May 19 is Rail Day

Alloa's new rail station is almost ready, and service will start on Monday May 19th, with direct trains to Glasgow hourly 7 days a week. The Sunday journeys are already available on Traveline's Journey planner, beginning on the 18th, but due to engineering work between Croy & Falkirk, service will not begin until the next day.

Easter rail disruptions

Over £75m will be invested across the UK rail network this coming Easter weekend which will result in a disruption to normal timetabled services.

In Scotland work will be carried out between 22 and 24 March inclusive with a number of routes affected. In anticipation of trips you may be thinking of making during the Easter weekend period, we wanted to provide you with more details of this in advance, and have outlined below the relevant dates and routes.

If you are planning to travel on any of these routes, check the following website to help you plan your trip.
http://e-crmdata.ecircle-ag.com/re?l=6m8ktwI3hd4nzI2

Saturday, 22nd March 2008

Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen
Glasgow Queen Street - Inverness
Edinburgh - Dunblane
Glasgow Queen Street - Dunblane

Sunday, 23rd March 2008

Glasgow Central - Largs
Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen
Glasgow Queen Street - Inverness
Glasgow Queen Street - Stirling
Edinburgh - Dunblane
Dundee - Glasgow Queen Street
Stirling - Edinburgh
Perth - Edinburgh

Monday, 24th March 2008

Glasgow Queen Street - Aberdeen
Aberdeen - Glasgow Queen Street
Glasgow Queen Street - Inverness
Inverness - Glasgow Queen Street
Newcraighall - Edinburgh - Dunblane
Glasgow Queen Street - Stirling - Dunblane

Stagecoach change Forth Valley services

Stagecoach are changing their routes from Dunfermline to Falkirk & Stirling from April 7th. Falkirk will be served by a No.78 bus, operating direct via Valleyfield. Most journeys will bypass Kincardine.
Stirling will be served by Routes 73/74 operating via Blairhall. This will revive the old Dunfermline-Stirling via Blairhall route last operated by Midland Scottish in the late 70's. However, these services will bypass Clackmannan and Tullibody, meaning that Clackmannan's first bus to Stirling wont be until 7.45am (currently 6.11am), and no direct Sunday service.
From the same date, Stagecoach Airlink service 747 will be extended to operate from Dunfermline on certain early morning services.

Kincardine Park & Ride

Fife Council are promoting Walker Street Carpark in Kincardine as a Park & Ride
facility. The site offers free parking for 67 cars, and buses every 20 minutes during the day to Glasgow & Dunfermline,and hourly to Stirling & Falkirk.


http://www.fifefire.gov.uk/uploadfiles/publications/c64_Kincardine(1xlarge-1xA3)_Layout1.pdf

Dunfermline stance changes

From Jan 21st, several stances in James Street Dunfermline will be moved to the site of the new bus station in Queen Anne Street (near the Post Office). Services to the Central belt are mostly effected, with Stagecoach Express services to Glasgow, and routes 74 & 78 to Falkirk & Stirling moving to the new site.

First Scotrail improvements

Effective with the new winter timetables on December 9th, First Scotrail are improving Sunday services between Stirling and Glasgow Queen Street. The new service will depart Stirling hourly from 1025 til 2125, returning at 1015 through to 2215.
In addition, Dunblane-Edinburgh services will resume through service to Newcraighall from the same date.

First Rail to Manchester

First's TransPennine Express will be crossing the border, from 9th December, when they start new services from both Glasgow Central & Edinburgh to Manchester and Manchester Airport.
Services will leave Glasgow at 0640, 0840 & 1340 weekdays, and from Edinburgh at 0821, 1152, 1552 & 1752. Journey times are just under 3 1/2 hrs. There are also 3 return journeys from Edinburgh & 1 from Glasgow on Sundays.
Fares start at £15 each way.