New Reston Station - Progress & Updates

[option]

Power supply needs to be upgraded at Marshall meadows before additional services can be introduced. That’s one of many reasons why the scotrail service terminates at Dunbar and TPE are diesel powered.

An Edinburgh newcastle stopper would have a market, and Reston and east Linton help justify it as well as increasing services from chathill onwards. Problem is track capacity and little if any opportunity for stoppers to be passed by Express LNER TPE and XC services. Those few loops already in place are usually occupied by freight when the 3 intercity services pass

Looks like there are Up & Down sidings at Reston, wonder if they could be turned into loops?

 

[D6130]

Looks like there are Up & Down sidings at Reston, wonder if they could be turned into loops?

If that had been possible, perhaps the platforms could have been built on the loops to allow the local services to have been overtaken at Reston. However that would have entailed a phenomenal cost increase on an already very expensive project.

 

[mcmad]

Looks like there are Up & Down sidings at Reston, wonder if they could be turned into loops?

There haven't been sidings at Reston for getting on for a decade now.

 

[option]

There haven't been sidings at Reston for getting on for a decade now.

Ah! Traksy needs an update then.

 

[takno]

Ah! Traksy needs an update then.

Quite possibly. Fairly certain the maps I used to draw that route were from 2007. Also explains some of the extremely suspect routing where it appears to be trying to send fast trains into the non-existent sidings

 

[MadMac]

Quite possibly. Fairly certain the maps I used to draw that route were from 2007. Also explains some of the extremely suspect routing where it appears to be trying to send fast trains into the non-existent sidings

Bit further north at Innerwick, it’s still shown as a Ground Switch Panel. Been directly controlled from Edinburgh since 1987!

 

[och aye]

This website has some drone footage of the construction works.

Railway stn | community

www.restonscotland.com

 

[stephen rp]

I see our my local MP - a Tory - features in the article and in the photos. This seems to be a common trait amongst Tory MPs: anything which has the slightest chance of cameras being there and they'll turn up for it.

Perhaps he should have waited until he knew there would be any trains at the station to stand in front of...

 

[DunsBus]

Perhaps he should have waited until he knew there would be any trains at the station to stand in front of...

The irony is that he's championing Reston's cause, yet he was firmly against the Borders Railway!

 

[fegguk]

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

 

[och aye]

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

Excellent to see someone doing video updates.

Network Rail have released a video of the installation of the footbridge at Reston complete with some chilled out drum and bass vibes in the background.

Video here:

Reston bridge Installation

fast.wistia.net

Press release here:

Footbridge installed at the new Reston station

Network Rail has installed a footbridge over the East Coast Mainline as part of the new £20m Reston station development.

www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk

Network Rail has installed a footbridge over the East Coast Mainline as part of the new £20m Reston station development.


The work was carried out by contractor Bam Nuttall, during an extended closure of the line with teams working around the clock during a 54-hour window, to allow the bridge sections to be craned in safely over the weekend (September 25-26).


Six sections making up the main framework of the steel bridge and lift-towers were successfully positioned beside and above the East Coast Mainline. The largest section, the main bridge span was 16 metres long and 6.5m metres and weighed more than 28 tonnes.


The bridge sections, including the main, upper and lower spans and the two lift shafts had been delivered to site under police escort from Coatbridge via the M8 and A1, before negotiating the narrow streets of Reston village to get to site.

 

[lancastrian]

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

It was good to see the video of the lift shafts and the bridges going in, although I really don't know why they need to put the annoying music over the video. I went past the Reston site in May between Alnmouth & Edinburgh as my wife & I visited Edinburgh Castle. It is good to see how thing are progressing.

 

[takno]

Excellent to see someone doing video updates.

Network Rail have released a video of the installation of the footbridge at Reston complete with some chilled out drum and bass vibes in the background.

Video here:

Reston bridge Installation

fast.wistia.net

Press release here:

Footbridge installed at the new Reston station

Network Rail has installed a footbridge over the East Coast Mainline as part of the new £20m Reston station development.

www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk

Ah, so it was Reston station that cost me an extra hundred quid and 4 hours of travel getting down to England at the weekend. Hope they did something useful on the line as well while they had it closed

 

[swt_passenger]

Ah, so it was Reston station that cost me an extra hundred quid and 4 hours of travel getting down to England at the weekend. Hope they did something useful on the line as well while they had it closed

Not necessarily, could be the other way round because the Borders section of the ECML closes at weekends for maintenance for a few weeks around this period every year. The work could have simply been inserted into an existing planned possession.

 

[Watershed]

Ah, so it was Reston station that cost me an extra hundred quid and 4 hours of travel getting down to England at the weekend. Hope they did something useful on the line as well while they had it closed

To be fair, there are ECML weekend closures every year roughly around this time, so it's not as if the possession was purely for that investment white elephant.

