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  1. LaidBack
    Member

    The first electric trains between Glasgow Central and East Kilbride will begin operating from Sunday, December 14.

    The launch of the electrified 380 service on the route marks the completion of the £144 million East Kilbride Enhancement Project.

    This was funded by the Scottish Government to modernise the line and deliver a more sustainable transport network.

    Thousands of passengers travelling on this route will now benefit from a cleaner, quieter, more comfortable and reliable railway service.

    There will be new stations at Hairmyres and East Kilbride as well as improved accessibility at Clarkston, Giffnock, and Busby

    https://www.thenational.scot/news/25682445.first-electric-trains-run-glasgow-east-kilbride/

    Posted 1 month ago #

  2. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/08/great-british-railways-logo-branding

    Posted 1 month ago #

  3. LaidBack
    Member

    Repainting trains from leasing company - maybe better spending money on other aspects of transport? Suppose same can be said for ScotGov though they painted many trains with new electric units.
    GB branding will be gradual and we'll only see it twice a day on Highland line locally.

    Posted 1 month ago #

  4. chdot
    Admin

    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-trains-new-timetable-brings-more-rail-services-and-faster-journey-times-5441546

    Posted 1 month ago #

  5. chdot
    Admin

    https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/urgent-alert-after-landslide-detectors-failed-to-avert-glasgow-train-derailment-5449239

    Posted 1 month ago #

  6. chdot
    Admin

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    The Power Shift: Investigating Scotland’s Green Energy Boom

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    https://thescottishbeacon.substack.com/p/the-power-shift-investigating-scotlands

    Posted 1 month ago #

  7. chdot
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    ScotRail costs double under nationalisation as services fall

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    https://archive.ph/2025.12.28-082237/https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25711784.scotrail-costs-double-nationalisation-services-fall/

    Posted 3 weeks ago #

  8. LaidBack
    Member

    The TaxPayers' Alliance pressure group and think thank that pushes for reduced government waste says that the railways should be put into private ownership saying the public have been "sold a giant lie" over nationalisation benefits.

    Somebody better tell Sir Keir to scrap GB Rail then?

    Posted 3 weeks ago #

  9. Morningsider
    Member

    Those figures are nonsense. Total Scottish Government support for the railways in 2022-23 and 2025-26 was (figures from Scottish Budget documents):

    2022-23 £1.4 billion
    2025-26 £1.54 billion

    If you uprate the 2022-23 figures to 2025-26 prices using HM Treasury GDP deflator figures then the 2022-23 support for the railways amounts to £1.57 billion in 2025-26 prices. In effect, total Scottish Government support has reduced rather than increased.

    You always have to look at the railways budget in the round, rather than the split between revenue support for ScotRail/Caledonian Sleeper and funding for Network Rail, as near constant changes in how budgets are allocated and accounted for make year on year comparisons tricky.

    Disappointing to see any journo take what the Taxpayers Alliance say at face value.

    Posted 3 weeks ago #

  10. MediumDave
    Member

    I stopped reading at "Taxpayers Alliance" as my internal Mr T said "shut yo jibber-jabber, fool"

    Laziest possible journalism.

    Posted 3 weeks ago #

  11. chdot
    Admin

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/03/end-of-the-line-for-diesel-fumes-london-st-pancras-new-trains

    Posted 3 weeks ago #

  12. chdot
    Admin

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    Fife Electrification and track re-railing: buses replace trains between Edinburgh Gateway and Inverkeithing from Saturday 17 to Sunday 25 January

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    https://www.scotrail.co.uk/plan-your-journey/service-alterations/fife-electrification-and-track-re-railing-buses-replace

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    The infrastructure that is required to be installed, and that will enable battery-electric trains to operate rail passenger services on the Borders and Fife routes, will be completed in advance of the delivery of the new zero-emission trains. The timescales for delivery will be driven by the outcome of the Suburban Fleet procurement exercise, which has been announced.

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    https://scotlandsrailway.com/projects/fife-electrification

    Posted 3 weeks ago #

  13. chdot
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    One industry source said a car may have been one of the gifts accepted.

