Once again the Scottish Government promise a date without listening to the professionals.
It is all ready starting to sound like the Edinburgh Trams again.
I hope they do get this open, as it helps people living on the A7 corridor, but will probably not use it except to try when it opens.
The part of the borders I live in is 30 miles from Tweedbank, and by the time I had driven there I would be 3/4 of the way to Edinburgh, so for the mid borders it is a bit of a white elephant.
If they reopened Reston station on the ECML I would use that however as I have to go in the wrong direction to get to Berwick.
As for the line opening further south I can't see how they can get past Melrose without knocking a chunk of the old town down to redirect the bypass with sits on the old formation.
Tom
This was a post I made in 2013.
I you can see I was quite negative about the success of the line.
It has been nice to have been proven wrong so far, I going to Edinburgh next Saturday and guess what I am going on the train.
I work in Kelso and a lot of people I know here who have cars and could drive to Edinburgh, use the train as it is easier than trying to drive and park in the centre.
I think that it will now go to Hawick and I would not be surprised if it is not put into the Network Rail works plan fairly soon, no matter who is in charge in Edinburgh after May.
Still would like to know how they are going to sort out Melrose problem though.
It really is a case here " Build it and they will come "
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