Passengers left stranded as trains are cancelled have become a familiar sight and could become even more common with global warming increasing extreme weather conditions, it is feared.
Rail workers claim cancellations are taking place more often bec…
A MOCK pile up was simulated just outside Dumfries on Saturday as part of a fire service training exercise.
The incident replicated a multi vehicle crash on the A711, half a mile north of Dumfries, involving a tractor, a log lorry that had shed it load…
The A9 was meant to be dualled by 2025 – and now the Scottish Tories want money due to the Scottish Government linked to scrapping the HS2 extension to go towards “urgently” upgraded the road north of the border
By Alistair Grant
Published 5th Oct 202…
Rishi Sunak pledged to “reinvest every single penny, £36 billion, in hundreds of new transport projects in the North and the Midlands, across the country”.
This includes the creation of what he named Network North, which involves improvements to road, …
Network Rail Scotland[1] also need to inspect the tracks, signals and overhead wires before the line can reopen.
In the meantime, buses will continue to replace trains between Prestwick Town & Ayr and Girvan & Ayr.
A ScotRail update read: “The railw…
DUALLING the region’s A77/A75 trunk roads would bring £5bn of “positive benefits” to the UK economy, according to a new report.
Those would range from reduced journey times and vehicle operating costs (£700 million), to combined CO2e savings of around …