening up Newburgh Station and getting St Andrews on the rail map.
It also pinpointed the huge potential by adding a station to the busy park and ride facility at Halbeath, and getting passenger trains running again on the Alloa-Dunfermline line which is used for freight
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LNER updateDue to a fault, bikes can’t be carried on these services:
• 14:03 KGX → Bradford FS
• 17:31 Bradford FS → KGX
• 21:05 KGX → Leeds“
https://x.com/lner/status/1990069570225291380
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Explosion on Polish railway was ‘unprecedented act of sabotage,’ says PM
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The ORR said: “Our decision on the Manchester-London service was based on robust evidence provided by Network Rail that adding services within firebreak paths on the west coast mainline would have a detrimental impact on performance. We identified that this service would run in one of those paths.
“If Avanti operates the service as empty coaching stock, [it] can be run more flexibly – delayed or rerouted – than a booked passenger service. This can assist with performance management
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