The Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme (EGIP) EGIP will see the electrification of 350km of the existing rail network in the central belt, including the main Edinburgh Waverley-Glasgow Queen Street line.
By 2016, journey time on the main Edinburgh Waverley-Glasgow Queen Street route will be down to 37 minutes. Frequency of service on all routes between the two cities will be increased from the current five or six services per hour to 13 services per hour.
It will also provide opportunities to increase services and reduce journey times on routes between Alloa and Dunblane and Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Network Rail director Scotland Ron McAulay said: “The EGIP programme will deliver significant benefits for communities across central Scotland, reducing journey times and increasing service levels across key routes.
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“The project will also further improve the appeal of rail as a greener alternative to the car and we are sure the public will be excited by the ambitious scale of this investment and the opportunities it will create for them.”
EGIP is being funded by Transport Scotland on behalf of the Scottish government, with the new infrastructure financed through Network Rail’s regulatory asset base.
As part of the public consultation exercise, which will last from June until the end of November, the project team will hold hundreds of events across the communities which will benefit from the project and publicise the works through billboards, newspaper and radio advertising.
Over the next eight weeks stations on the line of route will be targeted with posters and leaflets as will local residents, with the project planning to distribute more than 200,000 leaflets across the central belt.
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