How many rail services between (a) Glasgow and Inverness and (b) Edinburgh and Inverness will have a 17-minute reduction in journey time fr…

The following tables show details of the rail services operating between Glasgow and Edinburgh and Inverness which have journey time reductions which were introduced in the Winter 2012 timetable on 9 December 2012. In answer to your question, table 2 details one Sunday service which has a 17 minute reduction. In finalising the timetable changes we have also delivered another Sunday service which is 18 minutes faster.
The tables also give the information you requested in S4W-11775 and table 5 shows that we have improved journey times for 70% of all services operating over seven days between Glasgow and Edinburgh and Inverness. More than a third of services are now more than 5 minutes faster.
Together with the 2 extra services, each way, delivered in December 2011, these journey time improvements complete phase one of the Highland Main Line improvements project. Phase 2 will deliver further journey time improvements and extra services between 2014 and 2019 as specified in the High Level Output Specification (HLOS) published on 21 June 2012.
HML Journey Time Reductions

a) Between Glasgow and Inverness

Table 1

Monday
- Saturday services

Depart Inverness
Arrive Glasgow
Journey time reduction from December 2012

Depart Glasgow
Arrive Inverness
06:50
10:14
08:45
12:09
14:49
18:09
15:53
19:16
18:46
22:20
1
- 5 mins

10:41
14:10

13:41
16:54

17:41
21:01

19:41
23:10









17:30
20:45




6
- 10mins

07:10
10:26

08:41
11:57

15:10
18:21






12:53
16:14
11
- 16 mins

18:11
21:26







Table 2

Sunday services

Depart Inverness
Arrive Glasgow
Journey time reduction from December 2012

Depart Glasgow
Arrive Inverness
13:30
18:12
1
- 5 mins

14:40
17:45






10:50
14:11
12:45
15:58
16:24
19:41
6
- 10mins

13:45
17:27

18:10
21:24





11
- 16 mins

15:45
19:05


17 mins

09:37
12:57
18:51
22:18
18 mins




























b) Between Edinburgh and Inverness

Table 3

Monday – Saturday services

Depart Inverness
Arrive Edinburgh
Journey time reduction from December 2012

Depart Edinburgh
Arrive Inverness
06:50
10:02
15:53
19:21
18:46
22:19
1 – 5 mins

10:36
14:10
E Coast
16:32
20:06

17:42
21:01






12:53
16:22
17:30
21:20






6 – 10mins

06:33
10:26

08:35
11:57

13:36
16:54

14:35
18:21

19:44
23:10







Table 4


Sunday services



Depart Inverness
Arrive Edinburgh
Journey time reduction from December 2012

Depart Edinburgh
Arrive Inverness
13:30
16:44
15:22
18:36
18:51
22:19
1
- 5 mins















10:50
14:12
6
- 10 mins

















11
- 16 mins

09:33
12:57

13:56
17:27

15:50
19:05
E Coast
16:31
20:08

Table 5
Out of 266 services over 7 days between Glasgow and Edinburgh and Inverness
Number
Percentage
Cumulative Percentage

18 minutes faster
1
0.4%
0.4%

17 minutes faster
1
0.4%
0.8%

11-16 minutes faster
17
6.4%
7.2%

6-10 minutes faster
72
27.1%
34.3%

1-5 minutes faster
95
35.7%
70.0%


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