On Friday I was travelling down to Stirling from Aberdeen, which luckily was a refurb HST. Brake problems with the front power car resutled in a 25 minute delay, with all passengers heading to stations to Dundee told to board the Edinburgh service trailing us, as we were being made express all the way to Dundee - thus skipping Stoney, Montrose, and Arbroath.
With a clear run in front of us, we made Dundee in 58 minutes (providing I was counting correctly!), and if it weren't for a slow departure out of Aberdeen, it could have been even less.
As the title says, given Aberdeen to Dundee could be achieved in under an hour even at the behest of the current infrastructure, as opposed to it's usual hour and 10 minutes, what is the quickest time theoretically possible between Aberdeen and Glasgow - or for that matter, Edinburgh - under the current parameters of the infrastructure?
You can do Dundee to Perth in 20 minutes at best, and Perth to Glasgow in 55 minutes at their quickest diagramed runs. If Perth was sorted out track alignment wise along with Greenhill Junction, what's to say you could get Glasgow to Aberdeen down to the 2 hour mark? Or is this pushing it? As a regular on this route, I dare say it could be done both with or without these two projects.
Bombing it down the coast to Dundee in under an hour, which is a rarity, has certainly got me thinking.
With a clear run in front of us, we made Dundee in 58 minutes (providing I was counting correctly!), and if it weren't for a slow departure out of Aberdeen, it could have been even less.
As the title says, given Aberdeen to Dundee could be achieved in under an hour even at the behest of the current infrastructure, as opposed to it's usual hour and 10 minutes, what is the quickest time theoretically possible between Aberdeen and Glasgow - or for that matter, Edinburgh - under the current parameters of the infrastructure?
You can do Dundee to Perth in 20 minutes at best, and Perth to Glasgow in 55 minutes at their quickest diagramed runs. If Perth was sorted out track alignment wise along with Greenhill Junction, what's to say you could get Glasgow to Aberdeen down to the 2 hour mark? Or is this pushing it? As a regular on this route, I dare say it could be done both with or without these two projects.
Bombing it down the coast to Dundee in under an hour, which is a rarity, has certainly got me thinking.
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