Date: 30/03/2018

ScotRail is in a race against time to find more stand-in trains to avert further overcrowding because of delays to a brand new fleet. Hitachi electric trains which should have started running on the Edinburgh-Glasgow main line last September are not now expected in service for several more months. However, four of ScotRails older trains have already left Scotland because their leases have expired. Three more are due to go in July or August, followed by others at the end of the year.

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ScotRail train shortage prompts UK-wide search for stand-ins

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ScotRail is in a race against time to find more stand-in trains to avert further overcrowding because of delays to a brand new fleet.

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One of the new ScotRail Class 385 electric multiple units, which can be regularly seen at Gourock where they are currently being tested overnight. Photograph taken on 9 January 2017. (Pictures are also available in Inverclydenow.com)
Location: Gourock
Company: Gourock Extension Railway (Caledonian Railway)
09/01/2017 Brian Thompson