Cole-Hamilton off the rails
From https://x.com/Caymanguy1234:
Network Rail pays ScotRail if they are at fault. I wonder how much ScotRail received, compared to the payout to passengers?
I haven’t been able to do that precisely but this is helpful.
From Train Operating Company key statistics April 2022 to March 2023, Office of Rail and Road in August 2023:
Network Rail was responsible for 410 942 minutes of delays due to infrastructure faults while ScotRail was only responsible for 241 688, in 2021-2022.
In 2022-2023, it was 483 533 and 275 963.
https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/media/2244/scotrail-key-statistics-2022-23.pdf
Network Rail was thus responsible for 63% of time delays in 2021-20222 and for 64% in 2022-2023.
Assuming some correlation between the length of delays and the payments made, it now looks like Scotrail spent only £0.7 million from its own funds, over two and a half years, and made an average payment per journey of a tiny 0.7p.
For the preceding discussion, see: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2024/12/23/little-shock-as-alex-cole-hamilton-exposes-2p-average-rail-delay-payment-and-0-06p-average-accommodation-cost-per-journey/
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
These figures are maybe to hard for ACH to understand as it shows a light its not SR who are wrong.
Have you seen this one Robert Lowe Reform MP
The Scottish Government is basically running a fraud funded by the British taxpayer through the Barnett formula
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Wow that’s a new one…it would be funny if they weren’t so er popular and had so much dosh being chucked at them..yikes.
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Recent headline on BBC Scotland website for Scotland’s Papers ‘800 trains cancelled’, which was no doubt intended to suggest a catastrophic situation in Scotland.
It turns out that on reading the first paper shown, the I, (though not easy to read on the website as very small) that the number was across the UK and the i stated that Scotland fared better but did not give a figure!
Typical misleading and talking down BBC Scotland tactics?
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Whilst agreeing that BBC Scotland could have equally analysed the data presented here to put ACH-him’s confected nonsense into context, I doubt there are many left in Scotland after the last decade of propaganda giving credence to either.
Yet as reflected on earlier over Macmillan, UK politics has long abused the public’s perceptions of ‘efficiency’ and ‘cost’ to diminish quality of life in the public realm, public transport a particular favourite…. Neither Network Rail nor rail franchises were around in Macmillan’s day, it as was all under the one roof of BR – But ‘efficiency’ and the ‘can’t afford it fairy’ still put paid to the Paddy Line et al, yet to what lasting benefit of society ?
I tried and failed to identify a single initiative by HMG over my lifetime which has improved ‘well-being’ of the populace, UK politics knows only how to destroy – It’s El Cookie and Coal-Scuttle’s job to ensure none get the idea that can be changed by dumping UK politics, and them with it.
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