At least the train was on time. After a fraught few days when ministers were, again, forced to defend the Scottish Government's role in a flagship transport fiasco, the 12.15 from Glasgow's refurbished Queen Street left Platform 7 for Edinburgh Waverley bang on schedule.
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Next Friday (April 1), the operation of the ScotRail franchise will transfer from Abellio ScotRail to ScotRail Trains, a publicly owned company.
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Abellio ScotRail says the pandemic lockdown had a 'significant' impact on its performance last year.
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Scottish transport minister Humza Yousaf has called for 'immediate improvement' in Scotland's rail services as ScotRail's performance improvement plan was published in full.
The Scottish government had come under pressure from opposition parties, including Scottish Labour, to reveal the details of the improvement plan due to a plague of recent problems affecting Abellio ScotRail services, including a train breakdown near Edinburgh and overhead wiring issues near Glasgow.
ScotRail's 249-point plan includes measures to improve punctuality and reliability through various local and national initiatives such as numerous infrastructure developments, better communication with customers and the launch of an 'On Time Every Second Counts' campaign.
Yousaf, who visited Edinburgh Waverley Station before speaking at a rail conference, said that he was 'delighted' that the plan was being published, hoping that the publication will spur 'immediate improvement' in ScotRail's performance.
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Rail passengers in the Highlands have been reassured that the region would not lose modern carriages to a new railway in the Borders. A spokeswoman for Abellio ScotRail said all but one of Class 158 trains would continue serving the north.
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