Campaigners from Scotland’s fastest growing town have taken their fight to Holyrood with a simple message for the country’s politicians; that their community is being swamped and they need a railway station.
They live in Winchburgh, which was once a small village in West Lothian but is now a booming community on the edge of a rapidly expanding greater Edinburgh. Ten years ago the old shale mining town, which has a history stretching back more than 1,000 years, was home to 2,400 people. Now the population is nearly 5,000 and it is expected to reach 14,000 in the near future.
New developments on the west of Scotland’s capital will bring tens of thousands more people into the area. The developer Crosswind has submitted plans for
