Ludo Thierry
Beeb Scotland is carrying the Scotrail improved timetable story – but – in this reader’s view – NOT offering the story the same sort of prominence that we routinely see with their more frequent ‘Scotrail Are Rubbish’ (and Scotland by extension is also rubbish) pieces.
Anyway – In view of the major improvements Scotrail has announced (including opening the NEW station at Robroyston) it is clear that HUMZA MUST GO!. Link and snippets below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-50652437
ScotRail has vowed that the latest changes to timetables across the country will add 10,000 extra seats for passengers each day.
The improvements, which include a new station at Robroyston in the north of Glasgow, take effect on 15 December.
Among the key differences is a sharp rise in services in the north east and more carriages on busy commuter lines in the central belt and Fife.
ScotRail said the changes, which include 1,500 more seats on the Borders Railway and extra seats between Edinburgh and Glasgow, will have a positive impact.
The operator said a new timetable between Inverurie, Dyce and Aberdeen would provide more than 50% more services.
The route between Edinburgh and Glasgow via Falkirk High will now have eight carriages for every peak service.
ScotRail claims there are more than 2,400 trains running every weekday, an increase of 9% from 10 years ago.
Further timetable improvements will be delivered in May and December 2020.
(NOTE the illuminating wording applied “..Scottrail CLAIMS there are more than 2,400 trains running every weekday…an increase of 9% from 10 yrs ago (ie under SNP Scottish Govt stewardship period) – Either there are the stats to back this up or there aren’t – So why frame it as “..Scotrail CLAIMS..”? – Beeb just can’t help themselves, can they?).
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Same old , same old , they will never change until we have a Union flag waving government then everything will be rosy , they will move on to foreign matters and completely ignore poor governance .
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A month before Abelio took over the Scotrail contract they placed a sizeable order for more trains. Reports at the time said the first tranche would come from Japan and the rest from Hitachi’s new factory in England. As things turned out the train units were all built by Hitachi in England. They were way late in being delivered and had faults that meant they could not be put into service.
It was not only Abelio who had problems with trains from Hitachi. Virgin East Coast when it still held the franchise also had problems. The new trains interfered with the signals. The result, they went into service late and LNER now seems to be trying to take the credit for the new trains. GWR had an order with Hitachi and the trains when they did arrive had faults in the Aircon system causing leaks into the carriages.
Rather than angle every story into an SNP bad refrain it would be better if the journalists actually did some real investigation/research and reported the situation accurately
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