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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.
(Permalink) ASLEF Driver shortage Overtime Rest days ScotRail Timetabling

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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Scotland's transport minister has said she knows how infuriating it is when trains are cancelled.
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The Transport minister has said she does not want problems with train services to go on for a minute longer and has denied cuts lasting until Summer 2023 as a third of services are to be cut.
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ScotRail strikes have been going on for weeks, and they look set to continue even longer ...
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