Edinburgh Evening News Morning Update 1 September, 2025

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00:00This is your morning update for Monday 1st September 2025.

00:05Brought to you by the Edinburgh Evening News.

00:09Campaign for Edinburgh's South Sub to reopen and link with new North-South tramline.

00:14A new campaign has been launched to reopen Edinburgh's South Sub railline with tram trains which could also run on the city's tramlines.

00:21Supporters say services on the railline, where regular passenger services were scrapped in 1962,

00:26could then link into the proposed new North-South tramline from Granton to the Royal Infirmary and beyond.

00:33It comes after a well-received study by civil engineering postgraduates at Harriet Watt University.

00:38Earlier this year, set out detailed proposals on how a reopened South Sub line could work,

00:43with four tram trains an hour in each direction and a total of 11 stations, including five new ones, along the route.

00:51Thousands do to march through Edinburgh in national demonstration over war in Gaza.

00:55Thousands of people are expected to march through Edinburgh next weekend in a protest over the war in Gaza.

01:01Organisers, stop the war.

01:03Scotland say the march on Saturday, September 6th,

01:06will be a national demonstration demanding an end to UK arms sales to Israel,

01:10a full Scottish boycott of Israel, and the defence of the right to protest.

01:15The march will set off from the mound at 2pm,

01:18and proceed to a rally at the UK government headquarters in Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth House.

01:22Peak time train travel in Scotland now cheaper.

01:27Rush hour train travel in Scotland has become cheaper as peak fares are scrapped for good.

01:32As of Monday, September 1st, commuters on ScotRail services pay the same fare no matter what time they travel.

01:38The fare from Edinburgh Waverly to Glasgow Queen Street has almost halved from £32.60 to £16.80.

01:45And tickets between Edinburgh Waverly and Inverkeithing have come down from £12.60 to £7.40,

01:53a reduction of 41%.

01:54For more news, go to edinborownews.scotsman.com.