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Thanks D6130. I hadn’t realised how much work and money would be involved. I live in Glasgow and love visiting Strathaven. Lovely place. I keeps thinking about moving out there but the public transports not great. The community now has an hourly bus service to Glasgow but a train station would...

Strathaven would fit. Previously had a station and with larkhall close by could reopen

You’re buying a flexipaas from Station A to Station B and according to this webpage - https://www.scotrail.co.uk/tickets/flexipass you are meant to tap in and out. I suppose people could over ride to a station further up the line. However, I would have thought this would be unlikely as their...

I’m a scotrail commuter and the thing I always wonder about is how few people tap out at the end of the journey - at a stations without gates. I do wonder if this is going to cause problems

Wemyss Bay and Glasgow Central.

That you yorkie. muck appreciated

There was issues on the Neilston line this morning and my train was cancelled. I have a weekly session ticket and in end I decided to drive into Glasgow. I would usually use the trains both ways. The trains were back on by the afternoon. i take it I can only claim delay repay for the...

I’ve never worked in an industry with a union presence. For those members that decide that they are losing too much money and can no longer afford to strike, what kind of consequences are they likely to face from the union and their colleagues. Are colleagues likely to understand given the cost...

Twitter team suggesting that tomorrow might be difficult but normal service on Monday https://twitter.com/ScotRail/status/1604129791866679303

Hi Falcon1200 Covid has certainly reduced the need for this. pre covid there has been regular discussions here about central nearing capacity. so depending on how quickly these services come back would obviously affect when this is needed. Some suggestions have included converting the Cathcart...

Thanks. I live in Glasgow so regularly see central, Queen street and even Wemyss Bay, so seeing something modern is quite an experience! But you’re right Ostbahnhof and zoo are quite impressive as well!

When I read the title to this thread the first station that came to mind was Berlin‘s Hauptbahnhof. I realise it’s not in the uk but it’s an engineering masterpiece and in my mind a flagship station. does the uk have any modern stations that could compete with something like Hauptbahnhof?

Glasgow Central could do we a few more platforms to deal with additional services

Sorry I don’t know. A lot of the ones I travel on have the new priority seating covers that were first introduced on the 385. The issues they I’ve seen recently are Next stop signs not working PA system getting the wrong station names on routes. Connecting carriage doors not working...

I was actually wondering if ScotRail budget for customer side maintenance had been reduced. I’ve been on quite a few 380 recently and a lot of them had issues. I thought Pre-Covid they were in excellent condition.