ScotRail

  • Caledonian Sleeper’s Mk5 stock: an overnight sensation?

    Caledonian Sleeper’s Mk5 stock: an overnight sensation?

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    Caledonian Sleeper’s new Mk5 stock has rarely been out of the headlines since it was introduced. Ben Jones takes a ride on this new generation of Spanish-built overnight stock to see if it delivers on its promises of a quality hotel experience. Having been in decline for decades, killed off by indifference, variable quality, high…

  • Practice & Performance: ScotRail progress

    Practice & Performance: ScotRail progress

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    Scotland’s railways are undergoing a transformation. John Heaton FCILT assesses the performance of ScotRail’s new traction.

  • Wrong IET set at Castle Cary for Glastonbury event founder naming

    Wrong IET set at Castle Cary for Glastonbury event founder naming

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    Words: Peter Nicholson Castle Cary station, Somerset, on the GWR’s West of England Main Line, has new station signs reading ‘Castle Cary Station of the Glastonbury Festival‘.  The signs were officially dedicated on the morning of April 9 by 83-year old Michael Eavis, the festival’s founder, who was included in a list of 100 Great…

  • End of the line as another Class 314 heads for Newport

    End of the line as another Class 314 heads for Newport

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    Another ScotRail Class 314 was sent for scrap on March 14, when No. 314206 was dispatched overnight.


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