Travel advice issued for The 150th Open Championship at St. Andrews

Golf followers travelling to St. Andrews for the a hundred and fiftieth Open Championship are being suggested that there could also be issues in travelling to the occasion by rail.

ScotRail at present has a short lived timetable in operation.

In the course of the week of The Open from Sunday, tenth to Sunday, seventeenth July there might be a really restricted variety of trains to and from Leuchars, which is the closest station to St. Andrews. On the Championship days from Thursday, 14th to Sunday, seventeenth July, trains will run roughly each 60 minutes between Edinburgh, Dundee, and Aberdeen, and Leuchars.

House on board trains might be very restricted, and there might be no rail-replacement transport accessible. Followers ought to, due to this fact, plan forward, examine their total journey, and know what various modes of transport can be found.
An area bus community, operated by Stagecoach, hyperlinks St Andrews to Dundee, Cupar, Glenrothes, and the villages across the East Neuk of Fife, in addition to an specific bus service connecting to Glasgow and Edinburgh. Extra info on bus companies could be discovered through Stagecoach at https://www.stagecoachbus.com/ and Moffat and Williamson https://moffat-williamson.co.uk/

For followers travelling to The Open by street, further Park and Experience amenities might be accessible. The AA are offering instructions to the Park & Experience websites by Variable Messaging Indicators and black and yellow occasion indicators supplied by the AA. Park and Experience tickets can be found on The Open web site.

ScotRail could have further employees to help prospects and is reminding everybody that the carrying and consumption of alcohol is prohibited on ScotRail trains and in ScotRail stations.

Phil Campbell, ScotRail Head of Buyer Operations, mentioned:

“We’re doing completely the whole lot we are able to to assist journey to the historic a hundred and fiftieth Open on the improbable Outdated Course at St Andrews, nevertheless, we urge followers to plan forward and contemplate what various transport is accessible.
“Regrettably, our non permanent timetable will nonetheless be in place all through the Championship, which suggests there might be a really restricted variety of trains to and from Leuchars – the closest station to the course.

“House on board these trains are restricted, so I’d urge followers to contemplate various modes of transport as there might be considerably lengthy queues at stations and we could not be capable to get you to the course.

“We have now labored intently with key companions, together with the R&A, Fife Council, and Transport Scotland, and can proceed to play our half throughout this main occasion.”