Railway infrastructure manager Network Rail is planning to invest £4bn in Scotland railways between 2019 and 2024 in a bid to maintain and enhance the rail network in the area. The move is set to ...

Scotland’s transport minister Derek Mackay has launched the government’s new rail freight strategy called Delivering the Goods. The strategy includes a vision to make the country’s rail freight sector ...

The Initial Industry Plan (IIP) sets out how the industry could build on recent improvements in cost efficiency and cut the cost of running the Scottish railway by £72m per annum by 2019. These ...

Passengers are facing severe disruption across Scotland’s railways due to fresh strikes by thousands of workers in the bitter row over jobs, pay and conditions. Industrial action by members of the ...

Network Rail has today published its Scotland Route Utilisation Strategy Generation Two (RUS), which sets out how Scotland’s railway will need to grow over the next two decades to keep pace with ...

The Scottish heritage railways rekindle the golden age of steam travel. 200,000 visitors a year ride on restored steam locomotives and preservation railways on Scottish heritage railways to rekindle ...

The Transport Secretary yesterday admitted that rail nationalisation in Scotland has been a 'fiasco' - but vowed to press ahead with ending privatisation in England. Heidi Alexander insisted that ...

Significant disruption across Scotland’s rail network has begun as workers at Network Rail take strike action this week. Workers responsible for train lines and infrastructure across the UK walked out ...