Plans for an extended Edinburgh to Perth rail service have been halted.
Scotrail revealed the decision after their recent public consultation on train services.
Edinburgh Live reported last week that Scotrail now intend to run more services from Edinburgh to place like Glasgow, and the Borders but Scotrail also had some bad news for Edinburgh commuters, hoping to get to places like Dunfermline.
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As first revealed in August 2021, the plans to extend the Edinburgh to Perth service were met with local criticism.
The Perth to Edinburgh service set to travel via Dunfermline – upping the journey time to one hour and 40 minutes.
The main service between Inverness and Edinburgh going via Perth would have travelled via Stirling – where passengers would have to change trains.
Service changes between Perth and Kirkcaldy were also set to see a wait of at least half an hour at Ladybank for a connecting train.
The rail operator had planned to cut its services to alleviate a £243 million annual deficit, with the timetable to start in May 2022.
Then ScotRail received an unprecedented number of responses in their consultation, with 521 writing in to share their views on services between Edinburgh, Fife, Perth and Dundee.
As a result the new timetable they have climbed down and the new route will instead see the Perth and Edinburgh service take a more direct route, via Kirkcaldy, instead of Dunfermline.
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