Recent content by fegguk

Scottish Borders Council are looking for a project manager for the feasibility study agreed by the last Government as part of the Borderlands deal. Gareth’s video was arguing for and alternative through route to rival the West Coast Mainline. Something some of the comments above seem to have...

I am surprised people do not know that there is free charging for EVs at many sites over the whole UK it’s not just a Scotrail or Scotland exclusive thing. This is to encourage people to switch amongst other reasons. It will not be a long-term situation as is the case here with Scotrail...

Not on opening day, in the next few weeks.

Looks like Reston Station is getting there for May opening.

This was video was shot last week. Though I might be wrong, a pre Christmas opening looks unlikely. Eastern Borders Railway 3 The further progress at Reston Station October 2021 - YouTube

Music made deliberatly badly to avoid any copy right issues. ;)

A short video I made in June, things will have moved on since then in terms of construction and service uncertainties. If it is still opening in December expect and update soon. Eastern Borders Railway 2 - YouTube

Partially leak the document to a tame newspaper, then spin the message they want before anyone has a chance to read the report, examine it details and make an informed judgment on what it says. Lets have careful sniff before grabbing the bait being dangled by the Government.

I was not suggesting Hawick to Carlisle would generate another 600,000 but that Tweedbank to Carlisle might. As it would include people going from Hawick, St Boswells and Melrose Northward and between the Border towns. It would not need that many more to get close to these sort of numbers if the...

There obviously is a demand for people to travel to and from the central Borders to the south a far as Carlisle and off course further south even with a change as Carlisle. The point is that there would not need to be that much demand for the figures to exceed the modest 0.6m increase figure...

HS2 £56billion for an estimated 109million passengers a year ie £511 per passenger for capacity used. Cost for restoring the Waverley route all the way to Carlisle including the cost of the existing bit £1billion for an estimated 2million passengers a year (1.4M existing plus an extra 0.6M...

Numbers for most frequent journey to and from Edinburgh gateway culled from a power point linked below. annual , daily EDINBURGH GATEWAY INVERKEITHING 49,806, 158 EDINBURGH GATEWAY KIRKCALDY 32,798, 104 EDINBURGH GATEWAY DALMENY 28,403, 90 EDINBURGH GATEWAY DUNDEE 24,923, 79 EDINBURGH...

As some of the services that go beyond Dunblane will still be diesel powered they can't say all services will be quicker and have to say some.

An important consideration is not just building the tracks to Levemouth etc but what other infrastructure capacity will be required for trains to form part of a service from there to Edinburgh. Creating more capacity for these trains might be expensive unless other services can be modified...