Airdrie to Bathgate
Modern Railways also has an article about the opening of a new electric railway between Airdrie and Bathgate, which effectively creates a fourth link across Scotland’s central belt between the two main cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow.
I’ve read the article in detail and it states that a new station is being built at Drumgelloch to serve just 3,700 local inhabitants. This really shows how different rules starve East Anglian stations of money. Bury St. Edmunds for example has a population of 35,000 and the best thing that could be said about the station is that it compliments the Abbey Ruins. Haverhill has a population of 22,000 and no train station at all.
I think East Anglia could take a leaf out of Scotland’s book and reinstate the line between Sudbury and Cambridge. But that will never get done in my lifetime, despite the fact it could probably be done for a lot less than Airdrie to Bathgate.
The only thing we get is other areas’ hand-me-downs and a virtual busway.
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Hi. Where did the Princes Street tram coffee bar story come from?
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Comment by Alastair Dalton | October 24, 2010 |
I’ve had a couple of strokes and my memory sometimes plays tricks with me! But in this case it didn’t! I just thought it was a funny joke, as I like to ridicule bad project management. There’s an argument about what is worse the Edinburgh Tram or the Cambridge Busway! At least your tram doesn’t have a sign on saying “I’ll be on the tramway soon!”, but there are buses going round Cambridge saying “I’ll be on the busway soon!” or things even more sarcastic!
Did you see this post?
https://anonw.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/an-exhilirating-ride/
It was truly a trip of a lifetime.
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