North Berwick Line

North Berwick Line

The terminus of the line at North Berwick
Overview
Type Commuter rail
Regional rail
Heavy rail
System National Rail
Locale Edinburgh / East Lothian, Scotland
Termini Edinburgh Waverley
North Berwick / Dunbar
Stations 8
Operation
Owner Network Rail
Operator(s) Abellio ScotRail
Depot(s)
Rolling stock Class 158 "Express Sprinter"
(for use on some Saturday Dunbar Services)
Class 170 "Turbostar"
(For use on one weekday evening peak time train and for use on Saturday Dunbar Services on most occasions)
Class 380 "Desiro"
(All other Services)
Class 385 From December 2017
Technical
Number of tracks Double-track from Waverley to Drem
Single-track from Drem to North Berwick
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Electrification 25 kV 50 Hz AC

North Berwick Line

Legend
Glasgow Central
Glasgow Subway St Enoch
 Motherwell

Wishaw

Carluke
 Carstairs
Left arrow West Coast Main Line
Right arrow Shotts Line
 Kirknewton
 Haymarket Edinburgh Trams
Edinburgh Waverley
Edinburgh Trams St Andrew Square
Left arrow Borders Railway
 Musselburgh
 Wallyford
 Prestonpans
 Longniddry
 Drem
North Berwick
East Linton
(proposed)
 Dunbar
Reston
(proposed)
 Down arrow East Coast Main Line

The North Berwick Line is a railway line linking Edinburgh with North Berwick in Scotland. The route follows the East Coast Main Line as far as Drem where it then branches to the north.

The section between Drem and Edinburgh Waverley shares the track with the Virgin Trains East Coast London Kings Cross - Edinburgh Waverley service. It consists of all or part of the following Network Rail routes:

Passenger services are operated by Abellio ScotRail. The line is electrified at 25 kV AC overhead.

Services

Most services run between North Berwick and Edinburgh Waverley, with peak-time services continuing to Haymarket and 2 services a day continuing through to Glasgow Central and onwards to Ayr. Service is generally hourly between 7am and 7pm, with half hourly service at peak time and on Saturdays, and a reduced hourly service on weekday evenings and Sundays.

Although incorporated into the same timetable from May 2010, ScotRail provide services to Dunbar; however, these typically did not stop at intermediate stations. From May 2011, all ScotRail services to/from Dunbar now stop at Musselburgh. These services run two hourly during Mondays-Saturdays with an additional late night service.

Rolling stock

The Class 380 "Desiro" has been using the route since June 2011. They replaced the Class 322's in which they finished service on this line in August the same year after 6 years. They have been cascaded onto the Wakefield Line with Northern Rail. Due to the amount of 380's taking on the half hourly North Berwick services during Saturdays, a Class 170 "Turbostar" regularly takes on these Services to Dunbar. They can sometimes run to North Berwick because of ScotRail's lack of EMUs based in Edinburgh. Occasionally, a Class 158 "Express Sprinter" may run along this route due to the same reason as for a Class 170.

From December 2017, ScotRail services on the North Berwick Line will begin to use new Class 385 units. Services will be formed of six coaches (two 3-car units) following growing passenger numbers (the platform at North Berwick was extended in early 2016 to accommodate these new longer trains). In the short term Class 380/1s (four car) may be removed from the line and two Class 380/0s (three car) used instead until the new trains arrive. Once the new units arrive, The Class 380 units will be cascaded to increase capacity on the Ayrshire and Inverclyde Lines to and from Glasgow making all services on these routes operated by Class 380s.

Historical route

As with many contemporary routes, trains on this line run on the metals of several historical routes:

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to North Berwick Line.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/21/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.