GARL - Third track between Glasgow and Paisley

[PhilipW]

How is this third track going to be operated ? At what times of day is it going to be used for inbound and outbound services ?

Even at peak hours I would have thought that the amount of of inbound and outbound traffic has to be about the same, so I have difficulty in understanding how this third track will be used.

I presume they have their reasons but I would have thought restoring 4 tracks would have been better. At least one can understand how they would operate.

 

[me123]

The new middle line is bi-directional. Drawings can be seen here. I assume that the fast trains will overtake slower trains between Glasgow and Paisley; trains running non-stop to Paisley can overtake the ones calling at Cardonald et al. That's just a guess though.

Why not 4 tracks? Again, it's a guess, but probably a constraint of the space available. They wouldn't want to reconstruct Cardonald, Hillington East and Hillington West stations if they could avoid it.