WAVERLEY PLATFORM EXTENSION

Infrastructure News

WORK HAS been completed to extend platform 12 at Edinburgh Waverley station, with the platform now back in use for passenger services.

Located at the western side of the station, the lengthened platform will accommodate the eight-car Class 385 EMUs ScotRail plans to operate to Glasgow via Falkirk. During the work engineers demolished redundant station buildings on platforms 11 and 12 before extending platform 12 by 75 metres, so it now measures 204 metres in length.

Preparing for ‘385s’: unit No 334037 is seen waiting at the lengthened platform 12 at Edinburgh Waverley on 11 December 2017, ready to form a service to Helensburgh Central. At left, classmate No 334033 is arriving from Helensburgh at platform 10.
Ian Lothian

Network Rail says the completion of platform 12 is the first in a series of enhancements, with work completed over the Christmas period to install a new track layout between platforms 10 and 11. Platforms 5 and 6, at the east end of the station, are being extended to 275 metres in length to accommodate 10-car Virgin Trains East Coast ‘Azuma’ trains, delivered under the Department for Transport’s Inter-city Express Programme (IEP). The platform lengthening work at Waverley has been delivered by Carillion under contract to Network Rail.