National Express, holder of the ScotRail franchise, is to receive £5.4m (expanding to £100m) for 22 new 3-car diesel trains and driver training. Recent funding has already been awarded for 4 trains for SPT and 2 for Edinburgh Park services, this brings the total number of new trains to 28.

ScotRail's performance is to be tightened and ticket barriers introduced (by the end of 2003) at Glasgow Queen Street, Edinburgh Haymarket and Edinburgh Waverley.

10 of the new trains will be additional to the fleet, 12 will replace ageing trains such as the class 150 Sprinters.
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Class 334 driver training started 27 November, and in December Alstom received certification for test-running to commence in multiple. On 20 December Adtranz agreed to undertake a modifications programme to improve the reliability of ScotRail Turbostars. The ScotRail Class 158 refurbishment programme is now nearing completion at Shields, and Class 150/2s are emerging in the new ScotRail livery. The new station building at Largs came into use in mid-December.
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