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I very rarely had any reason to use the Waverley steps or the escalators until the Borders railway opened in 2015. I can't say I've really noticed them being out of order that often, although I usually use the steps anyway because it's quicker and I like the exercise. Today one of the six...

Shawfair - 27.6k for 21/22, a half hourly service on stike days.

Was it expected to remove cars from Sherrifhall? Borderers have always known how to avoid Sherrifhall, ie stay on the 'real' A7 (now A772) if going to Edinburgh or to the west bound city bypass, or use the A68 for Leith or the east bound bypass. I regularly take the train from Gala to Perth...

The A720 'tunnel' was built longer than necessary to allow for slip roads to be added to the Sherrifhall roundabout.

...And the 132KV continues under the trackbed of the down line of the Waverley route past Tweedbank Station. The Borders railway had to be shifted a couple of metres northwards from the old route to avoid the expense of moving the electric cable.

Conspicuous by their absence from appendix D are Moncrieffe Tunnel and the Tay viaduct in Perth.

Kerse Road, A905, Stirling? Built 1968, demolished 2018 according to this article - https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/below-ground-work-kerse-road-12805756

Well for a start they could run the trains into or out of a barriered platform at Waverley, instead of using platform 1 half the time which is a PITA to get to or from. A 4 car 158 would have done or better still go back to the half hour timetable with either 2 car 158s or 3 car 170s. It...

I've been on 12 Scotrail services so far this week, a return trip with a £12 club 50 card from Tweebank to Stranraer (4 services each way) and another £12 return trip Tweedbank to Perth (2 services each way). These were all off peak services. Three of them, all on the Borders railway, had...

Three viaducts local to me that haven't been mentioned yet, all long since closed. 1. Neithpath viaduct west of Peebles on the long since closed Caledonian line to Symington on the WCML. Curved skewed ashlar masonry arches with all of the stones being different shapes. Ornate parapets. 2...

One thing I don't recall noticing when I skimmed the report is why the train had to return to Stonehaven on the down line. Shortly after it had been brought to a stand by the GSMR call the whole network was FUBAR and nothing was moving south of Carmont or north of Stonehaven. Rather than wait...

The earthworks look single width from LIDAR surveys, which are available on the NLS website. Here's the cutting south east of Thorntonhall -

An average of 4.8 people killed every day on the roads. An average of 6.4 people killed every year by falling trees. Yet he latter seems to cause more concern than the former. We're a very strange country at times.

There was a proposal to reopen the Border Counties line from Kielder to Riccarton, and from there a reopened Waverley line to Longtown, for the purposes of timber extraction but I don't recall ever hearing of plans to go via Reedsmouth. The actual traffic on the Borders line pre-covid was one...

The automatic announcements got Stow wrong for ages after the Borders line opened. It rhymes with now, not with slow.

The passengers who use the line regularly don't care about the views. We just want trains with enough seats that can do more than 40mph up Borthwick Bank.

Newcraighall predates the Borders railway, it was opened in 2002 in a scheme known as Edinburgh Crossrail. It was built as a park and ride but also serves a nearby retail park. The old Eskbank Station is now a private house and had no room for a car park. The new Eskbank is also closer to...

If so they failed utterly with those projections as the car park was overflowing from the start and had to be extended after only two years. One of the reasons for the popularity of Tweedbank is it's the start of the line so the chances of getting a seat are better. I've only once had to...

I had my first post lockdown trip on the Borders line a fortnight ago. Just like the old days of five years ago it was a two car 158, not even standing room by departure time (15:24) from Waverley. This was from platform 1 so no ticket barrier and it was too crammed for the guard to make an...

£135k fine for doing nothing? Upthread we're being told someone would be jailed for that. And given the price of work on the railway £135k wouldn''t go very far, I wouldn't be surprised if they've spent more than that on the CCTV etc.