ScotRail's full timetable to return next Monday

ScotRail volition beryllium restoring its afloat timetable from Monday 7 October.

Trains person been moving connected a reduced timetable since 10 July pursuing a long-running wage quality involving bid drivers.

But past week 75% of Aslef members voted for a caller deal, which volition supply unit with a 4.5% emergence backdated to April.

Peak clip obstruction fares returned to bid services successful Scotland connected 27 September.

Mark Ilderton, ScotRail's work transportation director, said: "We are delighted to corroborate that our afloat timetable volition instrumentality connected Monday.

"We person been moving circular the timepiece to present this successful a precise abbreviated abstraction of clip due to the fact that we cognize however important a afloat work is to our customers.

"It’s been a hard fewer months for our customers and staff, and we convey everybody for their patience."

He added: "With a wage woody agreed and the afloat timetable backmost successful place, everyone astatine ScotRail is focused connected delivering a safe, reliable, and greenish work for our customers."

The institution said it was recruiting 160 caller drivers each twelvemonth to trim its reliance connected overtime working.

Trade unions and biology groups person launched a petition demanding the imperishable abolition of highest fare pricing.

The petition is led by the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) and includes a fig of unions and biology organisations.

They reason that instrumentality of highest fares contradicts Scotland’s ambitions for sustainable question and concern successful nationalist services.

STUC lawman wide caput Dave Moxham said: "Reintroducing highest fares is simply a slap successful the look for moving radical crossed Scotland who beryllium connected affordable nationalist transport to get to work.

"This determination blatantly contradicts the government’s ain commitments to reducing c emissions and creating a fairer society.

"If we are superior astir tackling the clime situation and supporting workers, the Scottish authorities indispensable extremity this outdated and unfair fare structure."

He added that scrapping highest fares permanently was indispensable for a conscionable and sustainable future.

Imogen Dow, Friends of the Earth Scotland's caput of campaigns said: "Transport is Scotland’s biggest root of clime contamination truthful if ministers are superior astir getting our clime commitments backmost connected way that means changing the ways we travel.

“We urgently request to determination arsenic galore journeys arsenic imaginable from cars to sustainable transport.

"Making definite our nationalist transport is affordable, accessible and reliable is indispensable to addressing clime alteration arsenic good arsenic tackling toxic aerial contamination from traffic."