Caledonian Sleeper expected to be nationalised [Scotsman]





Date: 25/02/2023

A statement by transport minister Jenny Gilruth to MSPs planned for Thursday is anticipated to confirm the overnight train service will switch to public hands, like ScotRail last year.


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Caledonian Sleeper waiting to depart Aberdeen behind 73967 on 24th August 2021.
Location: Aberdeen
Company: Aberdeen Joint (Caledonian Railway)
24/08/2021 Duncan Ross
For only the second time, two Class 73's have hauled the Caledonian Sleeper to Inverness. 73966 and 73967 are pictured leaving Culloden Viaduct on the return working to Edinburgh on 21 May 2016. There the sleeper coaches will those from Fort William and Aberdeen before going on to London Euston.
Location: Culloden Viaduct
Company: Inverness and Aviemore Direct Railway (Highland Railway)
21/05/2016 John Gray
Face to face with a class 73 Serco sleeper locomotive, stabled in the short bays at the east end of Waverley on an unusually bright and sunny afternoon in July 2016.
Location: Edinburgh Waverley
Company: North British Railway
19/07/2016 John Furnevel


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