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Easier but not easy. The Fife line runs to the east of the existing airport runway 06/24 and no construction would be allowed to restrict the potential for a second runway. When I did the EISL plans a decade ago it included the prospective second runway and the proposal then avoided tunnelling...

The original report looking at a range of options for both Glasgow and Edinburgh airports is here: https://www.eisl.org.uk/download/SKMFinalReport.pdf Pages 10 and 11 have diagrams of the options including two spur options (EA5 and EA7) And if you really can't sleep one night, try reading the...

Building the Dalmeny Chord will pretty much kill off any chance of a proper on-airport station for Edinburgh. The ideas set out in the EISL paper, and the original EARL proposals, all had an airport station. They also proposed track layouts that more than fulfilled the requirements of the...

Options for a heavy rail link to the airport were discussed in 2007 when EARL was cancelled. This website presented a couple of options that were designed to meet the objections that the Scottish Government put forward at the time: https://www.eisl.org.uk

Some history here: https://www.eisl.org.uk/index.htm I created that website a decade ago, when the Scottish Government cancelled the EARL rail connection to Edinburgh Airport. I suggested a couple of alternatives that might have addressed the Government's stated concerns. The website has not...