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So my line remains bottom of the food chain. Drat!

Anyone wanting to know how the composition of the fleet will change should go to page 21: http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/system/files/documents/tsc-basic-pages/Redacted%20Franchise%20Agreement%20-%20CU%20version.pdf

Good to see earlier boarding times: Edinburgh-Euston: changed from 2300 to 2100. Glasgow-Euston: from 2200 to 2100. Aberdeen-Euston: from 2110 to 2000. Euston-Edinburgh: from 2300 to 2145. Euston-Glasgow: from 2300 to 2145.

East Renfrewshire Council is planning to spend £11.5m in 2018/19 on the new station at Barrhead South (page 6 of summary): http://www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=13708&p=0

It appears Abellio is considering funding some passing loops on the Highland Mainline over and above what Network Rail was planning. The NR work has a budget of £120m up to 2019 according to this...

It would cost the same as the combined bill for the Queensferry Crossing, M74 Completion, Borders Rail, M8 Completion and M80 Stepps to Haggs, five of the biggest schemes undertaken by Transport Scotland since it's inception 9 years ago. I'd still love to see it happen though.

Scottish Government Ministers are very keen because they believe Scotland would become less attractive to investors if it missed out compared with those English regional cities which were connected. I don't know what the general population in Scotland think about HS2 but the few people I've...

I was thinking 20 years until the next one....

I don't think a cross border high speed line will be built or even started before the next referendum so it's probably a moot point.

Altnabreac, re the timing of the introduction of rolling stock, according to Abellio the HST's will be phased in from the middle of 2018: http://www.abellio.com/scotrail-passenger-story/true-intercity-railway-network-scotland And the Hitachi trains from the middle of 2017...

Scottish Labour Commits to funding Glasgow Crossrail http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-31298277

I note 83m within Scotland. The 2003 Scottish Strategic Rail Study projected 98m by 2020 under a high resource scenario, which entailed building major infrastructure schemes such as EARL, GARL, Aberdeen Crossrail, both versions of Glasgow Crossrail (tunnel and City Union line); re-opening St...

The next 10 years will be about improving intercity connections. Then it'll be Glasgow's turn to get some serious rail investment to address the terminal capacity issue. 15-20 years for Hawick I reckon.

The new facade planned for QS is much higher quality than Haymarket going by the renders.

Probably build a tunnel linking the north and south networks.

They are future proofing the redevelopment for a potential new platform. There's a buffer zone where no structural work will take place to allow for platform 8 to be built. Network Rail say this platform is not needed at the moment but may be required under certain projected growth scenarios.

Did Network Rail ever explain why they dropped the original plan for a footbridge running east / west above the platforms? It seemed like a good way to reduce congestion at the main gate lines.

Just going back to the issue of increased journey times if diverting services via the City Union line to Queen St LL, I was reading SPT's Memorandum in support of the original GARL (as you do) and it stated the journey time to Central would be 15 mins compared with 21 mins for Queen St LL via...

Considering the huge cost of the new hospital (£850m) and the fact that it will employ 10,000 people it seems absurd that public transport provision will be decided solely by privately owned bus companies. --- old post above --- --- new post below --- If the Busby-EK section was double...

Would serving two terminals be a bad thing? I work 5 mins walk from Queen St and 15 mins from Central. I live in the south side but the long walk from Central puts me off so I get the bus instead. If there was a direct train to QS I'd switch to that.