Date: 26/01/2023

Major investment near Perth station will help speed up journey times and increase capacity on the route between the Central Belt and the North East.

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Railway Enhancement Project Achieves Major Milestone

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Major investment near Perth station will help speed up journey times and increase capacity on the route between the Central Belt and the North East.

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Major investment near Perth station will help speed up journey times and increase capacity on the route between the Central Belt and the North East. Network Rail engineers delivering £6.8 million of enhancement work near Perth station recently completed a major milestone that will speed up journey times and also increase capacity on to the route.
Location: Barnhill [P&DR]
Company: Dundee and Perth Railway
/01/2023 Network Rail

This rural looking scene is in fact only a few hundred yards from Perth city centre. It is also just a mile from Perth Signalling Centre, which opened in 1962. When you think of the cost of all those Barnhill signallers' shifts over 59 years you wonder why Perth SC has never reached out just a bit.
Location: Barnhill [P&DR]
Company: Dundee and Perth Railway
02/06/2021 David Panton

Starting in March 2022, this initial phase involved track work east of Perth station at Barnhill, historically a constrained section of the route next to the River Tay. Working with contractor the Rail Systems Alliance, Network Rail undertook a nine-month programme of alignment work to replace a curved section of track by installing a new single line and also remodelling the junction by replacing switches and crossings. This allows an increase in line speed for trains from 20mph to 50mph on this part of the route Speeding up journey times also improves capacity for more freight services to be introduced to the network.
Location: Barnhill [P&DR]
Company: Dundee and Perth Railway
/01/2023 Network Rail

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