Date: 07/01/2016

The major tourism boost the recently restored rail links to Edinburgh has brought the Borders has sparked off renewed demands for direct trains between Lanark and the capital.
These services - up to eight a day at one time - last ran in the mid-Sixties before being axed on economic grounds.
Now a new campaign has been launched to persuade the Scottish Government, ScotRail and Network Rail that, in 2016, it would be well worth restoring the 35 mile direct link - and it could all be done at a small fraction of the £294m the Borders project cost.

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The 11.40 Glasgow Central - London Euston heads away from the former Silvermuir Junction on 19 March.
Location: Silvermuir Junction
Company: Caledonian Railway
19/03/2015 Bill Roberton

Don't even think about it! A southbound Pendolino speeds south over Cleghorn level crossing near Lanark on 24 May 2007.
Location: Cleghorn
Company: Caledonian Railway
24/05/2007 John Furnevel

View north at Silvermuir South Junction in 2000. The Glasgow fork is to the left and the trackbed of the Edinburgh fork to the right. [Ref query 8859]
Location: Silvermuir South Junction
Company: Lanark Branch (Caledonian Railway)
//2000 Ewan Crawford

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