The Borders Railway will be closed over three weekends next month, so that parts of the line can be electrified. The scheme was announced in September last year by transport secretary Fiona Hyslop as part of an investment of 342 million pounds in electrification and electric trains for Glasgow, Fife and the Borders Railway, which was reopened in September 2015.

Trains are running again between Horsham and Dorking (Main) this morning, after more than two weeks of disruption caused by a landslip. The route was closed on 27 January after the slip at Ockley had left two lines hanging in the air. The soil had given way along a nine-metre section of embankment leaving the lines unsupported in a ‘rotational failure’. Network Rail attributed the slip to heavy rain, following a wet winter.