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Rail links between two Lanarkshire areas could be improved after a plea from local politicians to the government's transport minister.

Jenny Gilruth has asked Transport Scotland to raise an ongoing local rail issue with Scotrail and SPT regarding a direct train service from Newton to Uddingston.

There are currently no direct services between the two stations, despite a rail line running by both stations.
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Uddingston: A Lanark service calls at Uddingston on 24 August 2019. Uddingston is the home of the Tunnock's factory. Their products are popular surely only for sentimental reasons. This can only be haggis's appea ...
David Panton 24/08/2019


Newton: A Larkhall to Dalmuir service at Newton on 8 September 2018. The long-disused signal box seems destined to lower over the western end of the station forever.
David Panton 08/09/2018

P6 children at St Charles Primary have been out meeting their community as part of the project.
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The brother of a train driver killed in Scotland's worst train crash for three decades and who had followed him into the railways today laid a wreath to mark the 30th anniversary of the disaster.
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It was the horrific head-on rail crash in which four people died which led to safety improvements across the country.
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Newton West Junction: Fossil fuel express changing the climate locally on 10th December 2015.
Colin McDonald 10/12/2015

On Sunday, 21 July 1991, at 21.55, two trains crashed on a single track at a junction just west of Newton railway station in Cambuslang, near Glasgow.

The collision killed the two drivers and two passengers and injured 22 more people.

Today, (Wednesday, 21 July), a short commemoration service at Newton station took place, led by Railway Chaplain, Graham Whitehead. Stuart Scott, brother of driver David Scott who was killed, also said a few words.
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Multiple train routes from Glasgow Queen Street and Glasgow Central are seeing 'major disruptions' due to the snow.
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Pigeons who were trapped under a bridge at a Glasgow train station have been described as a traumatising sight by a father.
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