The Train Now Leaving Platform 2 Is Late Again!-

 Delays hit Edinburgh-Glasgow Line

The new electric service between the capital and Glasgow will be a year late, if we are lucky, according to the people at Network Rail. So if you are a regular traveller you’ll be missing out on those new smoother trains for quite a while longer and still have to endure the delays that electrifying the service means as work is carried out. The head of the project reckons that they’ll be up and running by December but nobody can promise even that at the moment.

Not Electrifying  

Of course when they come the new trains will be quieter and have more seats, thanks to the Japanese trains from Hitachi.  But the latest problems come from outmoded electrical equipment that has had to be replaced out with the £795 million project budget. This is the second or perhaps the third major delay to hit the project since its inception, depending on how you count the delays. It will also mean that the service will have to rob Peter to pay Paul for the  trains and carriages which initially will have to come from other services around Scotland. And all this to cut journey times by ten minutes to 42 minutes by December 2018!  Well as you know my maths isn’t great, but each second off the journey seems to have cost £1.3m, I’m not sure that is a bargain.

No Travel Chaos Here

Well all of that means that you should avoid the travel chaos and find some better bargains, especially for Father’s Day on the 18th June and get browsing from the fully electrified and occasionally electrifying James Pirie catalogue on this inter web thing which we create just for you. I suggest you have a look at the great whisky gifts that we have collected for your pocket and your delight. If father’s been on the Edinburgh to Glasgow service he’ll need a dram.

https://www.jamespirie.com/whisky-gifts.html