A MULTI-MILLION pound investment is set to improve travel along a popular cross-Border rail route.
The West Coast Main Line will see the improvement works delivered over the Easter bank holiday weekend, running from Friday, March 29, to Monday, April 1.
Engineering teams will replace track on March 30 and 31 south of Glasgow between Shieldmuir Junction and Motherwell.
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Works will also take place between March 30 and April 1 in order to replace train switches between Rutherglen and Glasgow Central.
During the works, the road bridge over the railway on Shields Road in Glasgow will be demolished, but passenger services are not expected to be impacted.
On Saturday, March 30, ScotRail services from Glasgow to Lanark, Glasgow to Shotts, and Glasgow to Edinburgh via Carstairs will be replaced by bus services.
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Sunday, March 31, will see ScotRail services from Glasgow to Motherwell and Lanark replaced with buses, with TransPennine Express services not running to Glasgow and Avanti West Coast services taking a diversionary route into the city.
On Monday, April 1, ScotRail services from Glasgow to Lanark, Glasgow to Shotts, and Glasgow to Edinburgh via Carstairs will again be replaced by bus services.
Avanti West Coast services south to Lockerbie will be replaced by buses.
On March 30 and 31, CrossCountry and LNER services terminating at Edinburgh will be replaced with bus services to Motherwell.
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CrossCountry services will also be replaced by buses from Edinburgh to Motherwell on April 1.
Besides the announced bus replacements, Network Rail does not expect significant disruption to take place in Scotland, but says passengers taking ScotRail, LNER, Avanti, CrossCountry and the Caledonian Sleeper may be affected.
Travellers heading south of the Border during the works may face significant inconvenience, as London Euston station will be closed from March 29 to April 1.
All services to London will terminate at Milton Keynes instead.
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Liam Sumpter, route director of Network Rail Scotland, said: “I’m pleased that most of Scotland’s Railway network will remain open during the Easter bank holiday.
“We know how important Easter is for families and friends to catch up and, while there’s never a good time to do the work we need to do, the bank holiday is a time when fewer people travel, giving us the opportunity to do work we couldn’t do on a normal weekend.
“Our thanks go to passengers, freight users and our lineside neighbours for their patience during these works.”
Network Rail advises customers to check their journeys with train operating companies or National Rail.
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