Scottish enhancements

Category 1: Projects continuing from CP5 Aberdeen-Inverness: Infrastructure to provide for services to new stations at Dalcross and Kintore, and more frequent commuter services from Elgin to Inverness and Inverurie to Aberdeen. To be completed by December 2019.

Queen Street: Remodel Glasgow Queen Street station to lengthen platforms and improve the concourse as part of the Edinburgh-Glasgow Improvement Programme. Dunbar: New westbound platform to remove conflicting moves created by westbound trains crossing the eastbound line to reach station’s single platform.

Category 2: Projects considered essential to maintain a safe, highperforming railway Edinburgh Suburban Line: Upgrade to allow expected increase in freight to bypass Waverley station - includes tackling pinch-point at Portobello Junction, and takes advantage of CP5 upgrades to gauge and electrification. Carstairs: Remodel track layout, raise line speeds and lengthen platforms to improve performance and ease regulation of freight. Greenhill Junction: Remodel junction to be grade-separated. Builds on CP5 improvements. Edinburgh Waverley Western Approaches: Remodel a key location (unspecified) to remove constraints on the Winchburgh/ Newbridge/Haymarket to Inverkeithing corridor. Avoids large-scale projects closer to Waverley. Glasgow Central: Menu of options including extending and remodelling current platforms, building new platforms, adding or remodelling approach lines, or building a new city centre station. Dunblane-Perth: Support faster

and more services by remodelling Perth station and building a servicing and stabling depot.

East Kilbride/Barrhead: Electrify and enhance routes to cope with passenger growth and minimise extra capacity needed at Glasgow Central. Maryhill: Electrification. Prestonpans-Drem: Upgrade double track to four. Edinburgh Waverley Eastern Approaches: Project linked to track and signalling renewals to improve capacity into Waverley station. Should follow Suburban Line upgrade to allow trains to be diverted over it via Haymarket.

Kilmarnock/Barassie: Electrify and enhance to make network more resilient and provide more capacity.

Category 3: Projects to support social and economic objectives Central Belt to Aberdeen and Inverness: Incremental improvements to deliver capacity, reliability, journey time and freight improvements. Aberdeen-Inverness: Second phase of improvements to give hourly journeys. Far North Line: Project to improve timetables, performance and infrastructure.

Category 4: Projects to increase capacity of crossborder routes, with joint funding Carlisle-Glasgow via Carstairs and via Dumfries: Gauge enhancement to support freight and tap new markets, improve resilience by treating both routes. High-speed enabling: Development work to determine how to integrate HS2 into Scotland’s network.

Drem: Install dynamic loops to add capacity and flexibility. Source: Scotland’s rail infrastructure: The rail industry’s advice for 2019 onwards.