Building a station in the middle of nowhere and not having a good selection of connecting buses running from opening day seems criminal If they want to allege that the station serves any public transport purpose at all there needs to be a St Abbs - Eyemouth bus and a Duns bus.Will only be one train per day each way from TransPennine Express however when they are on strike.
58 years since the last train left, the 0621 to Newcastle departs from Reston station bound for Newcastle. #ScotlandsRailway
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Any real passengers though?
A bus to Duns would surely be a huge waste of money, almost nobody would use it? Reston and Eyemouth are very small in population and the train service is very infrequent. The people of Duns would far rather have a handful of extra services to Berwick-upon-Tweed surely.
They could probably have found something useful to spend £20m on too, instead of a station. If a bus costs £120k to run per year....
This was from the Scotrail temporary timetable thread. Apologies if already covered, but what exactly is TS paying for given the service was running anyway? Are they paying only the additional operating costs (including any net lost revenue) due to the extra time in the schedules?
The service between Edinburgh and Newcastle had been withdrawn for passengers, and was just a handful of empty stock movements. These were turned into passenger services and added additional round trips. Now some additional Edinburgh - Berwick-upon-Tweed services have also been added.
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Yes - looks like around 250+ homes zoned for around the station. https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/896/reston.pdf
Good news. Hopefully the new station will have a knock on positive effect in places like Ayton, Coldingham, Eyemouth. While not totally isolated from the rail network (Berwick Upon-Tweed not being that far away). Having been down to visit St Abbs aka New Asgard and Eyemouth, it's a nice part of the world to visit and would prefer to visit these spots again by train and a good connecting bus service, rather than a tiring journey down the A1.
Is there any particular reason why Scotrail managing stations their trains don’t call at is undesirable?
I wonder what the car ownership of prospective new residents will be and also will the railway station meet the travelling needs for locations of work for them.
TPE do not have a nearby local management structure so probably couldn't even if they wanted to. LNER, Northern and Avanti West Coast all do, but so do ScotRail. Therefore for political reasons, ScotRail will manage the stations. Dunbar used to be managed by the East Coast franchisee but no longer. It transferred to ScotRail when the Department awarded the contract to Virgin Trains East Coast.
Given the very low frequency of the bus and train services from the station I would imagine that household car access will be much higher than average. Close to 100%.
... and, currently, Dunbar (albeit that's supposed to be a temporary situation). If the people who look after the station are nearby, it's much more efficient than having a team slogging out to it miles from anywhere else they look after. Someone has to have responsibility for any given station and it makes a lot more sense for it to be Scotrail in this case.
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20,000 per annum
Isn't that fairly achievable if we extrapolate the (admittedly anecdotal) numbers in this thread? A lot of people here seem dead against the station, but if it meets the forecasts I don't see the issue. More access to rail is a good thing.
Reston has (presently) 102 calls per week. So you only need 3 or 4 travellers per train to/from Reston to nominally meet the target.
