Leuchars Station – 21st Aug 2019
I took these pictures at Leuchars station after arriving on an Inter7City train from Edinburgh.
I didn’t stay log as I was running late and needed to get to Edinburgh for my train home.
My reason for going to Leuchars was to look at the proposed St. Andrews Rail Link.
This Google Map shows the position of St. Andrews in relation to Leuchars station.
Leuchasrs station is in the North-West corner of the map, with St. Andrews in the South-East.
It looks like most of the route has been dismantled or built on and it might not be the easiest route to reinstate.
Wikipedia says this about an alternative plan.
The original reinstatement plan espoused by StARLink was simply a reestablishment of the historical Leuchars – St Andrews line but since the publication in 2012 of a report by Tata Steel Rail Consultancy StARLink now advocates an entirely new 21st-century layout with a twin-cord high-speed rail link travelling west and southwards via Cupar and northwards via Leuchars. StARLink has estimated that the railway could be reinstated for £76 million.
I am rather suspicious of the low value of the costing.
What ouzzled me at Leuchars was that there were no signs that I saw, telling visitors how to get St. Andrews.
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