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 The 2006 planned route of GARL from Paisley to Glasgow Airport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| System | ScotRail | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Number of tracks | Double track | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Glasgow Airport Rail Link (GARL) is a proposed link between Glasgow City Centre and Glasgow Airport. The original plans for an airport rail link were proposed during the 2000s to directly link Glasgow Central station with Glasgow Airport in Scotland. The link was intended for completion by 2013 and would have had a service of four trains per hour via Paisley Gilmour Street railway station.[1]
On 17 September 2009 the rail link was cancelled as part of public spending cuts.[2]
In 2014, proposals were in place to resurrect the project dependent on the outcome of the Scottish independence referendum.[3]
In October 2016, plans were resurrected to build a railway link to Glasgow Airport. The journey time of 16.5 minutes has also been proposed.[4] Under current plans the line would be opened in 2025.[5]
In 2019, it was proposed to deliver the project as part of a wider Clyde Metro network, using a new light rail line via Govan.[6]
- ^ "Glasgow Airport Rail Link". Transport Scotland. Archived from the original on 11 June 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
- ^ "Ministers scrap airport rail plan". BBC News Online. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 17 September 2009.
Scottish Government has scrapped the £120m Glasgow Airport Rail Link amid public spending cut concerns.
- ^ Hetherington, Peter (22 July 2014). "Glasgow puts 'city deal' before Scottish independence". The Guardian Online. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
- ^ "£80million rail link could take travellers from new station to Glasgow Airport". Evening Times. 13 October 2016.
- ^ "Work will begin on trams to Glasgow Airport in 2022 as council leaders approve £144m rail link plan". Glasgow Live. 12 December 2016. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- ^ "Glasgow Airport link with Paisley Gilmour Street to be explored". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 31 October 2019.