Recent content by cjt0131

just a little political point to make here it is very hypocritical of MSP john lamont to make this statement as from day one when the borders railway was first suggested in recent times he was 100% opposed to it

although running the steam charters on a sunday was designed not to interfere with the timetabled service I can assure you that it did lead to delays and some cancellations to the hourly sunday service

I seem to recall a local radio interview at start of December (the 3 months had been reached) where passenger journeys were quoted as 385,000

very very unfair comment about lorry drivers

i read this with interest http://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/13874973.Borders_Railway_cancellations__shocking_and_unacceptable_/ as I am sure mr hume knows buses trains and planes get delayed and cancelled every single day---it is a hazard of public transport over crowding happens...

I have no so far had reason to use the new train service question-----is it possible to buy tickets from machines at gala or tweedbank using cash ?

be great to see a station serving inverness airport

125,000 trips in the first month is impressive but I agree it is meaningless and gives absolutely no indication of the future success of this service numbers such as has been quoted will not be maintained and anyone who thinks they will be are quite frankly living in cloud cuckoo land I do...

don't worry a bus shelter will come david parker (council leader) lives in tweedbank and what tweedbank wants tweedbank gets just look around gala in snowy times----tweedbank gets cleared quickly where other housing estates are left snow bound

please explain what makes you think this

giving the borderers a chance to connect with EC in Edinburgh and WCML at Carlisle would be great would freight be transported though ? back to the OP------I am amazed that the line was built at the cost it was and the borders was long overdue some capital expenditure

if you were to do a random poll of people living in the borders and Midlothian I would reckon more than 90% of people would not know that stow of wedale was in fact the village of stow in the borders on the subject of overcrowding , late trains etc well !!! of course it will settle down...

I have heard many reports of on certain services people left standing and kids having to sit on the floor given that its a new service and many want to try it out I would have expected more than two carriages on each service

yes back then gala was served by 4 quite small supermarkets fine fare (which became gateway) templetons laws and the co-op(which became pricefighter)

an excellent post I must say sensible and balanced I agree the line should go all the way to Carlisle -- as it would give those using the borders line the option of north to Edinburgh to connect with east coast or south to Carlisle to connect with the west coast rising houses prices if...