| Comment | They're approaching capacity though. Train travel in Glasgow has been rising year on year for about 15 years now. Quite dramatically so in the last 5ish years.
Central station can't handle any more lines or trains. Queen St I think is or will be very close to maximum capacity when it opens fully again.
The key rail lines in and out of the city are also operating at capacity in terms of services per hour (this might not be true of the Cathcart Circle, but definitely is in terms of the east west lines through the centre).
There's just no room for more use of rail with infrastructure as it is. Expanding new light rail networks would be cheaper, easier and more cost effective than new rail lines, or even possibly dualling existing ones or building new major stations. |
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