weekend travel scotland

[a22book]

Hello,

I was led to belive that the west coast mainline upgrade had finished.

However I cannot find any weekend driect services from warrington bank quay to edinburgh. there is a replacement bus service.

does anyone know why?

or is the WCML not finished?

thanks

 

[Mcr Warrior]

:roll: Rail replacement buses operating between Lockerbie and Oxenholme every weekend up to and including 22nd March 2009, I believe, maybe longer.

 

[voyagerdude220]

you're certainly right, and to make things worse, Virgin aren't bothering with diverting many services over the S&C, to minimise essential coaches to just Carlisle to Lockerbie..

There are only 2 diverted services each way, on Saturdays, and none at all on Sundays .. :roll:

I am aware that the S&C is infact closed on some Sundays during the WCML works, but certainly not all..

 

[Pumbaa]

Basically they're all lying - the WCML is far from finished.

 

[djw1981]

IIRC the WCRM plan was only to finish England. The Scottish work is just usual renewals and suchlike. There are few diversions via G&SW as well, whoich is interesting given the role that Polmadie is playing in the Virgin maintenance regime (see recent RAIL article) for cl 57, 221 & 390.