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They aren't.

There have been massive problems on the National Grid side in terms of infrastructure building. Unfortunately NG are the ones who build the feeder stations and transformers and power lines, and they have seen timescales stretch and costs spiral with inflation over the last few years. The...

Or, and this is going to sound potentially ridiculous, but bear with me, we could not spend a bucket of money and years of disruption to muck around with platforms in Waverley and instead run trains that aren't 400m long. Realistically what is going to happen is that they'll split at Carlisle...

Yes. If the line had stayed open, it would have had to have remained signalled to a passenger standard to serve as a diversionary route. If it was still signalled as such, even with the stations closed, a parliamentary service would still operate over the line to maintain the statutory...

The problem with this particular line, is that we get in a loop that goes something like this: "The plan for freight services was put on hold until the line was reinstated. The plans shows that there is demand, so we should reopen it." If the the plan is waiting until the line is reinstated...

The route through Melrose is underneath a main road. It was the logical place to end it because they built it on the cheap. Any further suddenly requires a massive amount of funding which is not proportional to the number of people served. Tweedbank is a nice, convenient parkway site that...

If you really wanted to, and you had a good £500m to spend, you could extend the line to either or both of Kelso and Jedburgh. That's as far as it will ever go. There's no money in timber traffic. There are no towns that are worthy of the cost a brand new railway between Jedburgh and...

Why Why? The Settle and Tyne Valley lines are criminally underutilised. Where does the demand come from on a line from Darlington to Penrith. That's utter insanity.

It has been signed off but ultimately finance is more difficult. As far as I have been told, the money is being spent from the NRScot capex budget and will be paid for later? I'm fully aware of the status of the 769s, and that following further electrification they could run to Fife, however...

The 769s aren't planned. They have been mentioned, but there are no plans as yet. Electric units will not be regularly timetabled to turn around at Dalmeny, until several years in the future, and even then it's very unlikely. Electric units along the line, if they are pure EMUs, will be...

*If the infrastructure is upgraded to support it

I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure there's no provision for wrong line working in passenger service. It's certainly not a signalled move, and I doubt in the strongest possible terms that the safety case makes a provision for unsignalled moves

There isn't a crossover at Haymarket station to turn them around from the platforms there. The next crossover that trams can be dispatched from is at West End.

Or you'd run it to Edinburgh Gateway in service, turn around in the up loop, and resume from Gateway in the up direction?

I don't really understand your point. What is less convenient, and what is it less convenient than? What would your ideal network look like? What changes have been made that mean that people are abandoning Lothian Buses and Trams for private cars? Public transport is designed to offer the...

For the sake of argument, what do you think the BCR will look like, how much do you think it will cost and how much revenue or other miscellaneous benefit do you think it would garner.

The paths do currently exist throughout the day given the expected return of these paths at some point in the future

This is just blatantly and provably untrue. If business cases were anti-rail, we wouldn't ever reopen any lines would we. Do your best business case, and if you can come up with a BCR of more than 1.2 over twenty-five years, then I'll be impressed.

Not really. Take this thread for example. I could propose the railway as a solution to a problem; over-tourism in the national park. Of course the railway might be solving that problem, but there is absolutely no way whatsoever that the proposal stands up to even the slightest scrutiny, and...