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If you're planning on travelling by train over the festive period, here's everything you need to know.
(Permalink) Boxing Day Christmas Day Christmas Eve ScotRail Timetable |
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The senior politician has welcomed ScotRail's new winter timetable which brings in seven extra trains on the Inverclyde line, creating ahalf-hourly service on Sundays.
(Permalink) Greenock Inverclyde ScotRail Timetable |
MSP Stuart McMillan says he is pleased that ScotRail are making moves to introduce an extra hourly service on the Wemyss Bay rail line having campaigned for it for five years.
(Permalink) Timetable Wemyss Bay |
Glasgow councillors have urged ScotRail to restore services on the Cathcart Circle lines.
(Permalink) Cathcart Circle Timetable |
The total number of services running from Inverurie to Aberdeen is to be reduced, but Scotrail have still to make new timetables publicly available.
(Permalink) Aberdeen Inverurie Timetable Inverurie: The 13.33 service for Aberdeen waiting to leave Inverurie on 8 August 2014. Inverurie: 158736, on a short working from Aberdeen, waits at Inverurie before returning there. View north from the road overbridge at the south end of the station. |
Passengers warned of fewer services and more crowded trains as rail firm seeks to reset its operations. Rail passengers in the north have been warned of fewer services and potentially more crowded trains after TransPennine Express said it would cut its timetable further in December. About 20 services a day between Leeds and Manchester will be taken out of the schedule as the firm seeks to reset its struggling operations.
(Permalink) Timetable TransPennine Express 'Northern Powerhouse' |
An enthusiast has slammed a proposed new timetable and claimed that it will take Wemyss Bay back to the age of steam.
(Permalink) Timetable Wemyss Bay Wemyss Bay: 385 102 at platform 1, resting from overnight driver training duties. 314209 waits to form the 11.57 to Glasgow Central. 20 October. Wemyss Bay: Fairburn 2-6-4T no 42245, sporting a 66D (Greenock Ladyburn) shedplate, brings a train into Wemyss Bay on a murky March afternoon in 1963. |
ScotRail are holding a public consultation on a proposed new timetable for services between Edinburgh, Fife, and the Tay Cities, including services to the new stations at Cameron Bridge and Leven.
As the Levenmouth Rail Link reopens, ScotRail are taking the opportunity to propose changes to the timetable that will benefit people across Fife, based on feedback received from customers and stakeholders. (Permalink) Cameron Bridge Dundee Edinburgh Fife Leven Levenmouth Line Perth ScotRail Timetable |
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Debate over whether the number of passenger trains should be reduced, to provide more capacity for freight, has been accentuated by the pandemic.
(Permalink) Railfreight Timetable |
As part of our vision to support thriving, connected, and resilient communities and destinations that are great places to live, work, and visit, we are holding a public consultation on a proposed new timetable for services between Edinburgh, Fife, and the Tay Cities. This includes services to the new stations at Cameron Bridge and Leven. The consultation opens on Monday, 11 September 2023, and will be available until Monday, 23 October 2023.
(Permalink) Cameron Bridge Edinburgh Fife Leven Tay Timetable Leven: A crossover was being installed on 30 August 2023, just short of Leven station. Leven: Job done. Track has been laid to the platform ends at Leven with a continuous line of rails from Thornton North Junction. A crossover remains to be inserted. 19 August 2023
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The rail operator is making changes to its current timetable, and there's good news for commuters in Aberdeenshire on the route to Montrose as more services are being added.
(Permalink) Aberdeen Montrose ScotRail Timetable Montrose: A terminating service from Aberdeen prepares to run into the siding at Montrose to turn back on 2 October 2019. I would have said it disgorged but there was hardly anyone on it all the way. However I ... |
Villagers have raised concerns over the loss of a direct train.
(Permalink) Dunfermline Kirkcaldy North Queensferry Timetable North Queensferry: The new Edinburgh - Perth shuttle service, comprising a partially re-liveried First Scotrail 158, reaches the north shore of the Forth on 28 March. |
Ferry users on Mull and Iona say they have negotiated a better winter timetable than the one they were initially being offered.
(Permalink) Caledonian MacBrayne Iona Mull Timetable |