 

[mcmad]

looked to be at least 2 lots of track renewals going on when I drove down to Berwick at the weekend there. Just North of Grantshouse and on the coast stretch to the North of Berwick.

 

[gimmea50anyday]

The ECML blockade over this, next and last weekend is to replace the junctions at Heaton, north of Newcastle. As a result TPE 802s are being serviced on Forth Banks and stabled in the station, LNER are in Tyne Yard and Northern over in Gateshead near to the former freightliner terminal. LNER are however running diversions along the tyne valley to Carlisle and Carstairs.

 

[800001]

The ECML blockade over this, next and last weekend is to replace the junctions at Heaton, north of Newcastle. As a result TPE 802s are being serviced on Forth Banks and stabled in the station, LNER are in Tyne Yard and Northern over in Gateshead near to the former freightliner terminal. LNER are however running diversions along the tyne valley to Carlisle and Carstairs.

Lner are not using Tyne Yard, they are using Doncaster and Neville Hill.
Tyne Yard has no servicing facilities for LNER.

 

[InOban]

There's also work nearer Edinburgh - no trains to either Dunbar or North Berwick for several weekends.

 

[trebor79]

The ECML blockade over this, next and last weekend is to replace the junctions at Heaton, north of Newcastle. As a result TPE 802s are being serviced on Forth Banks and stabled in the station, LNER are in Tyne Yard and Northern over in Gateshead near to the former freightliner terminal. LNER are however running diversions along the tyne valley to Carlisle and Carstairs.

Lner are not using Tyne Yard, they are using Doncaster and Neville Hill.
Tyne Yard has no servicing facilities for LNER.

I saw at least one LNER set in Tyne Yard when I went past last Sunday.
What a shadow of its former self that place is! Even 20 years ago it was still quite extensive.

 

[Bald Rick]

There's also work nearer Edinburgh - no trains to either Dunbar or North Berwick for several weekends.

Reston station, Heaton Jn, track renewals in various places... who’d have thought that work is planned to make maximum use of the opportunity and minimise disruption to passengers.

 

[800001]

I saw at least one LNER set in Tyne Yard when I went past last Sunday.
What a shadow of its former self that place is! Even 20 years ago it was still quite extensive.

That set is stored there by Hitachi, and has been there since the cracks were discovered on Class 80xs several weeks ago

 

[och aye]

It was good to see the video of the lift shafts and the bridges going in, although I really don't know why they need to put the annoying music over the video. I went past the Reston site in May between Alnmouth & Edinburgh as my wife & I visited Edinburgh Castle. It is good to see how thing are progressing.

Not a fan of Waverley Wanderer's jingle at the end?

 

[fegguk]

Not a fan of Waverley Wanderer's jingle at the end?

Music made deliberatly badly to avoid any copy right issues.

 

[fegguk]

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

 

[och aye]

Excellent update @fegguk Judging by the video images, I think you're right in your assessement that the station won't be ready by December and Easter is a more realistic time frame.

 

[mcmad]

the station itself looks to be fairly structurally complete, copes appear to be fitted so is it only a car park and other off track works to completed? If so December 21 should be possible still.

 

[InOban]

Going by other projects it seems to take months after apparent completion for the paperwork to be put together, submitted to the ORR and operational approval granted.

 

[Baxenden Bank]

The following times are taken from Real Time Trains for Monday 13 December 2021 and give an indication of the future timetable. At this stage I have no confirmation of the actual opening date for the station. The calls are shown in the WTT (Working TimeTable) column but not in the GBTT (Great Britain TimeTable) column.

	9S07	9S09	9S12	9S16	9S21
Newcastle	0704	0919	1206	1614	2101
Reston	0811	1023	1313	1723	2208
Edinburgh	0851	1103	1348	1805	2248
	9N05	9N09	9N14	9N17	9N19
Edinburgh	0530	0933	1411	1734	1912
Reston	0617	1011	1448	1813	1950
Newcastle	0720	1119	1552	1922	2055

 

[Watershed]

The following times are taken from Real Time Trains for Monday 13 December 2021 and give an indication of the future timetable. At this stage I have no confirmation of the actual opening date for the station. The calls are shown in the WTT (Working TimeTable) column but not in the GBTT (Great Britain TimeTable) column.

	9S07	9S09	9S12	9S16	9S21
Newcastle	0704	0919	1206	1614	2101
Reston	0811	1023	1313	1723	2208
Edinburgh	0851	1103	1348	1805	2248
	9N05	9N09	9N14	9N17	9N19
Edinburgh	0530	0933	1411	1734	1912
Reston	0617	1011	1448	1813	1950
Newcastle	0720	1119	1552	1922	2055

There will also be 2 LNER services a day, 1S00 (06:22 NCL-EDB) and 1E30 (18:18 ABD-LDS).