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With respect to the Tay Bridge that is sort of my patch as i work in network rail train planning and Scotland is my area. The average time for an Edinburgh Aberdeen service is 2'40'' with Dundee near as spit halfway. If you went Dundee - Perth - Ladybank you would probably add 30 min to the journey if not more and Ladybank Perth is a LONG single track section that would kill capacety (?). I dont know what the time would be Edinburgh - Stirling - Perth - Dundee - Aberdeen, but i would not be suprised if it came out at 3'30'' or more and that would mean the car would just slaughter the railway. The private car was not on the scene when the Forth and Tay bridges were built, but tourist passenger traffic to the Highlands was a lucrative market to be in. The Caledonian Railway conected with the LNWR at Carlisle and could run via Motherwell - Mossend - Stirling - Perth - Montrose - Aberdeen. The North British Railway connected with the NER at Berwick and before the opening of the bridges the route was Edinburgh - South Queensferry, boat to North Queensferry, train across Fife, boat across the Firth of Tay, train Dundee - Aberdeen.
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