Committee
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill Committee, 14 Mar 2007
14 Mar 2007 · S2 · Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill Committee
Item of business
Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill: Consideration Stage
Amendments 14 and 15 relate to the relocation of the rail freight depot at Boghall, which is provided for in the bill. The existing depot is situated close to Bathgate station and is used as a car stabling yard. However, the construction of the relocated Bathgate station and the associated track work will require part of the depot site. That would leave EWS Railway, the site owner, with an area of land too small to support a viable car transfer facility. Public policy is to preserve and provide strategic rail freight sites. Network Rail has identified a replacement site and the bill includes provision for the compulsory acquisition of the alternative site, which is nearby. We reported on that in our preliminary stage report.Amendment 14 corrects the name English Welsh and Scottish Railway Limited, as it appears in section 8, to EWS Railway. That is the company in which the relocated rail freight depot that is to be used as the car stabling yard will be vested.Amendment 15 states that the authorised undertaker will give EWS Railway not less than 28 days' notice that the works provided for in section 8 have been completed. That will be notified to EWS in writing with a certificate. In the event of any dispute arising around the completion of the works, the arbitration provisions that have been added to section 6 by amendment 4 will also apply to section 8.I move amendment 14.
In the same item of business
The Convener (Phil Gallie):
Con
Welcome to the third and final meeting in 2007 of the Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill Committee. The meeting is quorate; we have a full...
Sections 1 and 2 agreed to.
Schedule 1Scheduled works
The Convener:
Con
Amendment 1, in the name of Cathy Peattie, is in a group on its own.
Cathy Peattie (Falkirk East) (Lab):
Lab
Amendment 1 corrects a typographical error in the numbering of one of the works relating to the construction of a new cycle path, which was incorrectly descr...
Amendment 1 agreed to.
Schedule 1, as amended, agreed to.
Section 3 agreed to.
Schedule 2 agreed to.
Section 4—Permitted deviation within limits
The Convener:
Con
Amendment 2, in the name of Janis Hughes, is in a group on its own.
Janis Hughes (Glasgow Rutherglen) (Lab):
Lab
Section 4 permits the authorised undertaker, when constructing the railway works, to deviate at any place from the levels provided. The authorised undertaker...
Amendment 2 agreed to.
Section 4, as amended, agreed to.
Section 5 agreed to.
Section 6—Construction, maintenance and vesting of new or altered roads and vesting of bus lay-by, car parks and cyclepath
The Convener:
Con
Amendment 3, in the name of Jeremy Purvis, is grouped with amendments 4 to 13, 16, 43 and 48.
Jeremy Purvis (Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale) (LD):
LD
All of the amendments in this group are concerned with the eventual ownership of public roads and private accesses that are to be built by the authorised und...
Amendment 3 agreed to.
Amendment 4 moved—Jeremy Purvis and agreed to.
Section 6, as amended, agreed to.
Section 7—Vesting of private roads
Amendments 5 to 7 moved—Jeremy Purvis—and agreed to.
Section 7, as amended, agreed to.
Schedule 10Roads, bus lay-by, car parks and cyclepath
Amendments 8 to 13 moved—Jeremy Purvis—and agreed to.
Schedule 10, as amended, agreed to.
Section 8—Vesting of freight depot and associated facilities
The Convener:
Con
Amendment 14, in the name of Jeremy Purvis, is grouped with amendment 15.
Jeremy Purvis:
LD
Amendments 14 and 15 relate to the relocation of the rail freight depot at Boghall, which is provided for in the bill. The existing depot is situated close t...