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A rail trade union has announced that ScotRail ticket examiners will join conductors in strike action involving not working on Sundays from the end of April.
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Abellio ScotRail says the pandemic lockdown had a 'significant' impact on its performance last year.
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There's a certain romance to train travel and in Scotland we are lucky enough to have some of the worlds most picturesque rail journeys.
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Scotland's railways face another day of disruption as ScotRail faces a third day of strike action this weekend in a bitter dispute over overtime payments.
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Ticket examiners with the RMT vote for industrial action, as conductors continue to strike in a pay row.
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Further disruption to ScotRail services was threatened today after hundreds of train ticket examiners voted to strike over being paid less for working on days off than drivers.
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News of the Scottish Government nationalising ScotRail services will have left many with mixed feelings.
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Striking conductors are to bring all ScotRail trains across the country to a halt on Sunday other than those serving the Glasgow area.
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Rail staff are furious at a 'despicable' social media campaign by ScotRail over a conductors' strike which is to cause further disruption.
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RMT union members are to hold strike days every Sunday until 2 May, in an overtime payments dispute.
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Across Scotland key train services will be cancelled every Sunday for 24 hours, starting this weekend, over a six-week period.
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ScotRail is pledging to take a zero-tolerance approach to hate crime on their services.
The train operator is supporting the new Hate Crime Charter, established by Disability Equality Scotland and partners on behalf of Transport Scotland which aims to ensure disabled people feel safe and free from hate crime, bullying and harassment when using public transport. ScotRail has already taken part in a pilot scheme to test the effectiveness of the Charter. (Permalink) Hate Crime Charter ScotRail |
ScotRail's 28,000 Club 50 members are to be given a welcome boost after the train operator announced plans to extend their memberships for free until the end of April 2022. If you signed up for Club 50 between 17 April 2019 and 17 March 2020, you qualify for the extension.
The scheme is open to the over 50s and has proven so popular that membership soared by almost 10 per cent in 2019. However, the coronavirus pandemic has meant members have been unable to take full advantage of their benefits since March 2020. (Permalink) Club 50 ScotRail |
Abellio was given the cash as part of help during the pandemic in addition to franchise payments.
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A Fife MSP has secured an assurance long-awaited improvements to the Fife Circle Line wont get lost when Scotrail services are taken back into public ownership.
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On March 17 the Scottish Government announced that it would take over the ScotRail franchise from 2022.
ScotRail has been run by Dutch firm Abellio since 2015 but criticism over performance has seen the contract cut short. (Permalink) Abellio Nationalisation ScotRail |
Switching control of ScotRail into public hands will be no panacea - it will just leave ministers with fewer people to blame when things goes wrong.
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The Scottish Government is to take over the running of ScotRail next year, Transport Secretary Michael Matheson announced to MSPs today.
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The Scottish government says ScotRail will be taken into public ownership in March 2022.
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ScotRail services will be taken into public ownership from next year, it has been confirmed.
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Scottish Labour said any extension of Abellios ScotRail operation would amount to a 'kick in the teeth for passengers' amid industry speculation the Scottish Government is considering the option.
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ScotRail faces potential disruption to its services after conductors have been being called on to strike on six Sundays in a row, starting on March 28.
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Almost £1 billion of emergency support is set to have been pumped into ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper services by March next year.
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ScotRail is helping keep Scotland's coronavirus vaccination programme on track by providing free travel tickets to around 100 St Andrews First Aid volunteers.
That's in addition to the train operator's ongoing commitment to revise its timetables to make sure as many key workers as possible are able to use the train to get to and from their work. (Permalink) COVID-19 ScotRail |
The last of ScotRails upgraded Inter7City high speed trains has arrived in Scotland.
The trains connect Scotland's seven cities, offering enhanced services for commuters, business travellers and tourists. The trains have brought increased seat and luggage capacity, power sockets in the seating areas and upgraded on-board catering, which ScotRail will be re-introducing when COVID-19 restrictions allow. (Permalink) Inter7City ScotRail |
ScotRail have confiscated 10,000 tickets and handed out £17,000 in fines to lockdown fare-dodgers in the past few months. The rail firm is cracking down on customers taking advantage of reduced staff numbers during the pandemic to avoid paying the full price of their journey.
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Scotland's Railway will be withdrawing services on some routes on Tuesday while high winds and extreme rainfall sweeps across the country.
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Rail commuters are experiencing cancellations to services travelling to and from Inverness this morning.
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The Scottish Government paid ScotRail £237.3m more subsidy between March and September last year than the corresponding period of the previous year because of Covid-19. Transport Scotland paid operator Abellio £475.1m during the Emergency Measures Agreement that operated from 1 March to September. This is twice the £237.8 paid to the operator for the corresponding period of 2019.
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ScotRail is going the extra mile to make sure key and essential workers are able to get home after their shifts finish.
Following customer feedback, the train operator is making changes to the reduced timetable introduced earlier this month to reflect a 90 per cent fall in the number of passengers. The revised timetable, that delivers better value for the taxpayer, is part of ScotRail's strategy to provide critical services during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Permalink) COVID-19 ScotRail Timetabling |
Scotland's Railway is continuing to provide a critical service for key workers with the number of trains running on time across the network at an all-time high for this time of year.
New figures show that 94.2 per cent of trains met the rail industry standard public performance measure (PPM) in period 11 (10 January “ 6 February). (Permalink) PPM ScotRail |
ScotRailhas announced a number of delays amid recent heavy snow and winter conditions.
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