Date: 17/11/2017

The latest scheme to build a multi-million-pound link to Glasgow Airport has hit the buffers after experts warned it would do more economic harm than good. Local and national government officials last year threw their weight behind a £144m tram-train connection from Central Station to Abbotsinch. The scheme was a cut-price alternative to the Glasgow Airport Rail Link or GARL axed by the Scottish Government nearly a decade ago amid grave concerns over its value for money. However, now consultants hired to review the business case for the new link have queried both the proposed costs - and benefits - of the new scheme.

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The latest scheme to build a multi-million-pound link to Glasgow Airport has hit the buffers after experts warned it would do more economic harm

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A Transport Scotland sign standing alongside the playing fields near Paisley St James in October 2009. This would have seen a new viaduct constructed as part of the now scrapped Glasgow Airport Rail Link project.
Location: Paisley St James
Company: Glasgow Airport Rail Link
06/10/2009 Colin Harkins

Grand entrance. Platform 11a at Glasgow Central in Sept 2007. After removal of the buildings in the centre of the picture this platform will be realigned and rerouted through the arch and into the train shed (taking over an area currently occupied by the station car park) it will eventually become the platform used by Glasgow Airport Rail Link services. Responsibility for the GARL project was recently handed over from SPT to Transport Scotland.
Location: Glasgow Central
Company: Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway)
09/09/2007 John Furnevel

There's no visible progress at Paisley St James on the GARL project as at the end of March 2009. The new line will cross Greenhill Road by a second bridge, beyond this one, before turning north over the playing fields and M8 motorway to approach the Airport. View looks north.
Location: Paisley St James
Company: Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway
29/03/2009 Ewan Crawford