A direct appeal to the Scottish Government for funding to ensure Winchburgh will get a railway station is to be backed by West Lothian Council, less than a month after doubts about development were first cast.
Livingston Conservative councillor Alison Adamson told a meeting of the council’s executive that for Transport Scotland to ignore the demands of commuters would “make a mockery of active travel promotion.”
She said that residents in surrounding towns wanted the new station as much as those living in Winchburgh, and cited the surge in commuter traffic accessing stations at Linlithgow, Uphall Station and even Bathgate.
