Waverley Express Re-lived 2017
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2017
- A journey on the route of the Waverley named train from Hawick to Sheffield. The Waverley restaurant car Express ran from Edinburgh to London through the Scottish Borders and down the Midland Route to London St Pancras. It Ended in the Summer of 1968 with the closure of the railway route through the Borders. This is a draft for something a bit more elaborate.
very interesting
Will be possible again WHEN the entire line is open again from Carlisle to Edinburgh.
I might be able to go all the way to London then. thought HS2 will be open by then. So the North British Midland route will still be the slow line.
You want a Jubilee for the Waverley Express!
A nice video but an empty bus from Hawick is not a great case for re-opening the line South.
It was the earliest bus on a bank holiday Monday which may have reduced numbers. One person got on at Langholm and another at Canonbie. Most people go by car particularly if the do so for work every day. The train journey would be much more attractive than the bus for work and leisure users, but it would need to attract a lot more users than the bus. The Borders railway has many more users than the bus did, could this be replicated south of Hawick and would it be enough even with some through traffic. That's the question the forth coming feasibility study needs to answer we await it findings.
My thoughts exactly. Moreover,this would have been an valuable diversion route for the WCML & it would have done well out of the forestry traffic