SIR, - It’s great news that the construction of the Waverley route in the Borders is to be speeded up by at least a year.
writes a Mr Colin Maclean from Embra. And goes on:
However, folk in the east are still waiting for the proposed Edinburgh/Berwick hourly stopping service. This is to provide a local, seven day a week, 18 hours a day, service from Edinburgh serving Longniddry, Dunbar, East Linton and Reston with its abundance of car parking space for an eastern Borders rail parkway. These proposals have been on the cards for years, yet all we get is endless, expensive and time wasting consultation, surveys and meetings.
Pressure must be speedily put on our MSPs and MPs to deliver the railway we all want before our scheme is hijacked into an Edinburgh/Newcastle stopping service. This seems to be the thought in London.
Not many folk wish to travel to Beal, Belford or Widdrington. It’s Edinburgh we all want.
And do 'many folk' not wishing to call at Beal, Belford or Widdrington realy want to be bothered with Reston, East Linton, Dunbar and Longniddry
Especially if
'It's Edinburgh we want'
(The image is of Longniddry Station. Nice name, nice station but nothing to detain us, if it is Embra we want)
Labels: Berwickshire Railway Stations, RAGES, Reston Station