CRAG chairman, Lawrence Marshall, responded to the December 2020 consultation
Category: current-news
‘First of a kind’ ground breaking model helps to fund the reopening of UK rail line.
Northumberland Line to re-open using E-Rail model
Edinburgh Tram Extension to Newhaven
Work on the extensions to the tram network are well underway so follow links to the project web site for more information.
Is Pay-as-you-Drive the future?
Reform Scotland, the independent, non-partisan think-tank, has called for a revolution in how Scotland pays for its roads
Rail Travel during Covid-19
Rail Travel during the pandemic may well have been underestimated.
Flyby Videos of old Edinburgh Railways
Here are some flybys of old Edinburgh railways mapped onto a modern map of Edinburgh
More ambitious vision needed for Edinburgh to achieve modal shift
The ‘Keeping Edinburgh Moving’ report sets out a more ambitious vision for a public transport network in our city designed to deliver that vital modal shift away from car use.
Azuma Trains at Waverley
Azuma special event at Waverley Station on 31 July 2019
CRAG’s response to consultation on “The Future of Waverley Station”, 26 April 2019
Our template is Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Hauptbahnhof) – with all platforms being through running and with two major overbridges running across those running lines enabling passengers to access their desired platform in sequential order. These overbridges can also carry shops and other passenger facilities. The Calton tunnels should also be both re-doubled – they constitute an unacceptable bottleneck at the eastern approaches to the station and impose unaacceptable restrictions on train-service provision.
Scotland’s Railway (Control Period 6: 2019 – 2024)
On 26 March 2019 Transport Scotland published their plans for Scotland’s railway for the next 5 years – starting on 01 April 2019.