Baxenden Bank
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If someone really wanted to do it, I'm sure they could find a way. After all they kept people in their houses for weeks.It would mean border controls, and that isn't devolved. Without that it would be unenforceable.
Thinking aloud, if you ran non-stop after the pre-border station to a terminus, you could have staff (or a thermal-imaging camera) at that terminus checking temperatures of all passengers on arrival. A high temperature is a sign of potential COVID, and there are enforceable public heath based restrictions on the movements of the diseased. Taken away to a 'Welcome to Scotland Hostel' for 14 days?
For example all west coast trains non-stop Carlisle to Glasgow/Edinburgh, east coast trains non-stop Berwick to Edinburgh. Dumfries route more problematical but compulsory train swap at Dumfries?
Air travel clearly can be controlled.
Road travel clearly much more difficult. Time for some 'urgent roadworks' on the M74, with the ensuing single lane traffic jam patrolled by Sturgeon Squads carrying electronic thermometers!