Rail route aims to turn back time (BBC News)
 

Work progresses on reopening a Scottish rail route which saw its last trains run exactly 40 years ago.

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Can't wait. It is a route I never travel so look forward to 2013.

Best wishes,

John H-T.

The more lines reopened the Better.

Totally agree, fair play to forward thinking Scottish polititions, the trouble is now, with 'credit crunches' and recessions looming, it will be an easy excuse to 'delay' or scrap more schemes...i hope not.

Hopefully in the future they will extend the line back to Hawick which is one of Britains largest towns without a railway station.:cool:

Nonsense !

I admit it's not far off being the largest town in Scotland without a railway station, though I would think Kirkintilloch, St Andrews, Peterhead and Grangemouth are all larger.

but in England there are some much bigger places without a railway station. Even if we don't count dudley (since Dudley Port is only a mile away). Just off the top of my head I can think of Leigh, Ripon, Washington, Peterlee, Ilkeston, Swadlincote, Abingdon and Newport (IOW).

Midland compound, good point about Scotland, although I am using a slightly wider definition of large than maybe you are . From something I read in a local government study a couple of years ago there is reckoned to be about 80-100 towns large enough to support a rail line that don't have one. Hawick was certainly on that list.

Hopefully though in due course they will extend to Hawick.

I think the point about Hawick is that, while by no means being the only town without a station, it holds the distinction of being the *furthest* from a station. Unless I have it wrong... wouldn't be the first time!

Midland Compound I think Coalville is larger than Swadlincote & it still has a line but no station

1. you may be right about Hawick being "furthest" from a station, though will change if/when the line reaches Galashiels. [ What would be the furthest then ? Peterhead ? I assume Lerwick doesn't count !]

2. actually I think Gosport is larger than any of the ones I posted for England.

All the best

Martin