Scotland is a part of the United Kingdom which occupies one-third of Northern Great Britain. The Scottish Railway is owned and operated by Network Rail Infrastructure Limited. The whole of the rail strategy and funding for Scotland railways is taken care by the Scottish Government. Scotland’s rail network has around 340 railway stations and 3,000 kilometers of railway track with over 62 million passenger turn out every year. The main railway routes that connect the different locales of Scotland are the The East Coast and The West Coast Main railway lines and the Cross Country lines. These main lines connect the various major cities and towns in Scotland with each other and other rail networks in England.
On the most scenic lines, on account of the sparse population, there are normally very few trains in this route. The summer timetable, which covers the time period from early June to late September, has more number of trains. On the other hand, Glasgow-Edinburgh trains run every 15 minutes through the day. On longer distance routes there is one train every hour that operates from Edinburgh to London and vice versa.
Using ScotRail Train Timetable from www.ScotRail.co.uk :
Planning the train journey’s can be made easier if you have access to the internet. Normally if you want UK train timetables you must log on to UK’s National Rail Enquiries website and browse through their journey planner. But if you need specific trains running across Scotland you can always log on to www.scotrail.co.uk . This site has PDF versions of the schedules for all the trains on Scottish lines. The website is extremely user friendly. Once you log onto the website, at the homepage you come across subcategories that include, Fares and ticket type, Timetables and Maps, Station facilities, Travel connections, Disabled assistance, Sleeper trains, Performance and Reliability, Environment, Events and Attractions, New, Loyalty Club and so on.
The website provides us quick and easy way to find out the timings for a specific train route on the homepage right hand corner itself. Here you have slots where you can enter place of departure, date of travel, time of departure, place of destination, return date and return time. Alternatively, under the timetables and maps tab, we get access to mini-timetables in the form of PDF files allowing us to printout our own timetable. They have sketched out a very detailed list of timetable in these files that show the route at the top of each page, the days of operation, all stations in that route and connection points, letters and signs above the times correspond to the notes at the bottom of each table.
They provide timetables in the PDF format from trains running between stations like, Glasgow-Edinburgh, Inverness-Aberdeen, Glasgow-Falkirk Grahmaston/ Cumbernauld, Glasgow & Edinburgh – Aberdeen, Glasgow & Edinburgh – Inverness & North Highlands, Glasgow & the West Highlands, Edinburgh & Fife Circle and trains from stations like Central Scotland, Edinburgh Suburban, Southwest Scotland and Northern Ireland, North Clyde, South Clyde, Strathclyde West and Clyde Coast.
Hello Sir, i require scotrail maps, can you provide me the link to first scotrail map on website?