14 September 2008
Waverley Route - comment on Sunday Herald article
Commenting on the article '
Edinburgh-Borders rail link plan overly optimistic and flawed, says secret report', Paul Tetlaw, Chair of Transform Scotland said:
"This project should proceed as a matter of urgency. The closure of the Waverley Route in 1969 was one of the most severe and ill-judged of the Beeching-era cuts, and it is unjust that the Borders has been left with no rail services. Reinstating a railway to the Borders will bring real and lasting benefits not only to the people of that area, but also to Midlothian and the rest of South-East Scotland."Passenger numbers on the recently reopened Stirling-Alloa railway line are already over-performing the predicted patronage numbers. We have no doubt that people will swarm to use the Waverley Route upon its reopening."