Date: 04/07/2012

Plans have been announced to electrify the Glasgow's Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley train route - cutting 10 minutes from journey times. The £650m upgrade will deliver longer trains equipped with WiFi in a move that could create hundreds of new jobs. Queen Street Station will be revamped and a new station will see services connect to Edinburgh Airport. Cumbernauld line services will also be electrified ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

External links

Intercity rail journey to be cut

BBC News

Plans are announced to electrify the Glasgow's Queen Street to Edinburgh Waverley train route, cutting 10 minutes from journey times.

Related images

A look across the platforms at Queen Street on 14 August. As can be seen this is very much Class 170 territory (as opposed to Glasgow Central where they're unknown). Usually however one or both of the other two DMU classes in Scotland is around somewhere, with 156s forming all WHL services, and 158s the usual fare on the Maryhill line.
Location: Glasgow Queen Street High Level
Company: Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
14/08/2010 David Panton

Good places not to have a points failure - no. 59 Polmont Junction. A Glasgow Queen Street - Edinburgh Waverley shuttle passing at speed on 7 August 2007.
Location: Polmont Junction
Company: Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
07/08/2007 John Furnevel

Black 5 no 44698 arrives at Cumbernauld station in August 1965 with a train for Glasgow.
Location: Cumbernauld
Company: Caledonian Railway
03/08/1965 G W Robin