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Newcraighall Railway Station
Newcraighall is a railway station on the Borders Railway in Scotland, which runs between and . The station, situated close to the A1 road south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the suburb of Newcraighall and other parts of south-eastern Edinburgh such as Craigmillar and Niddrie. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by ScotRail. History The station was opened by Railtrack on 3 June 2002, and served as a terminus station for the Edinburgh Crossrail. Though fully within the City of Edinburgh local authority area, it is located only a few yards from its boundaries with both East Lothian and Midlothian. Following the opening of the Borders Railway on 6 September 2015, the line was extended south-east towards Galashiels and Tweedbank. The station now serves as a park and ride facility into central Edinburgh for commuters living in parts of East Lothian, Midlothian and the Scottish Borders. Though the Waverley Route never had a station at this location, one did exist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Newcraighall
Newcraighall (, ) ttp://www.gaelicplacenames.org/databasedetails.php?id=535 Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba ~ Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland/ref> is a South-Eastern suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. A former mining village, its prosperity was based on the Midlothian coalfields. The Newcraighall pit was known as 'Klondyke' and closed in the 1960s, work transferring to nearby Bilston Glen and in particular the last-to-close (1998) Monktonhall pit. The village had a church, a Co-op and a miners' club (demolished after a fire on 15 July 2009) and bowling green. Newcraighall now plays host to an out-of-town shopping complex, Fort Kinnaird, previously known as ‘’Edinburgh Fort'' (south of Newcraighall Road) and ''Kinnaird Park'' (north). Today, the retail park is still commonly referred to as "The Fort" by residents. Newcraighall railway station is on the newly reopened Borders Railway which runs from Edinburgh to Tweedbank and was formerly part of the Waverley Route to Carlisle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tweedbank Railway Station
Tweedbank is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between and Tweedbank. The station, situated south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the village of Tweedbank in Scottish Borders, Scotland. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by ScotRail. History The station was built by BAM Nuttall, and opened on 6 September 2015. Facilities The station design uses a central platform with a line on either side. There is a 235-space car parking with 13 accessible spaces. There is a cafe and an accessible toilet which is only open when the cafe is open. There are waiting shelters on the platform. Bike racks are also provided at the station. Bus Connections Borders Buses route 67 (to Galashiels and Berwick-Upon-Tweed) and route 68 (to Galashiels and Jedburgh Jedburgh ( ; ; or ) is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and the traditional county town of the Shires of Scotland, historic county of Roxburghshire. History Jedburgh began as ''Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Railway Stations In Great Britain Opened In 2002
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and freight transport globally, thanks to its energy efficiency and potentially high speed.Rolling stock on rails generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, allowing rail cars to be coupled into longer trains. Power is usually provided by diesel or electric locomotives. While railway transport is capital-intensive and less flexible than road transport, it can carry heavy loads of passengers and cargo with greater energy efficiency and safety. Precursors of railways driven by human or animal power have existed since antiquity, but modern rail transport began with the invention of the steam locomotive in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 19th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
ScotRail (National Express)
ScotRail was a train operating company in Scotland owned by National Express that operated the ScotRail franchise from March 1997 until October 2004. Prior to March 1997 ScotRail (British Rail) ran the trains and after October 2004 First ScotRail ran them. History During the 1990s, the British Government undertook the privatisation of British Rail; the formerly state-owned ScotRail (British Rail), ScotRail operation was the final of 25 passenger franchises to be bid for. On 1 April 1997, the British transport operator National Express took over operations of the franchise from incumbent British Rail; it operated under the ScotRail brand. During 2002, National Express claimed that, unless additional public funding was provided to operate the Caledonian Sleeper, the company could not afford to continue the service. Two years later, the operator was accused of misleading the travelling public about seat availability on its sleeper services, the alleged motive being to lower passen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
British Rail Class 170
The British Rail Class 170 ''Turbostar'' is a British diesel-hydraulic multiple unit passenger train designed and built by Adtranz, and later by Bombardier Transportation, at Derby Litchurch Lane Works. The Class 170 was derived from the and DMUs, known as the ''Networker Turbos'', of the 1990s. The first units were introduced to service in 1999, shortly after the privatisation of British Rail; they have been commonly used to operate regional as well as long-distance services, and to a lesser extent suburban services. A total of 139 units were built, but some were later converted to and units. These trains are currently in use with CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, Northern Trains and ScotRail. Design The Class 170 diesel multiple unit (DMU) is a development of the design used in the and DMUs known as the ''Networker Turbos'' and built by British Rail Engineering Limited and later ABB Transportation before that company became part of Bombardier. Notable featur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
