A new campaign has been launched to reopen Edinburgh’s South Sub rail line with tram trains which could also run on the city’s tramlines.
Supporters say services on the rail line – where regular passenger services were scrapped in 1962 – could then link into the proposed new North-South tramline from Granton to the Royal Infirmary and beyond.
And they believe the plan to use tram trains makes the idea of bringing the South Sub back into operation more practical than ever before.
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.
Transport Scotland, Network Rail and the City of Edinburgh Council are currently consulting on their “Preferred Masterplan Strategy” for Waverley Station.
On 26 March 2019 Transport Scotland published their plans for Scotland’s railway for the next 5 years – starting on 01 April 2019.
Lothian Buses highlight the road space required by cars compared with a bus