The Anonymous Widower

Will Glasgow Ever Get Crossrail?

I have a Google Alert for Grossrail and occasionally it picks up an article for Glasgow Crossrail, like this comment in The Scotsman entitled Glasgow Crossrail: Will the ‘missing link’ be built?

If you look at the major cities in the UK, many have cross-city links tying the railways on both sides of the city together.

London has several.

• Thameslink
• The East, North and West London Lines
• The Gospel Oak to Barking Line

A major East-West link in Crossrail is being built and another Crossrail 2 is being planned.

Except for Manchester, where the Ordsall Chord is being built, I don’t know of a major city in England, where services are disconnected across the city.

In the last few years, I’ve walked across Glasgow a couple of times to connect between the South and East.

As a Sassenach, I can’t understand, why the Glassgow Crossrail is not given a high priority by the Scottish Government.

Perhaps the reason, is that one of the groups that would benefit most, would be English travellers  arriving in Glasgow, who wanted to go North to places like Inverness, Aberdeen and Fort William.

Or could it be those old friends of the railways: the airlines, are lobbying against it, as it would allow services direct from Aberdeen and Inverness to Manchester?

November 7, 2015 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Glasgow, Trains