Trains

Network Rail yesterday awarded Balfour Beatty a £50m contract to renovate Edinburgh Waverley Station including the installation of 28,000 new glass roof panels.

A new late night service from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh will be launched on 18 December.

The Friday "night" service will leave Glasgow Central at six minutes after midnight - which is some 36 minutes later than the last train to Edinburgh Waverley from Glasgow Queen Street.

Rail journey times between Edinburgh and Glasgow via Shotts will be slashed by up to 33 minutes when a new winter timetable starts in ten days time.

The first stage of a £130m scheme to redevelop Edinburgh Waverley Train Station is under way, with the demolition of a redundant post office depot on the north-east side of the station.

The work will involve the isolation and demolition of the compound and the roof level conveyor which once linked the station to the General Post Office building on Princes Street.

A new study outlines a vision of a UK High Speed Rail network that would cut journey times between Edinburgh and London to 2 hours 40 minutes.

Greengauge 21's "Fast Forward: A high-speed Rail Strategy for Britain" recommends a network of mainly new railways operating at up to 200mph

A new late-night train to North Berwick is among this year's improved services for Edinburgh's Festivals.

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.