Over the Christmas and New Year period, Network Rail will be carrying out more than £16m worth of improvements to the railway network in Scotland.

Work will be taking place at a number of locations including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, Perth and Inverness.

From Christmas Day to the 2nd of January, work will take place on the line into Glasgow Queen Street High Level to renew points and replace 1km of track at Cadder. Some service will still run, but alternative services will also be available between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

From New Year’s Day until the 4th January, work will take place between Muirhouse and Eglinton Street, near Glasgow Central to renew junctions and life-expired track.

Work on track, signalling and level crossings will take place in Stirlingshire, and track at Perth and Inverness stations will be improved.

Passengers should check www.nationalrail.co.uk to see if their journeys should be affected.

Kris Kinnear, Network Rail Scotland’s capital delivery director, said: “The work we are undertaking over the festive period is vital to the long-term future of Scotland’s Railway and part of a £4bn investment being made in Scotland’s rail infrastructure between now and 2024.

“These projects will help make our railway more resilient, more reliable and more sustainable, but such complex infrastructure improvements cannot be delivered without some short-term closures of the railway.

“We’re urging passengers who need to travel over the festive period to plan ahead and check how these works may affect their journey this December and early January.”

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