Work to reduce journey times and increase frequency of the railway service between Glasgow and Edinburgh is ahead of schedule and key design contracts will be signed next month, Glasgow's Eleventh State of the City Economy Conference was told yesterday.

Plans to re-establish the old Waverley Rail Line that opened between Edinburgh and Carlisle in the mid-nineteenth century and closed in January 1969 were re-affir

The Waverley Project aims to re-establish a passenger rail link between Edinburgh Waverley, the capital's main railway station, through Midlothian to Tweedbank in t

Waverley Station (aka "Edinburgh Waverley" on train timetables or referred to by locals as just "Waverley") is Edinburgh's main train station, and at 25acres it is the largest mainline station outside of London. It is one of Edinburgh's two main central stations, the other being Haymarket Station, located under a mile and a half west of Waverley.

Haymarket Station is Edinburgh's second mainline railway station, the other being Edinburgh Waverley. As well as a stopping point for London-bound trains, Haymarket station is also on lines running to the West of Scotland and North of Edinburgh to the neighbouring region of Fife, making it Scotland's forth busiest railway station.