Scottish Rail Holdings chief executive said trial could cost £60m a year.
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The Minister for Transport has announced the appointment two Non-Executive Directors to the Board of Scottish Rail Holdings.
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Newly appointed Transport Minister Kevin Stewart has welcomed the opportunity to mark ScotRails first year under public ownership.

Since the Scottish Government brought ScotRail into public ownership on 1 April last year, Ministers have continued to ensure the focus of delivery is on passenger needs.

Ahead of this weekends anniversary, Transport Minister Kevin Stewart has reflected on the achievements of the last 12 months and set out his priorities for ScotRail going forward.
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Opposition parties have called for concrete plans and a better vision for Scotlands rail services, on the first anniversary of Scotrail being brought back into public hands.

From April 1 last year, in what former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called a historic moment, the Scottish Government took back the franchise from Dutch State company Abellio after it was much criticised for poor performance. A government owned company, Scotrail Trains Limited, now operates the services, overseen by a new public body, Scottish Rail Holdings Ltd.
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Caledonian Sleeper will remain a separate operation to ScotRail under public ownership plans announced by the Scottish Government.
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Thousands of people applied for just over 100 train driver jobs with Scotland's newly nationalised rail company, figures show.
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Scottish Rail Holdings was established as ScotRail was brought into public ownership.
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A series of strikes at ScotRail have been suspended after unions received an improved pay offer. The RMT union is to ballot its members on a 5% pay rise plus an extra £750.
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An improved ScotRail pay offer is to be put to Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union chiefs, suggesting the long-running dispute could be nearing resolution, The Scotsman has learned.
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Public control of railways brings high expectations, but limited prospects of them being met
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RMT members will walk out on Monday as part of an ongoing dispute with ScotRail over pay.
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ScotRail has confirmed its services will face widespread disruption when the train operators members of the RMT take part in strike action today, Monday, 10 October. Last Thursday, the RMT rejected ScotRail's latest improved pay offer which the train operator had tabled in a bid to resolve the dispute and avert strike action.
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The head of a major rail industry body has accused the Scottish Government of nationalising ScotRail for political rather than economic reasons which he warned could be a disaster for future investment because of politicians short-term outlook.
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The operator, which was nationalised in April, is required to disclose how much its top staff earn.
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ScotRail and Scots ministers have been accused of hiding how much taxpayers' money is being spent in keeping Scotland's trains running after nationalisation.
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The details were revealed in a Sunday Mail investigation into ScotRail, which is already in meltdown weeks after being taken into public ownership.
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Will the rewards of running Scotland's train services outweigh the risks for the government?
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Union leaders have warned of the 'worst cuts to rail services since the dark days of Beeching' by newly-nationalised ScotRail amidst an ongoing pay dispute which has led to hundreds of service cancellations due to driver shortages.
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Hundreds of trains services have been cancelled or curtailed this week due to driver shortages linked to a bitter pay dispute ahead of a possible summer of discontent on the newly-nationalised Scots rail network.
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The Scottish Government is being urged to do more to cut train fares as train tickets from England to Scotland are set to be slashed by as much as half by the UK Government.
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The Sunday Mail asked the operator to state the pay of three new officials - chief operating officer Joanne Maguire and new body Scottish Rail Holdings chief exec officer Chris Gibb and finance boss David Lowrie.
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Newly-nationalised ScotRail is failing to show passengers the cheapest fares for some journeys on its website, Scotland on Sunday can reveal.
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SNP ministers have been urged to lower fares and increase services now that ScotRail has been nationalised.
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The transfer of the ScotRail franchise into the public sector takes place on Friday 1 April 2022.

All customers should be assured that train services will continue to run, tickets and season tickets remain valid, and all purchases can be made in the usual way.

Timetables, including any scheduled amendments, will remain the same as planned.
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ScotRail officially coming under public control and ownership heralds a new beginning that truly puts passengers and staff at the heart of rail services, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.

