Last year, I visited Breich Station - on the Glasgow to Edinburgh line, with 2 trains each way per hour passing and one train each way per day calling. As might be expected, passenger number are low. I was not the only one who visited - other did too. Here are my 2 reports and one other
http://www.wellho.net/mouth/4765_Breich-Station-current-pictures-and-future-options.htmlhttp://www.wellho.net/mouth/4764_Some-thoughts-on-the-closure-proposal-for-Breich-station.htmlhttps://felixunstructured.weebly.com/lusblog/breich-the-project-has-begunBreich was under threat of closure (reasons in reports above) but it was actually - against how I would have bet - reprieved and has been rebuilt. My report (above) looks around at the traffic offered and that could be offered and handles, and this could well be a station who's time will come good in the next decade. Here are some new pictures - scarcely recognisable and ready for the passenger. Let's hope the other jigsaw pieces to bring people to the station and provide trains for them to catch are also provided.
https://felixunstructured.weebly.com/lusblog/back-to-the-start-a-return-to-breichWe have a
GWR▸ station which is in as low a place as Breich was; it's not got the huge benefit of a main road as Breich has, but in its rebuild, a move of 400 metres along the rail would more it a kilometre as the road drives, and onto a classified road where it could follow Breich to a modern facility, and with trains provided it could once again blossom. Far too much to write here of what is an excellent case - but Breich can be a light to follow.
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