British Rail Class 158
The British Rail Class 158 ''Sprinter (British Rail), Express Sprinter'' is a diesel multiple unit (DMU) passenger train. It is a member of the Sprinter (British Rail), Sprinter series of regional trains, produced as a replacement for British Rail's List of British Rail diesel multiple unit classes#First generation, first generation of DMUs; of the other members, the British Rail Class 159, Class 159 is almost identical to the Class 158, having been converted from Class 158 to Class 159 in two batches to operate express services from West of England Main Line, London Waterloo to the West of England. The Class 158 was constructed between 1989 and 1992 by British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL) at its Derby Litchurch Lane Works. The majority were built as two-car sets; some three-car sets were also produced. During September 1990, the first Express Sprinters were operated by ScotRail (British Rail), ScotRail; the type was promptly introduced to secondary routes across the Midland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Abellio ScotRail
Abellio ScotRail, operating services under the name ScotRail, was the national train operating company of Scotland. A subsidiary of the Netherlands-based transport conglomerate Abellio (transport company), Abellio, it operated the ScotRail (brand), ScotRail franchise between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2022. In October 2014, Abellio was selected by Transport Scotland to take over the franchise from the incumbent operator First ScotRail. On 1 April 2015, Abellio ScotRail commenced operations. On 6 September 2015, it ran the first services on the newly-opened Borders Railway. In conjunction with the wider Edinburgh to Glasgow Improvement Programme, Abellio ScotRail introduced the British Rail Class 385, Class 385 electric trains, which were faster and had more capacity than preceding diesel traction on the route; however, short-term difficulties with the new fleet led to disruption and delays. The operator was also unable to introduce its new Intercity timetable due to the late tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station
Edinburgh Waverley (also known simply as Edinburgh; ) is the principal railway station serving Edinburgh, Scotland. It is the second busiest station in Scotland, after Glasgow Central. The station serves as the northern terminus of the East Coast Main Line, from , although some trains operated by London North Eastern Railway continue to other Scottish destinations beyond Edinburgh. History Origins Edinburgh's Old Town, perched on a steep-sided sloping ridge, was bounded on the north by a valley in which the Nor Loch had been formed. In the 1750s overcrowding led to proposals to link across this valley to allow development to the north. The "noxious lake" was to be narrowed into "a canal of running water", with a bridge formed across the east end of the loch adjacent to the physic garden. This link was built from 1766 as the North Bridge and at the same time plans for the New Town began development to the north, with Princes Street to get unobstructed views south over slopi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Edinburgh And Dalkeith Railway
The Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway was an early railway built to convey coal from pits in the vicinity of Dalkeith into the capital. It was a horse-operated line, with a terminus at St Leonards station, Edinburgh, St Leonards on the south side of Arthur's Seat. Opened in stages from 1831, it was Edinburgh's first railway, and used the 4 ft 6 in gauge railway, track gauge of 4 ft 6 in, commonly used for mineral railways in Scotland. The entry into the terminus involved a passage through a tunnel on a Cable railway, rope-worked incline. It was not planned for passengers, but a trader operated passenger services and they were surprisingly successful, and the company later operated them itself. When intercity railways were being planned, the North British Railway wished to reach Carlisle, Cumbria, Carlisle from Edinburgh, and it purchased the Dalkeith line in 1845 to secure part of the route. The new owners altered the gauge to the standard 4 ft in and laid st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Niddrie Railway Station
Niddrie railway station served the suburb of Niddrie, Edinburgh, Scotland from 1843 to 1950 on the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway. History The station opened in June 1843 by the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway The Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway was an early railway built to convey coal from pits in the vicinity of Dalkeith into the capital. It was a horse-operated line, with a terminus at St Leonards station, Edinburgh, St Leonards on the south side .... It was situated on the north side of New Craig Hall Road on the A6095. The station closed in October 1847 when the line closed for re-gauging. The line to was closed at this time. It reopened on 1 June 1860, closing again four months later on 1 October 1860. It reopened again on 1 December 1864 but closed to passengers for the third and last time in January 1869. The station stayed open for goods traffic until 1950. References External links Disused railway stations in Edinburgh Former North British Railway s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
