£139m funding for East Kilbride rail improvements is given green light [Daily Record]





Date: 11/09/2023

Benefits for the town include electrification of the rail route and a relocated accessible station at Hairmyres. [Announcement made on the 6th.]


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Plans to relocate Hairmyres station have moved closer as Scotland’s Railway, South Lanarkshire Council and Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) have agreed to fund and develop an expanded transport interchange. Hairmyres concept drawing issued in July 2021. [The station will be further 600 metres further west at Redwood Avenue. Here it appears to have two platforms, suggesting the Hairmyres Loop may be extended? - RS.]
Location: Hairmyres
Company: Busby Railway
/07/2021 Network Rail


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