Borders

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MPs back Waverley Route reopening

MPs back Borders reopening

25 May

ScotRail 158869 stands at Tweedbank on November 25 2015. RICHARD CLINNICK.

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Carlisle councillors back Borders re-opening plans

Campaigners and councillors join forces to back Borders plans

5 Sept

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Report presses commercial case for extended Borders link

New report by the Campaign for Borders Rail (CBR) makes the case for re-opening the line from Tweedbank to Mossband Junction.

30 May

ScotRail 158741 heads out from Bowshank Tunnel on August 10, with the 0753 Edinburgh Waverley-Tweedbank. PHIL METCALFE.

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Train failures and crew shortages hit Borders operation

Reliability problems with ScotRail Class 158s and shortages of traincrew combine to hit performance on the Edinburgh-Tweedbank Borders Railway.

30 Aug

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Campaigners hit out at “pessimistic” forecasts

Campaigners seeking to re-open Thornton North Junction-Methil line say “ludicrously pessimistic” passenger forecasts could threaten that and similar projects.

27 Jun

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‘Summer of steam’ planned for Borders Railway

Steam locomotives will return to the Borders Railway every Sunday from August 7 to September 25.

15 Jun

ScotRail 158869 at Tweedbank on November 25 2015. RICHARD CLINNICK.

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Borders Railway smashes forecast passenger figures

The Borders Railway has beaten traffic forecasts by 22%, with almost 700,000 passengers travelling on the route in its first six months of operation.

1 Jun

60103 Flying Scotsman near Heriot on May 15. PA PHOTOS.

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Carne orders inquiry after Network Rail's Flying Scotsman Borders debacle

Network Rail Chief Executive Mark Carne to launch investigation into gauge clearance problems that almost prevented Flying Scotsman running on Borders line .

21 May

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Campaigners call for Borders Railway improvements

The Campaign for Borders Rail is urging better trains and more reliable infrastructure on the new Edinburgh-Tweedbank railway following failures in April.

11 May

158869 at Tweedbank on November 25. RICHARD CLINNICK.

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Borders Railway patronage exceeds forecast figures

More than half a million passengers have used the £353 million Borders Railway since it re-opened in September last year.

4 Feb

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VIDEO: Borders Railway interview with ScotRail

Interview with Rob Shorthouse of ScotRail, in regards to the volume of passengers on the Borders Railway and the overcrowding and cancellation issues

28 Oct

Feature

Waverley Line…next stop Carlisle?

RAIL looks at the prospects for extending the old Waverley route all the way southwards to Carlisle

Major projects 30 Sept

Feature

Borders railway: a game-changing project

Everyone’s a winner with the newly re-opened stretch of Borders railway - but it was hard work for the campaigners and the contractors who built the railway

Major projects 16 Sept