Video: How to survive the Queen Street tunnel closure


The tunnel outside Glasgow’s Queen Street station is set to close for five months for essential works, with upgrades to the tunnel allowing swifter, longer electric trains to operate on the Edinburgh-Glasgow mainline.
Diversions will mean most journeys taking up to 25 minutes longer with queuing systems in place to enter and exit Queen Street’s Lower level station.
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The first of seven new train sets, they will add 21 extra carriages and more than 14,000 additional seats to the current ScotRail fleet.
Alastair and Rob’s discussion covers alternative routes, why the work is needed and how the queueing system at Queen Street will work.