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There is speculation that the Scottish Greens won’t support the Scottish Budget this year because of the A9 and A96 dualling: https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/politics/scottish-politics/2005639/scottish-budget-greens-demand-to-cancel-a9-and-a96-dualling-work-could-derail-snp-plans/ So...

I see that there is a shiny new website launched by Scotland's Railway - Network Rail Scotland, Scotrail and other partners. https://scotlandsrailway.com/ Amongst other things on the new website there is a list of 24 potential enhancements as part of the "Potential Investment Programme"...

My son and I have advance purchase single tickets Glasgow - Slough with Family Railcard. My wife has an undiscounted advance purchase single Glasgow - London (paid for by someone else) on the same train as us. Is my wife entitled to Family Railcard discount on an Anytime Single from...

It should help improve the business case for extending Glasgow Central over the Clyde and providing a new Tradeston entrance Blackfriars style.

Is this possible? A first class advance single ticket London - Glasgow for later today is held with a value of more than the £141.50 Off Peak Single. Can a zero excess be done?

At a Transport Summit in Dumfries and Galloway the Deputy First Minister John Swinney and Transport Minister Humza Yousaf have announced a review of the National Transport Strategy (NTS) which will set out transport policy across Scotland for the next 20 years. The review of the NTS will...

Big news for additional Scotrail services: Headline new services: Hourly service Inverness - Perth (2 hourly alternates to Glasgow / Edinburgh) Inverness - Elgin hourly local service "Aberdeen Crossrail" hourly Montrose - Inverurie service Many Inverness - Glasgow/Edinburgh via Aberdeen...

There were several different threads I could have posted this on but as it covered multiple different stock types it seemed best to create a new thread. Here is the news story from TRansport Scotland...

Previous thread locked so starting a new one. http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=98519 Contractor appointed to carry out phase 1 works which are listed below. http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/news/bam-deliver-%C2%A3170m-aberdeen-inverness-rail-upgrade Also worth following the...

Scottish Government to receive final High Speed Rail report by the end of 2015 with an announcement in February 2016. http://www.transportscotland.gov.uk/news/cabinet-secretary-keith-brown-announces-step-forward-high-speed-rail-scotland#sthash.7lD6uD9M.dpuf Been a fair bit of discussion in...

158 refurbishment programme announced. First train is launched today at Springburn and is to be used on Borders Rail from next week. As it says this is the first of 40 trains it looks like both the ex Haymarket and ex Inverness units will be done to the same standard, although presumably the...

Couple of questions for anyone who's dealt with Britrail passes, either as a ticket clerk or a customer. I'm looking at buying 3 children's Britrail passes for my nieces/nephew who are British citizens but live in New Zealand and will be visiting the UK without their parents. 1 Verifying...

Transport Scotland have established a £30m fund for CP5 to help with both station reopenings and upgrades to existing stations. More details here. There was previous discussion on these threads: http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=95229&...

Now I think this is a list of stations served by Scotrail that are currently (at least partially) barriered: Glasgow Central Edinburgh Waverley Glasgow Queen Street Aberdeen Stirling Haymarket Charing Cross Dundee Ayr Argyle Street Motherwell Inverness Perth Anderston Edinburgh...

This question arose on the Borders Rail thread and I did a bit of research with the ORR station statistics but it was off topic there so thought I'd create a new thread for it: There are 9 top level local authorities in the UK with no National Rail Station at present. 2 will be served by the...

Visited Falls of Cruachan station at the weekend and was impressed to find since my last visit (2000 to climb Ben Cruachan) a modern waiting shelter has been installed. This page indicates it is part of the current franchise's station improvement works without giving a precise date of...

There have been a few threads recently which have mentioned various different lines and dates for electrification in Scotland. I thought I’d try and bring together all the different sources for electrification and do a timeline of what has happened, is happening and is likely to happen in...

Lots of threads about pacer replacement and potential diesel multiple unit rolling stock orders have mentioned the issues around the uncertainty for ROSCOs in financing new DMU rolling stock orders given the likely continued expansion of electrification in Control Period 6 and beyond. This is...

So I had a bit of an RJ like experience this week where the Guard told me my ticket wasn't valid as it "Cost less than everyone else paid for their ones". I explained that it was valid on this particular journey due to the routing guide but had particular restrictions that made it less flexible...