2000
StARLink News | 2001

Starlink still on track

Sunday, 31 December 2000
Fife Council officials have not written off the idea of a St Andrews railway, despite the Fife & South Tayside Rail Study’s conclusion that there was no case for it. Read More...

Significant differences in Golflink percentages

Saturday, 30 September 2000
Further information about the use of Golflink confirms there was a massive difference between usage of the Golflink service to the Open at Carnoustie last year and to St Andrews this year.
In 1999 a total of 40,955 out of the 157,000 attendees travelled to Carnoustie via Golflink, giving a percentge of 26.1%. Usage over the four days of the competition at St Andrews this year averaged 15%, with 29,500 attendees travelling via Golflink.
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Lib-Dem council leader backs Starlink

Thursday, 31 August 2000
In the aftermath of the Open Championship, Liberal Democrat Cllr Elizabeth Harris, Leader of the Opposition on Fife Council, added her voice to calls for St Andrews to be reconnected to the rail network. As reported in the St Andrews Citizen (11th August 2000), Cllr Harris praised the organisation of the championship and all concerned with it, but added that the town’s infrastructure needed to be improved if the town were to host the event more frequently. It has been suggested that after its next visit in 2005, the Open will return to St Andrews every four years. Read More...

Doubts cast on rail study

Wednesday, 30 August 2000
Concerns about the validity of the Scott Wilson study into a St Andrews railway were publicly aired in the Dundee Courier (3rd August 2000), The Scotsman (4th August 2000) and the St Andrews Citizen (11th August 2000), when the string of factual inaccuracies plus the exceedingly limited nature of the investigation were revealed. Read More...

Golflink numbers down

Monday, 31 July 2000
Despite the record attendances at this year’s Open in St Andrews, the number of people using the Golflink service to the course was actually down on last year – and Scotrail has apparently conceded that the fact that the train only ran to Leuchars, 5 miles from the course, was a factor. Read More...