Train Spotting
Sun, 18/12/2005 - 13:19 — Anonymous
My neighbour has mentioned that there used to be a train station in Newtonhill and I noticed a poll about it on the website. Can someone enlighten me on whether the NVA or Council are trying to get it re-instated and if so what stage are we at ? :?: :?: :?:
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...and lo'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-1350110...
We are in the news...
Once you start reading your book on the bus, you don't notice the time, stops or traffic jams!! Much more relaxing than driving!!!
If I didnt work shifts I would take the train not the bus,too many hassles and stops with the bus.The train is straight through to Aberdeen in a fraction of the time the bus takes.Of course if more people took the train and bus the roads would be emptier and the bus would get there quicker.In an ideal world.
Bridge of Dee for starters.
why would you use the train but not a bus??
I would use the train in a heartbeat.Less miles on my car,it might last longer.
Not a picture I wanted Ella thank you. :mrgreen:
You would think they would be jumping over themselves to open the station,the very fact that they are building roads that discourage car ownership should be an incentive.Some of my neighbours who car share would leap at the chance to use the train.Less cars heading in the dualler-less cars parked in town.
I could believe that
Yae cood cood yae an whys that hiv you been peepin tommin my washin line.
jist cos I hiv a big mooth disnae mean I hiv a big airse,I said mae drawers were HUGE cos I like comfort,nae cheese cutters up my bahoochie ahll thank yae very much. :eeeeek:
I much prefer the train, no stops between being picked up and dropped off, the fares not too bad with senior rail card from stoney around £3.05 without £3.85 from Portlethen £2.20 without £2.80.Thats a return ticket.There may be a perfectly good car park but you have to get to it and why bother.Let the train take the strain,noo dae yae think that would mak a good advert,think ahll gie Moir Lockheed a phone.
Ella, do they charge pensioners from Portlethen and Stonehaven?? Thought it would've been cheaper and easier on the bus???
I could believe that
Because I dont have a car, my friend does and we meet others just like me who happen to live in Portlethen and we get onto the same train that friends who live in Stonehaven are on, we all go into town together. And we all catch the same train home, I get off at Portlethen because nosey I usually have my tea there with my friends, my Stonehaven friends complete with their markies bags carry on home to Stonehaven.now the only thing you dont know now is my knicker size well unlike your brain THEY'RE HUGE. :eeeeek:
So how do you know if they get off at Stoney?
And why take the car as far as portlethen when there is a perfectly good car park not minutes from markies?
"You never see people loaded down with markies carrier bags on the train either."
Yes you do, but they come off at Portlethen or Stonehaven. I do regularly with friends. Leave the car in the portlethen car park and take the train.
A station in the village will be a novelty for a while and then when people realise they still got to get to work from abdn station they will revert back to the trusted automobile. You never see people loaded down with markies carrier bags on the train either.
Hiya, don't think it as been a proper topic at cc meets for a while but I emailed NESTRANs about it a few weeks back when it was being discussed on here. Basically Newtonhill is in the Crossrail project for getting a station in about 2012 as Melanie said. At the moment the project has just had the funding to undertake all the necessary detailed assessments for the whole project which I suppose will take a while.
Suppose one problem to think of is that it won't just be about reopening a station cos there will then be a car parking issue....
diane x
Yes, the Community Council is pursuing the issue and I believe (and could be corrected) that it is proposed for 2012. No idea where it is to be built though.
Perhaps consulting the CC's minutes would be more helpful.