Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley

Join us on a Cab Ride across Scotland from Glasgow Central Station to Edinburgh Waverley. We’re travelling in the cab of a Class 43 powering Network Rail’s New Measurement Train, otherwise known as the Yellow Banana, as it carries out a regular safety check on the tracks.
From Glasgow’s main station we cross the River Clyde on the West Coast Main Line. We’ll head south and south-east at speeds of up to 90 miles per hour through some challenging landscape. Along the way we’ll pass many existing and disused lines, built to feed the industrial needs of the nation.
At the newly refurbished and re-aligned Carstairs Junction we turn to the north-east to head for the Scottish capital. There’s a delay at Midcalder Junction as we’re held for trains on the Shotts line, but once a path is set for us there follows an uninterrupted run to our destination.
The lines we travel along were built by the Caledonian Railway, but we won’t end up at its Edinburgh terminus. That was closed in 1965, and only the railway hotel remains. Instead, we’ll take to the Duff Street Spur, a short length of track which became the most contested in British railway history. It leads us to Haymarket Junction, from where it’s no more than a few minutes to Edinburgh Waverley past the magnificent Edinburgh Castle.
You can keep updated on signal aspects, feather indications, permissive speeds and station names with on-screen graphics, and animated maps show clearly the route we follow.
There’s full commentary throughout to guide you on the journey.