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New Reston Station - Progress & Updates

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:( Building a station in the middle of nowhere and not having a good selection of connecting buses running from opening day seems criminal :( If they want to allege that the station serves any public transport purpose at all there needs to be a St Abbs - Eyemouth bus and a Duns bus.
 
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Actually there are 4 buses per day (Travelsure )between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Reston. The first is the school bus, and goes via Coldingham, but the others go direct along the A1 until Ayton. Borders Buses also operate 5/day between Berwick-upon-Tweed and St Abbs, but don't continue to Reston.
 

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Newcastle - Edinburgh is generally the one TPE service that can actually be trusted to run more than 2% of the time as it's the primary way of rotating 802s through Craigentinny for maintenance.
Will only be one train per day each way from TransPennine Express however when they are on strike.
 
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It's open - and in traditional form, a piper was present. The first passenger call was from 802 212, TPE 9N05.

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58 years since the last train left, the 0621 to Newcastle departs from Reston station bound for Newcastle. #ScotlandsRailway
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Congratulations to the campaigners and residents of Reston on the reopening of their station.
 

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:( Building a station in the middle of nowhere and not having a good selection of connecting buses running from opening day seems criminal :( If they want to allege that the station serves any public transport purpose at all there needs to be a St Abbs - Eyemouth bus and a Duns bus.
A bus to Duns would surely be a huge waste of money, almost nobody would use it? Reston and Eyemouth are very small in population and the train service is very infrequent. The people of Duns would far rather have a handful of extra services to Berwick-upon-Tweed surely.
 

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A bus to Duns would surely be a huge waste of money, almost nobody would use it? Reston and Eyemouth are very small in population and the train service is very infrequent. The people of Duns would far rather have a handful of extra services to Berwick-upon-Tweed surely.
They could probably have found something useful to spend £20m on too, instead of a station. If a bus costs £120k to run per year....

But, no point crying over spilt tenners, it's built now, lets see how usage picks up - assuming the advertised service is achieved of course.
 

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I understand that an on demand bus service called Pingo has recently launched in this area.
 

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Transport Scotland will be funding part of the new Newcastle-Edinburgh service to enable the stops at Reston.
They just happen to be paying a DfT TOC to deliver the service - it would cost Scotrail more to do it themselves.
This was from the Scotrail temporary timetable thread. Apologies if already covered, but what exactly is TS paying for given the service was running anyway? Are they paying only the additional operating costs (including any net lost revenue) due to the extra time in the schedules?
 

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Apologies if already covered, but what exactly is TS paying for given the service was running anyway? Are they paying only the additional operating costs (including any net lost revenue) due to the extra time in the schedules?
The service between Edinburgh and Newcastle had been withdrawn for passengers, and was just a handful of empty stock movements. These were turned into passenger services and added additional round trips. Now some additional Edinburgh - Berwick-upon-Tweed services have also been added.
 

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LNER have released a promo video to celebrate the opening of the station with a brief chat with one of the booking clerks of the original station.


Also a video of the first arrival at the station from RailAdvent via TransPennine Express.


Network Rail press release with a video from Jenny Gilruth (no mention that no services will be served by ScotRail :lol:).

Video: https://embedwistia-a.akamaihd.net/deliveries/3416a2a2c39334af6a8ac3e28bb3a1d7b7da835f.mp4


Passengers services today called at Reston station for the first time in almost six decades.


The reconnection of the Berwickshire village to the national rail network follows completion of work to construct the station as part of a £20m of investment from the Scottish Government to boost the local transport network.


The first passenger service since 1964 – the 05.29 TransPennine Express (TPE) from Edinburgh Waverly called at Reston at 06.16 completing the Village’s return to the railway.


Jenny Gilruth, Scottish Government Minister for Transport travelled to the Scottish Borders village aboard the 09.33 TransPennine Express service to Reston. The train’s arrival was greeted by a piper and Ms. Gilruth was met by a party of children from Reston Primary school.
 
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A bus to Duns would surely be a huge waste of money, almost nobody would use it? Reston and Eyemouth are very small in population and the train service is very infrequent. The people of Duns would far rather have a handful of extra services to Berwick-upon-Tweed surely.

I'm sure :(

It seems sad to be talking the futility of any services that might make the station part of a joined up public transport system that served a population of more than 450, but here we are.