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    https://archive.ph/2026.01.08-080935/https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/scotrail-staff-suspended-over-alleged-back-handers-for-contracts-5465984

    Posted 2 weeks ago #

  14. LaidBack
    Member

    Will the new ScotRail trains be leased? Does any UK rail operator own any rolling stock? Nigel Bagshaw (former Green councillor) posted this up.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/3RE7Q-oCAqw?si=rojomKMo9q2nFaOk

    Posted 1 week ago #

  15. chdot
    Admin

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    A cross-Border rail operator which prides itself on running "100 per cent electric trains" will be forced to use diesels for its new Stirling-London services because of a shortage of power on the line, The Scotsman has learned.

    Lumo, which runs Glasgow-Edinburgh-London trains via the east coast main line (ECML), will have to rely on more polluting diesel engines for its new route via the west coast main line (WCML), which starts sometime this spring.

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    https://archive.ph/2026.01.18-074550/https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/power-shortage-forces-100-electric-train-operator-lumo-to-use-diesel-for-new-service-5478444

    Posted 1 week ago #

  16. Arellcat
    Moderator

    [Lumo trains] will be forced to use diesels for its new Stirling-London services because of a shortage of power on the line, The Scotsman has learned.

    Of course, if the journos did their research they would have known two years ago about the likelihood of this. TPE then, Lumo now.

    http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20759&page=15

    Posted 1 week ago #

  17. chdot
    Admin

    Not entirely’news’

    Short-formed sets for EMR as first '222s' head for Lumo

    22nd September 2025

    With three Class 222s being sent off-lease before they move to Lumo and the Class 810s now more than three years late, East Midlands Railway will operate short-form trains while reservations will also be removed from certain services.

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    https://www.modernrailways.com/class-222

    Posted 1 week ago #

  18. LaidBack
    Member

    will be forced to use diesels for its new Stirling-London services because of a shortage of power on the line,

    How can this still be the case? There is so much generation in Scotland surely the amount provided in overhead wires has enough for one or two extra trains?

    Posted 1 week ago #

  19. chdot
    Admin

    Not the ‘power’ that’s the problem

    Rail infrastructure

    Cabling, transformers etc

    Notion is that UKG has not put enough money into NetworkRail

    NetworkRail may not have planned well enough or asked for enough money or both, or neither

    No idea where (if) SG fits into all this (the Lumo diesel issue, according to the article, is “The supply problems are around Crewe, and Acton in London”)

    Electrification of bits of Fife is currently under way

    Well, strictly speaking only Haymarket to Dalmeny

    Dates for the rest unknown

    https://scotlandsrailway.com/projects/fife-electrification

    Trains not yet ordered

    Britain is broken you know

    Posted 1 week ago #

  20. chdot
    Admin

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    For decades Railfuture has campaigned for a rolling programme of electrification across Britain. On 28 July 2020 the Scottish Government announced a large rail electrification programme by 2035 to achieve decarbonisation. This would have seen all seven cities in Scotland (Dunfermline has since become the eighth city) served by electric trains, following electrification in recent years up to Stirling and the remaining routes between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

    The map below shows the routes that were intended to be electrified by 2035. A word of caution, however. In 2008 an electrification map was produced and progress has been slower that it implied. Railfuture will be monitoring progress and challenge future Scottish governments if they rein back on the commitment for decarbonisation.

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    https://www.railfuturescotland.org.uk

    Posted 1 week ago #

  21. Morningsider
    Member

    The 2035 target for rail decarbonisation was binned in late 2024. The target is now 2045.

    Posted 6 days ago #

  22. chdot
    Admin

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    He said: “Network Rail's upcoming work is a vital stage in the Fife electrification project, paving the way for long-term improvements that will benefit customers for years to come.

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    https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25775483.buses-replace-trains-edinburgh-fife-25-january/

    Posted 6 days ago #

  23. chdot
    Admin

    https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/waverley-set-to-overtake-glasgow-central-for-first-time-in-150-years-5488118

    Posted 6 hours ago #

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