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.
Author: Lawrence Marshall
The Future of Waverley Station
Transport Scotland, Network Rail and the City of Edinburgh Council are currently consulting on their “Preferred Masterplan Strategy” for Waverley Station.
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.
Free up road space – take the bus!
Lothian Buses highlight the road space required by cars compared with a bus