- RAILWORKS 3 GLASGOW AIRPORT RAIL LINK AND CLASS 380 DRIVER
- RAILWORKS 3 GLASGOW AIRPORT RAIL LINK AND CLASS 380 PROFESSIONAL
This simulation was built using a professional derivative of the railway simulator Train Simulator / RailWorks.
RAILWORKS 3 GLASGOW AIRPORT RAIL LINK AND CLASS 380 DRIVER
On 17 September 2009, the Scottish Government scrapped the airport branch component of the Glasgow Airport Rail Link amid concerns over the need for public spending cuts however, some elements of the project (capacity enhancement, resignalling, and a new platform at Glasgow Central) were taken forward to completion.Īs part of the driver training programme for the route and new rolling stock, design and media company TotalizeMedia were hired to create a simulation of the infrastructure. With the latter project cancelled, the additional units will be put to use on other services in the future. Subsequently, on 11 July 2008, Transport Scotland announced that 38 Class 380 trains have been ordered for use on Ayrshire and Inverclyde services and also the Glasgow Airport Rail Link. In April 2008, First ScotRail placed a bid to tender for a new build of railway carriages for the SPT network of 120 vehicles. First ScotRail formerly used 4-car British Rail Class 322 units on its Glasgow Central/ Edinburgh Waverley to North Berwick service - themselves ex-airport rail link trains, having been originally built to serve Stansted Airport near London. However, speculation surrounds actual rolling stock plans for GARL with the likelihood of First ScotRail using 4-car EMUs rather than a traditional 3-car unit. In the proposals drawn up by Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, Class 334 units are shown to work the route. In December 2008, Transport Scotland announced that the tender competition will begin in spring 2009, meaning GARL would have been operational in early 2013. Overhead catenary work and a re-modelling of Shields Junction over the past year have already taken place in connection with GARL.
In 2008, control of the GARL project passed from SPT to Transport Scotland who would have overseen the building of the route. In May 2008, First ScotRail announced that the Shotts Line had been route cleared for Class 158 and Class 170 DMU trains to operate on the line and that an increase in services was likely in the near future. The scheme was also criticised for the absence of direct connections to the rest of the Scottish railway network which would bypass Glasgow Central - historically the two options for doing this have been Glasgow Crossrail and the electrification of the Shotts Line to Edinburgh. Using a one-piece bridge design, GARL was to cross the M8 motorway and into the airport. After much discussion, SPT assured local residents that the playing fields would be returned to original use, with even better facilities such as under-soil drainage and new changing rooms. The most controversial proposal in the scheme was the building of the line on a viaduct over playing fields in the Paisley St.
Resembling a return to the layout previous to Electrification of the Ayrshire Coast Line A re-alignment of the track layout at Wallneuk Junction near Paisley Gilmour Street would also have been required. GARL would have added to this congestion to alleviate any problems a third track was to be installed between Shields Junction (the main depot for trains running on the SPT network) and Arkleston Junction, east of Paisley. The Ayrshire and Inverclyde lines are very busy with passenger and freight traffic. The cost of the route was estimated at £170m, with inflation increasing the cost to a potential £210m. Construction was to be in phases with the re-location of football pitches in the route's path at Paisley St James scheduled for 2007, before route clearing and track work in 20.
The Scottish Parliament on 29 November 2006 passed the GARL bill by 118 votes to 8, thus allowing the construction of the route to begin. It would then have run along the Inverclyde Line branching-off just before Paisley St James, onto a new purpose-built 1.2 mile (1.9 km) line which would have taken it over the M8 motorway into the airport station, situated close to the main terminal building at Glasgow Airport. GARL would have run from a reconstructed Platform 12 at Glasgow Central on the former Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway, Ayrshire Coast Line and Inverclyde Line via Cardonald, Hillington East and Hillington West, to Paisley Gilmour Street station.
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