Final tracks on the Airdrie Bathgate line laid

Submitted by edg on Fri, 27 Aug '10 7.01pm

Hugh Wark, Senior Project Manager (left) and Alan Macmillan, Scheme Sponsor (right) install the final 'golden' pandral clip on the Airdrie-Bathgate line on the morning of 27 August. The 15 miles of new track now link passenger branch lines to Airdrie and Bathgate for the first time in more than fifty years and is the longest passenger line with new stations to be built on it in 100 years.