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A seven-figure funding gap will need to be filled if a new pedestrian crossing of the East Coast Main Line at Dunbar is to be created.
(Permalink) Dunbar East Coast Main Line Pedestrian crossing |
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A survey has been held in a bid to improve access to Dunbar Railway Station from the south.
(Permalink) Dunbar  Dunbar: The new second platform at Dunbar that opened on 15th December 2019, seen from the ex-17.30 LNER Azuma service from Edinburgh Waverley to Kings Cross, calling on 7th June 2023. Prior to 2019, what is ...  Dunbar: The staggered platforms at Dunbar are shown to good effect as an LNER Azuma races through with a Kings Cross to Edinburgh service on 22 September 2020. |
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Confusion surrounds the possibility of a car park at a busy railway station being extended. Calls have repeatedly been made for improvement and extension works to be carried out at Dunbar Railway Station.
(Permalink) Dunbar  Dunbar: A LNER Azuma hurries through rebuilt Dunbar on 31st January 2020. Looks like they have done a good job here but as yet there is no access off the new platform to the streets behind, so one must come i ... |
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A potential reduction in rail services stopping at Dunbar station has been labelled crazy.
Plans were revealed on Monday which show a significantly reduced service at the county station. Both Rail Action Group East of Scotland (RAGES) and Dunbar Community Council have been made aware of the proposals, which could come into effect this summer. (Permalink) Dunbar Dunbar Community Council Rail Action Group East of Scotland  Dunbar: A CrossCountry service for Plymouth pulls out of Dunbar on 20 November 2019. Work proceeds on the new Down platform which is due to open for business early next year. Perhaps this should have opened i ... |
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Members of Dunbar Community Council have expressed their confusion that ScotRail's Kids for a Quid scheme does not cover journeys between Edinburgh Waverley and Dunbar - and have called on the train operator to be clearer as to why.
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An artisan micropub has been given the go-ahead to double the size of its beer garden, despite claims that desperate customers were using a wall as an outdoor toilet.
The operators of the Station Yard, Dunbar, applied for a licence to increase its outside space for customers, increasing its capacity from 80 to 120 customers. (Permalink) Dunbar  Dunbar: Surviving buildings at the entrance to the former goods yard alongside Dunbar station, photographed on 18 June 2009. The white wooden structure was probably the coal office. |
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A rail operator has announced plans to operate a new service on the Newcastle to Edinburgh route.
(Permalink) Alnmouth Berwick Cramlington Dunbar Edinburgh Waverley Morpeth Newcastle Rail North Partnership Reston TransPennine Express Transport Scotland Widdrington |
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Campaigners fighting plans to cut rail services to Dunbar station appear to have won a major concession.
(Permalink) Dunbar  Dunbar: Autumn has arrived and the display of buddleia is obviously past its best at Dunbar as 380103 awaits its return to Edinburgh Waverley on 23 September 2020.  Dunbar: A pair of Cross Country Voyagers call at the new platform at Dunbar, as seen from the equally new footbridge on 31st January 2020. |
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Every East Lothian resident will live within walking distance of new public transport hubs under ambitious new plans to transform the way people travel in the county.
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Anoraks among the readership may delight in this third column on railways in as many months. But, unlike the previous two, this one features future expansion, not the ghosts of railways past.
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More than a quarter of the parking spaces at Dunbar Railway Station will be unavailable until November. [Railscot note: Dunbar station is being rebuilt with a second platform.]
(Permalink) Dunbar  Dunbar: Road approach to Dunbar station in December 2004. The goods yard was located off to the left and the former goods shed still abuts the main station building on the far left. |
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Vehicles hitting Scotlands most bashed bridges have caused hundreds of hours of train delays over the past five years, Network Rail has revealed.
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The need for a new train station at East Linton and more regular train service for Dunbar has been highlighted during a debate on rail services in the Scottish Parliament.
Iain Gray, East Lothian's MSP, said the current situation where Dunbar was served by a mixture of cross-country and east coast long-distance trains and a handful of local ScotRail trains was 'inadequate' for the town's needs and failed to address the demand for train services from East Linton. (Permalink) Dunbar East Linton New station ScotRail  Longniddry: A1 Pacific no 60151 Midlothian leaves Longniddry in April 1964 with the 3.30pm Edinburgh - Berwick stopping train. Nearest the camera is the down siding and, beyond that, the Haddington branch ...  Dunbar: View from the goods yard at Dunbar back towards the station in 1979 with a BR InterCity HST at the platform. Note the second platform and overall roof supports still in place at this time.  East Linton [1st]: Looking east along the ECML from the old station footbridge at East Linton on 16 May 2007. The surviving platform buildings connect to the substantial structure incorporating the former Station Hou ... |
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