We wait to hear the 26/27 budget announcement in parliament tomorrow. We hope to hear good news. Newburgh has waited 15 years for a yes. It really is time that the town, AND other rural communities like it, get connected to rail.

Fiona and John, can we have a station please?

Perhaps she won't. But maybe she will!

Transport Scotland have had the Newburgh station business case for a year. Odd. It is not complicated. It makes no mention of shopping malls or space ports. It simply highlights the huge benefits a small unmanned modular station can bring to our community.

A mock up of a British rail station sign with Newburgh as the name. A little promo message is nailed to the front

@fifecouncil.bsky.social

Mark Ruskell, Scottish Green MSP has made amends to a Conservative transport motion. he suggests that sustainable, public transport and active travel should be priortised over large-scale road building. He writes about reconnecting communities such as Newburgh to the rail network

A train station for Newburgh will be one for many other small rural communities that could be connected to rail. They don't need £22m of full-featured station. A simple 15-75m platform will do. This could be a sustainable revolution in simple access to rail in rural places

Scottish Transport Minister Fiona Hyslop is set to visit Newburgh in Fife next month at the invitation of local MSPs to see how a reopened train station would galvanise the local economy.

The MSP will be accompanied by Fife Council, Sustrans and the New Train Station Campaign.