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The transport minister has dismissed fears that ScotRail chaos caused by a shortage of train drivers could last weeks, while saying the temporary timetable has been delivering a 'reliable service'.
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Furious travellers have hit out at ScotRail shambles after hundreds of services were cancelled on Sunday due to shortage of drivers.
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The nationalised ScotRail recruitment 'scandal' that has caused massive cuts to train services will not be resolved for five years, it is feared.
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Stagecoach Highland will run a bus between Inverness and Caithness to pick up passengers stranded by ScotRail cuts.
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ScotRail has warned that even if the ongoing driver pay dispute is resolved soon, services will not return to normal for at least 10 days.
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The last train home for Scots on a Saturday night out has been brought forward by four hours in some parts amidst ongoing nationalised ScotRail disruption due to the train drivers' dispute.
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MSP Jamie Greene says businesses will need to be compensated for the drastic cut to local rail services.
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Passengers aboard the 12.22pm train from Glasgow Queen Street to Oban today have raised concerns about overcrowding.
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Train drivers have been offered an improved 4.2% pay offer by ScotRail to try and end the crippling newly nationalised ScotRail pay dispute which has seen a third of services cut.
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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar raised the plight of commuters having to fork out for taxis due to the rail crisis.
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Swinney said he was 'very confident' extra services would be put on for the Scotland v Ukraine match next week.
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Temporary ScotRail service cuts will 'undeniably' result in more people driving cars, an environmental campaign group fears.
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ScotRail will commence formal talks with rail union Aslef over a pay dispute that forced the operator to introduce an emergency timetable and cut 1,000 weekly services.
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ScotRail is under mounting pressure to improve the 'unusable skeleton service' operating on the Far North Line between Inverness and Caithness following temporary cuts.
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Gig-goers are said to be cancelling tickets as their last train leaves before headline acts start.
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State-controlled ScotRail cancelled or curtailed more than 60 train trips due to driver shortages on the day over a third of services were scrapped 'to give greater certainty' to the public.
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Passengers on the West Highland Line and the Far North Rail Line are raising concerns about lack of ScotRail trains to take them to hospital appointments in the cities.
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The recovery of Edinburgh's festivals from the pandemic is being threatened by the prospect of strike action by railway workers targeting the citys events, organisers have warned.
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Representatives from across the political spectrum have called for full-time train services between Alloa and Glasgow to be reinstated.
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A reduced timetable began this morning, with more than 700 services cut across the country.
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The Scottish Government has said work is under way to recruit more train drivers and reliance on rest-day working must stop.
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Almost 700 train services are temporarily removed after a pay row triggered a wave of driver shortages.
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ScotRails reduced timetable is due to begin today, with more than 700 services cut across the country.
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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar takes a swipe at the savage cut to rail services in his latest column for the Daily Record.
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Tartan Army footsoldiers have been urged to check their travel plans after ScotRail cancelled a number of Glasgow services. So far, 38 rail services have been axed as ScotRail reported a 'shortage of train crew'.
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