Wednesday 22 August 2018

No trains on Sundays for 7 weeks

To allow work to be carried out on the electrification of the rail lines in the Stirling area, there will be no trains operating in the area on Sundays from September 2nd- October 21st.
Alloa-Glasgow & Dunblane/Stirling- Edinburgh services will operate to/from  Falkirk Grahamston, where rail replacement buses will provide connections. Glasgow- Aberdeen & Inverness services , as well as London trains will operate via Fife, and the two Glasgow-Elgin services will start from Perth.
Scotrail notice.

Sunday 19 August 2018

Vintage Bluebirds mark Falkirk Bus station closure


No Midland Bluebird bus services will serve Falkirk Bus Station after tonight, with most services operating via Newmarket Street or Central Retail Park. As many preserved buses were attending the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum at Lathalmond this weekend, several of the vintage buses made their way from Dunfermline to Falkirk this afternoon to mark the sad day- and a current service bus even got in on the act.


From tomorrow, only Stagecoach service 28 from Dunfermline will continue to serve the bus station.


Thursday 16 August 2018

Stirling loses direct London link.

LNER, which took over the East Coast main line in June is to cut one of Stirling's direct rail services to London Kings Cross from later this month. The newly privatised operator will start the 0530 Stirling-London service from Edinburgh, and stop the return 1500 service at Waverley.
Stirling will still be served by the mid morning direct service and sleeper services.

Lothian buses head west

Edinburgh's city bus operator, Lothian Buses are now operating to West Lothian, throught their Lothian Country Buses operation. The services from Whitburn -Edinburgh Park & Bathgate -Edinburgh City, both via Livingston are in direct competition to First's services in the area.
Lothian have also announced new routes starting in late September within West Lothian.
First have recently revised their local network in the area.