Date: 26/10/2017

Railway travel in Scotland is undergoing something of a renaissance, with passenger numbers growing and 14 new or rebuilt stations opening in the last decade. The question now is whether the clamour for additional stations can be satisfied given the limited funding available and a political machinery stretched by the UKs planned exit from the European Union. Last week, trains passed through the new station in Forres for the first time - a replacement for the Moray towns Victorian transport hub, built as part of an on-going project to increase capacity and improve journey times to below two hours on the line between Inverness and Aberdeen. Across Scotland, there are numerous proposals - with varying degrees of official backing - for towns and villages to be connected to the rail network. They have been inspired by the success of the partly reopened Borders railway - which added seven stations along a 30 mile route from Edinburgh to Tweedbank - and earlier projects such as the £300m Airdrie-Bathgate link, completed in 2010.

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Can the demand for new railway stations in Scotland be met?

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Railway travel in Scotland is undergoing something of a renaissance, with passenger numbers growing and 14 new or rebuilt stations opening in the last decade.

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J37 No 64569 meets a photographic scrum at the south end of St Andrews station during the 1965 RCTS Fife Coast railtour. The J37 had taken over from No 256 Glen Douglas at Leuchars Junction and took the train round the Fife Coast line before handing back to no 256 at Thornton Junction.
Location: St Andrews [2nd]
Company: Anstruther and St Andrews Railway
28/08/1965 G W Robin

NBL Type 2 no D6141 about to take the 3.15pm train for Aberdeen out of Fraserburgh station in September 1963. Fraserburgh locomotive shed stands on the left.
Location: Fraserburgh
Company: Formartine and Buchan Railway
02/09/1963 K A Gray

J35 0-6-0 64478 at Cameron Bridge in the early 1960s. The locomotive was eventually withdrawn from Carlisle Canal shed in August 1962 and cut up at Inverurie Works 4 months later. Platform view west towards Thornton Junction.
Location: Cameron Bridge
Company: Leven Railway
// Andy Carr Collection