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ScotRail rolls out £500,000 ticket machines

ScotRail has announced it will roll out 29 touch-screen machines at stations across Scotland in a near-£500,000 project to speed up ticket-buying. The card-only vending machines – being phased in ... Read on

Stunning new postcards celebrate West Highland Lines

ScotRail has unveiled spectacular new postcards that will be offered to customers as free souvenirs of the West Highland Lines. Award-winning photographer Norman McNab has provided four stunning image ... Read on

11,000 extra seats for Scottish Cup Final trains

ScotRail has announced it will provide an extra 11,000 seats on Edinburgh-Glasgow routes for the Scottish Cup Final between Hibs and Hearts on Saturday 19 May.More than 50 trains - on three route ... Read on

Start your summer with Club 55

ScotRail is celebrating the start of summer by bringing back its most popular ticket offer – Club 55. The offer will return from 14 May, with prices held for the third time in a row. Customers aged 55 ... Read on

ScotRail / Network Rail open letter to Ayrshire, Renfrewshire & Inverclyde customers

See below for open letter issued jointly by ScotRail and Network Rail: Dear Customer, We are sorry that performance between Glasgow and Ayrshire, Renfrewshire and Inverclyde over the past 12 months ha ... Read on

ScotRail / Network Rail issue open letter to customers

An unprecedented open letter has been issued by ScotRail and Network Rail in which they apologised for disruption to services between Glasgow and Ayrshire, Renfrewshire and Inverclyde over t ... Read on

Boost for ScotRail’s Highland cycling scheme

ScotRail today announced the expansion of a cut-price bike hire scheme – to save cyclists cash and enable scenic A-to-B journeys across the Highlands. The train operator has an existing discount schem ... Read on

ScotRail beats passenger record

ScotRail has revealed it has beaten passenger records for the eighth year in a row. Latest figures show that it carried 81.1million customers in the year ending March 31, 2012 – up 3.6% on last y ... Read on

ScotRail reintroduces Sunday trips to Oban

ScotRail’s Sunday train services for day trippers to Oban will return this summer following their success over the last two years. And the price of the return trip between Edinburgh and Oban is frozen ... Read on

Playgroup celebrates 10 years by adopting ScotRail station

A Glasgow playgroup has celebrated its 10th anniversary by launching a gardening project at a ScotRail station. The community-run Playbusters group – which provides gardening and volunteering opportun ... Read on
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