North Berwick Line

North Berwick Line
300px The terminus of the line at North Berwick
Overview
Type	Commuter rail Regional rail Heavy rail
System	National Rail
Locale	Edinburgh / East Lothian, Scotland
Termini	Edinburgh Waverley North Berwick / Dunbar
Stations	8
Operation
Owner	Network Rail
Operator(s)	Abellio ScotRail
Depot(s)	Glasgow Shields Road
Rolling stock	Class 158 "Express Sprinter" (for use on some Saturday Dunbar Services) Class 170 "Turbostar" (For use on one weekday evening peak time train and for use on Saturday Dunbar Services on most occasions) Class 380 "Desiro" (All other Services) Class 385 From December 2017
Technical
No. of tracks	Double-track from Waverley to Drem Single-track from Drem to North Berwick
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Electrification	25 kV 50 Hz AC

North Berwick Line
Legend
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The North Berwick Line is a railway line linking Edinburgh with North Berwick in Scotland. The route follows the East Coast Main Line as far as Drem where it then branches to the north.

The section between Drem and Edinburgh Waverley shares the track with the Virgin Trains East Coast London Kings Cross - Edinburgh Waverley service. It consists of all or part of the following Network Rail routes:

• SC 147 from Edinburgh Waverley
• SC 149 from Drem Junction to North Berwick

Passenger services are operated by Abellio ScotRail. The line is electrified at 25 kV AC overhead.

Services

Most services run between North Berwick and Edinburgh Waverley, with peak-time services continuing to Haymarket and 2 services a day continuing through to Glasgow Central and onwards to Ayr. Service is generally hourly between 7am and 7pm, with half hourly service at peak time and on Saturdays, and a reduced hourly service on weekday evenings and Sundays.

Although incorporated into the same timetable from May 2010, ScotRail provide services to Dunbar; however, these typically did not stop at intermediate stations. From May 2011, all ScotRail services to/from Dunbar now stop at Musselburgh. These services run two hourly during Mondays-Saturdays with an additional late night service.

Rolling stock

The Class 380 "Desiro" has been using the route since June 2011. They replaced the Class 322's in which they finished service on this line in August the same year after 6 years. They have been cascaded onto the Wakefield Line with Northern Rail. Due to the amount of 380's taking on the half hourly North Berwick services during Saturdays, a Class 170 "Turbostar" regularly takes on these Services to Dunbar. They can sometimes run to North Berwick because of ScotRail's lack of EMUs based in Edinburgh. Occasionally, a Class 158 "Express Sprinter" may run along this route due to the same reason as for a Class 170.

From December 2017, ScotRail Services on the North Berwick Line will begin to use new Class 385 Units, Services will be formed of six coaches (Two 3-car units) following growing Passenger Numbers (The Platform at North Berwick is to be extended during 2016 to accommodate these new longer trains), in the short term Class 380/1s (four car) may be removed from the line and 2x Class 380/0s (three car) inserted instead until the new trains arrive, Once the New Units arrive, The Class 380 Units will be cascaded to Increase Capacity on the Ayrshire and Inverclyde Lines to and from Glasgow making all services on these routes operated by Class 380's.

Historical route

As with many contemporary routes, trains on this line run on the metals of several historical routes:

• North Berwick Branch between North Berwick and Drem
• NBR Main Line between Drem and Edinburgh Waverley
• Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway between Edinburgh Waverley and Haymarket
• CR Main Line - Carstairs to Edinburgh between Haymarket and Carstairs
• CR Main Line - Carstairs to Greenhill Junction between Carstairs and Motherwell
• Clydesdale Junction Railway between Motherwell and Rutherglen
• Polloc and Govan Railway between Rutherglen and Glasgow Central approaches

See also

• List of places in East Lothian
• List of places in Scotland

External links

• Edinburgh - North Berwick/Dunbar timetable