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It’s okay, the relevant teams responsible can always just blame the control for not putting things back together.

I don’t think they are. There was maybe an attempt to introduce them but the political fall out risked being too great.

This will probably go down like a lead balloon, but I don’t think there is anywhere in Scotland where a completely new route (or reopening of a former route) would be in any way viable. And that’s not even expecting the railway itself to break even, but through overall contribution to the local...

They are aware of the consequences of such diagrams, however they are more interested in the 90% of the time where they work because everything is on time, than the 10% where it doesn’t because of disruption. Essentially resilience under these circumstances is abandoned in favour of overall cost...

ScotRail are under pressure to get rid of HSTs before 2030.

That’s Shettleston loop, used for turning trains or looping slower trains where required. Not signalled the required standard needed for passenger services. There’s no requirement for faster end to end services on this route as that’s not what it is intended for. It is intended to connect...

Staff are currently beginning 6 weeks of strike action here due to a long standing pay dispute.

Who copied who? Glasgow or Sydney?

Many TOCS internal attitude to those who complain about the train service is one of mockery. It’s better now than it used to be, but certainly from my experience (within a TOC) many complaints are not taken seriously at all.

Yes, but this is where the RMT will decide to put a spanner in the works as it will be an opportunity to squeeze more out of management when other grades pay talks begin.

If we were to have any feasibility studies, I’d suggest they were put into the likely impact of improved rail services around Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness, with infrastructure improvements explored to ensure there were robust local services in place rather than the unreliable schedules that...

Absolutely no chance is any of this reopening (or opening anew in certain cases). Could just about see a case for Dyce to Fraserburgh in a similar vein to the Borders reopening, but that’s it. I saw someone mention realignment of the West Highland line to improve links to the Inner Hebrides...

No, they would not get access.

Freight schedules tend to be a lot more flexible as they don’t necessarily always require to run.

Im Surprised they go down this route. Easier way to do it is to no longer stop at certain stations, run express to Carlisle or something, that way the numbers are forced to go down. Then seek ticket acceptance with other operators (if available or feasible) if their train comes first.

It’s a legal requirement in Scotland whenever someone has died during the course of their employment. It doesn’t matter what other enquiry might happen before, or after, as that other enquiry wasn’t a fatal accident enquiry. Someone died at their workplace, therefore a Fatal Accident enquiry is...

This has to be a wind up.

There were plenty of objections to HSTs at the time, particularly from railway staff who didn’t understand the need to introduce a fleet twice the age of the one it was replacing. It was the first thing that was noted about the plan in fact. First Group proposed running 6 car class 170s using...

There won’t be any surplus 170s.

As mentioned by others above, it’s simply not worth the time and hassle to pursue a court case against someone for non payment of a rail fare in Scotland. Increased revenue staff is their only option, a far more positive way to proceed than taking people to court.