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Edinburgh City to Edinburgh Airport
Is their train service from Edinbugh City Centre to the Edinburgh
Airport? I went to the airport's web site and the following was the web page on getting to and from the airport by train: "Edinburgh's main railway station (Waverly) is in the city centre and can be reached by taxi or bus. From here there are services to Glasgow and a variety of other destinations in Scotland and England. Most train services also operate from Edinburgh Haymarket station which is on the main bus route between the airport and city centre." It discusses a bus between the airport and the city, but no where does it say "Yes, there is train service to the airport" or "No, there is no train service to the airport" We have a Sunday moring 9:00am flight in mid May. In lots of cities, public transportation on a Sunday morning is hard to find. Taxis are also hard to find. So I want to make sure I can get to the airport. Any advice would be helpful. *** Free account sponsored by SecureIX.com *** *** Encrypt your Internet usage with a free VPN account from http://www.SecureIX.com *** |
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Edinburgh City to Edinburgh Airport
rvfulltime wrote:
Is their train service from Edinbugh City Centre to the Edinburgh Airport? No. I went to the airport's web site and the following was the web page on getting to and from the airport by train: "Edinburgh's main railway station (Waverly) is in the city centre and can be reached by taxi or bus. From here there are services to Glasgow and a variety of other destinations in Scotland and England. Most train services also operate from Edinburgh Haymarket station which is on the main bus route between the airport and city centre." I agree that it's not clear, but it does say the stations can be reached by taxi or bus from the airport- they should have made it clearer that the airport doesn't have a station itself! It discusses a bus between the airport and the city, but no where does it say "Yes, there is train service to the airport" or "No, there is no train service to the airport" We have a Sunday moring 9:00am flight in mid May. In lots of cities, public transportation on a Sunday morning is hard to find. Taxis are also hard to find. So I want to make sure I can get to the airport. Shouldn't be a problem by bus, assuming you're close to the route. Otherwise, I've found taxis reliable when ordered by telephone in Edinburgh. For bus info- http://www.flybybus.com/ -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org |
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Edinburgh City to Edinburgh Airport
Is their train service from Edinbugh City Centre to the Edinburgh
Airport? No. The main line north over the Forth Bridge goes within a few *yards* of the end of the runway but we are continually told it'd take tens of millions and the building of a complete new line to get a rail service to the airport. Yeah, right. We have a Sunday moring 9:00am flight in mid May. In lots of cities, public transportation on a Sunday morning is hard to find. Taxis are also hard to find. So I want to make sure I can get to the airport. Shouldn't be a problem by bus, assuming you're close to the route. The night bus service has been improved recently so it should be doable from many places way outside the city - I'm eight or nine miles from the city centre but could easily get an early morning flight using buses only. Otherwise, I've found taxis reliable when ordered by telephone in Edinburgh. They are. They have also been given such extraordinary special deals (flagrantly illegal under current EU competition law) that there is obviously some deeply criminal corruption about the service going back decades. Mainly, the mysterious absence of a competing railway. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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Edinburgh City to Edinburgh Airport
Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
Is their train service from Edinbugh City Centre to the Edinburgh Airport? No. The main line north over the Forth Bridge goes within a few *yards* of the end of the runway but we are continually told it'd take tens of millions and the building of a complete new line to get a rail service to the airport. Yeah, right. I agree- it would seem obvious to just build a a station around that, but I seem to remember reading on another group (uk.railways) that it was more complicated than it seemed. We have a Sunday moring 9:00am flight in mid May. In lots of cities, public transportation on a Sunday morning is hard to find. Taxis are also hard to find. So I want to make sure I can get to the airport. Shouldn't be a problem by bus, assuming you're close to the route. The night bus service has been improved recently so it should be doable from many places way outside the city - I'm eight or nine miles from the city centre but could easily get an early morning flight using buses only. That's good to know. -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org |
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Edinburgh City to Edinburgh Airport
If they say the station is in the city centre, then it follows there
is no station at the airport, doesn't it? There are direct buses, as your quote indicates, which, as the website indicates, run through the night. Airport managers don't customarily make it difficult to use their services. PJW On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 16:19:28 -0600, rvfulltime wrote: Is their train service from Edinbugh City Centre to the Edinburgh Airport? I went to the airport's web site and the following was the web page on getting to and from the airport by train: "Edinburgh's main railway station (Waverly) is in the city centre and can be reached by taxi or bus. From here there are services to Glasgow and a variety of other destinations in Scotland and England. Most train services also operate from Edinburgh Haymarket station which is on the main bus route between the airport and city centre." It discusses a bus between the airport and the city, but no where does it say "Yes, there is train service to the airport" or "No, there is no train service to the airport" We have a Sunday moring 9:00am flight in mid May. In lots of cities, public transportation on a Sunday morning is hard to find. Taxis are also hard to find. So I want to make sure I can get to the airport. Any advice would be helpful. *** Free account sponsored by SecureIX.com *** *** Encrypt your Internet usage with a free VPN account from http://www.SecureIX.com *** |
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Edinburgh City to Edinburgh Airport
Patrick Wallace wrote:
If they say the station is in the city centre, then it follows there is no station at the airport, doesn't it? There are direct buses, as your quote indicates, which, as the website indicates, run through the night. Airport managers don't customarily make it difficult to use their services. Yes, but when the website has the sub-directory "To and from our airport" and then the _first_ category is "by Train" that seems a bit disingenuous to me. They could at least have began by noting that the airport doesn't have a train station- the wording could confuse some readers, as it clearly did. -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org |
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Edinburgh City to Edinburgh Airport
I believe the bus from the airport to the centre is only £5.
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Edinburgh City to Edinburgh Airport
Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
Is their train service from Edinbugh City Centre to the Edinburgh Airport? No. The main line north over the Forth Bridge goes within a few *yards* of the end of the runway but we are continually told it'd take tens of millions and the building of a complete new line to get a rail service to the airport. Yeah, right. SNIP For details of the official proposals for providing direct rail access to Edinburgh airport, and news of progress on implementing them, see : http://www.earlproject.com/ Regards, - Alan (in Brussels) |
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Edinburgh City to Edinburgh Airport
"Wiener Sänger" wrote in message roups.com... I believe the bus from the airport to the centre is only £5. Only? You consider that cheap in your world? |
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Edinburgh City to Edinburgh Airport
I believe the bus from the airport to the centre is only £5.
It's a bit less than that, I think. Cheaper if you get a return fare.. If you're not in a hurry it's cheaper to get the no.35 city bus, but it takes a devious route (threading through a business park) and takes an hour to get there. ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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