Speaking at Glasgow Queen Street Station today, the First Minister marked the transition date that means ScotRail services will be delivered by a Scottish Government owned operator.
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Abellio has been running services in Scotland since 2015, however its contract has been axed early due to criticisms over delays and performance levels.
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As ScotRail is renationalised, RMT calls for the Scottish Government to bring the Caledonian Sleeper into public ownership as internal Scottish Government documents show this could be done in just twelve weeks.
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An arms-length Scottish government company will take over running the rail franchise from Abellio.
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ScotRail has been nationalised by the Scottish Government.
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TRADE union RMT will be holding a rally outside Glasgows Queen Street railway station today as ScotRail return to public ownership.
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Transport minister Jenny Gilruth told the Record that government faced a 'challenge' in convincing more Scots to leave their cars at home.
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Commenting on the new start for ScotRail under Scottish Government ownership, Transforms rail spokesperson Paul Tetlaw said: We welcome the new start for ScotRail from 1 April with a much closer working relationship between the different parts of the railway and with the Scottish Government. This should allow better and more focused long term planning.
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ScotRails takeover by the Scottish Government on Friday could turn it into CalMac on wheels, Scottish Conservatives transport spokesperson Graham Simspon has told MSPs.
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The proportion of train journeys in Britain on services run by the public sector will hit 25% on Friday.

Analysis by the PA news agency found the milestone will be reached once the Scottish Government takes over ScotRail.

That is the highest percentage since Britains railways were privatised in the mid-1990s.
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The trains need to go where people want, when people want and at a reasonable price. This in essence is our approach to rail travel and should surely be the mission statement of those in charge.
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Your questions answered as a new public body prepares to take over Scotland's train services.
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As ScotRail enters public ownership on 1st April 2022, RMT holds day of action to call on the Scottish Government to ensure that the new operator delivers for Scotlands rail passengers, communities, and workers.
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John Lauder, deputy CEO of Sustrans, will join Scotlands Railway in April on an 18-month secondment to lead a special strategic project to reduce car journeys to the nations train stations.
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Holyrood ministers were blasted last night for not including ScotRail's new public-owned parent firm in a list of bodies set to be covered by an anti-rip-off law.
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At least the train was on time. After a fraught few days when ministers were, again, forced to defend the Scottish Government's role in a flagship transport fiasco, the 12.15 from Glasgow's refurbished Queen Street left Platform 7 for Edinburgh Waverley bang on schedule.
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Next Friday (April 1), the operation of the ScotRail franchise will transfer from Abellio ScotRail to ScotRail Trains, a publicly owned company.
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There is little disagreement over the large scale of the challenge facing railway bosses when the ScotRail franchise passes into Scottish Government hands on April 1.
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The new system will come into force next month after years of controversy about the service provided by Abellio ScotRail.
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Scotland's transport minister Jenny Gilruth recently announced the next steps for ScotRails move into public ownership, due to take place in April this year.
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It's vital the government understand the importance of improving our railways. In just a few weeks time, Scotlands transport system will see its biggest shake-up in decades, when the Scottish Government nationalises the countrys train services.
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Minister say there will be talks on future services, but opponents say they are ill-prepared.
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There should be no compulsory redundancies at Scotland's new publicly owned rail provider, Scottish Labour has said ahead of a Holyrood vote.
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A major bust up emerged today between ScotRail's unions and the Scottish Government-appointed body which will oversee the train operator when it is returned to public hands in April.
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This is a tale about transparency of the often fearsomely complicated workings of Scotlands rail network.
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Former Virgin Trains executive Chris Gibb is facing questions over a potential conflict of interest after our investigation uncovered details of the directorship.
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State buyouts of Prestwick airport, a shipbuilder and a company supplying offshore wind turbines which have cost the public purse tens of millions of pounds are 'unlikely to achieve value for money', the spending watchdog has said.
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Scottish ministers have come under fire after appointing a new chief operating officer for the new state-controlled ScotRail with no experience in railways.

Joanne Maguire, currently resources vice principal at the University of the West of Scotland, will take up the role on day one of the new state-owned train operator on April 1, 2022.
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ScotRail has announced the appointment of its new Chief Operating Officer from 1 April 2022, when the train operator becomes a public body.
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