Industry coalition backs Borders Railway extension
Jim Steer, High Speed Rail Group. Jim Steer, director of industry coalition the High Speed Rail Group, has reiterated its support for extension of the…
Scotland
Work starts to reopen Levenmouth line
Work is starting to reconnect Leven, in Fife, Scotland, to the national rail network as Network Rail begins to clear vegetation on the Levenmouth line….
Borders Railway – five years on
Five years to the day since Her Majesty The Queen opened the Borders Railway between Edinburgh, Midlothian, and Tweedbank in the Scottish Borders on 9…
Preparatory works underway for East Kilbride electrification
Ground investigation works are underway for the East Kilbride Corridor Improvement programme. This aims to improve the line so that four eight-car trains an hour…
Scotland on track to develop greener railways
Scottish Enterprise, Scotland’s national economic development agency, is behind a series of projects designed to find more environmentally friendly train and track solutions, as well…
Railway remembers Stonehaven
Stations around Scotland, as well as elsewhere in the UK, fell silent on Wednesday 19 August 2020 to remember those who lost their lives and…
Edinburgh-Glasgow line closed for two months after canal breaches its banks, severely damaging railway
When Scotland’s Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal, which runs between Falkirk and Edinburgh, breached its bank at Muiravonside on the morning of Wednesday 12 August,…
Reactions to the fatal accident at Carmont
Following the fatal train crash near Stonehaven in Scotland, a number of people have either visited the scene or commented on their reaction to the…
RAIB issues first report into accident at Stonehaven
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released its first report on the train crash at Carmont, near Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, in which three people died….
Network Rail to inspect dozens of sites with higher-risk trackside slopes
Before he left the site of the fatal train crash at Carmont, near Stonehaven in Scotland, Network Rail chief executive Andrew Haines addressed the speculation…