Date: 01/02/2019

Plans for a rail link from Glasgow city centre to the airport has been ditched for the second time. Ten years after the original Glasgow Airport Rail Link was scrapped, plans to replace the current tram-train proposal with a rapid transit system between the airport and Paisley have been unveiled instead. The leaders of Glasgow and Renfrewshire councils met with Transport Secretary Michael Matheson and airport bosses on the Executive Steering Group this week and agreed to look at a new proposal. Work is now to start on preparing a business case for a Personal Rapid Transit system, which has been branded a 'toytown solution'.

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Airport rail link plan axed again

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PLANS for a rail link from Glasgow city centre to the airport has been ditched “ for the second time.

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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

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

A Gourock - Glasgow Central service formed by 334 040 makes a stop at Paisley St James on 28 July 2008. This station is to be eventually closed and a replacement built further east as part of the changes resulting from construction of the Glasgow Airport Rail Link.
Location: Paisley St James
Company: Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Railway
28/07/2008 David Panton