It's not as sad, of course, as the fact that so many of the few buses that do run miss connections by minutes...
 
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Regarding buses: I was on the first train into the station and was walking past the station bus stop when the first bus (as in, the first since that first train arrived) came past. One person boarded, and no-one got off.
 

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Roger French has been, some more info on the bus service(s) too:
https://busandtrainuser.com/2022/05/24/reston-is-britains-luckiest-village/
… and there are two, albeit limited in frequency, scheduled bus routes that now call at the station including Borders Bus two hourly (4/5 off peak journeys a day) route 253 ……. and Travelsure’s four journeys a day route 34 (Tweedmouth to Duns) ……. but I’m sure the car park will be handy for people living in the new station’s hinterland, not least the 3,600 people living in Eyemouth on the coast, six miles to the north east of Reston, which is the largest nearby community – albeit small by rail station catchment areas.
 
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Perhaps with the arrival of the station, some housebuilders might be interested in nearby development opportunities (if there are any)?
 
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Yes - looks like around 250+ homes zoned for around the station. https://www.scotborders.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/896/reston.pdf
Good news. Hopefully the new station will have a knock on positive effect in places like Ayton, Coldingham, Eyemouth. While not totally isolated from the rail network (Berwick Upon-Tweed not being that far away). Having been down to visit St Abbs aka New Asgard and Eyemouth, it's a nice part of the world to visit and would prefer to visit these spots again by train and a good connecting bus service, rather than a tiring journey down the A1.
 

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Reston now joins Lockerbie in being the 2 only scotrail managed station to have no scotrail services. TPE may as well take over both stations as they provide most services
 

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Reston now joins Lockerbie in being the 2 only scotrail managed station to have no scotrail services. TPE may as well take over both stations as they provide most services
Is there any particular reason why Scotrail managing stations their trains don’t call at is undesirable?
 

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Reston now joins Lockerbie in being the 2 only scotrail managed station to have no scotrail services. TPE may as well take over both stations as they provide most services
TPE do not have a nearby local management structure so probably couldn't even if they wanted to. LNER, Northern and Avanti West Coast all do, but so do ScotRail. Therefore for political reasons, ScotRail will manage the stations. Dunbar used to be managed by the East Coast franchisee but no longer. It transferred to ScotRail when the Department awarded the contract to Virgin Trains East Coast.

I wonder what the car ownership of prospective new residents will be and also will the railway station meet the travelling needs for locations of work for them.
Given the very low frequency of the bus and train services from the station I would imagine that household car access will be much higher than average. Close to 100%.
 

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Reston now joins Lockerbie in being the 2 only scotrail managed station to have no scotrail services. TPE may as well take over both stations as they provide most services
... and, currently, Dunbar (albeit that's supposed to be a temporary situation). If the people who look after the station are nearby, it's much more efficient than having a team slogging out to it miles from anywhere else they look after. Someone has to have responsibility for any given station and it makes a lot more sense for it to be Scotrail in this case.
 

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Popped there this afternoon on the 16:14odd from Newcastle (17:20odd arrival), returning to Newcastle on the 18;13odd (amazingly both TPE services actually ran!)

I would guess around 5 passengers boarded the northbound train with only myself alighting. 11 vehicles in the car park (although no idea if all were rail users). Southbound train only myself boarded but around 10 passengers alighted.

I wonder how many other passengers have mistakingly used the wrong stairs to the platforms from the car park, as the first set you reach leads to the emergency exit gates at the Edinburgh end of the southbound platform, with no sign at the bottom saying "do not use these stairs unless you want to pop open the emergency gate at the top" (surely it would be better to remove said gates?)

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And just what is that noise I could hear on the platform?
 

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Isn't that fairly achievable if we extrapolate the (admittedly anecdotal) numbers in this thread? A lot of people here seem dead against the station, but if it meets the forecasts I don't see the issue. More access to rail is a good thing.
 

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Isn't that fairly achievable if we extrapolate the (admittedly anecdotal) numbers in this thread? A lot of people here seem dead against the station, but if it meets the forecasts I don't see the issue. More access to rail is a good thing.
Reston has (presently) 102 calls per week. So you only need 3 or 4 travellers per train to/from Reston to nominally meet the target.
 
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