Scotrail Franchise - Abellio

Strathclyder · 31 Mar 2015

laseandre said:
Semi-off topic, but First Glasgow now have buses in a dedicated livery for the 398 Central Station - Queen St - Buchanan St route.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mse062/16359280393/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mse062/16978466971/

Looks like they've been done in 5 minutes, typical First.

They look very smart overall, I think. The 'Saltire' livery seems to work on almost anything it's applied to...

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Gadget88 · 1 Apr 2015

So how do we get the free tickets?

Chrism20 · 1 Apr 2015

Gadget88 said:
So how do we get the free tickets?

Free tickets are available on the website right now, it is on one of the screens that is sliding round.

Managed to get two returns from Edinburgh to Aberdeen for May and June

You can claim two returns for free.

Blindtraveler · 1 Apr 2015

I traveled on the 12:53 Inverness>Edinburgh yesturday on the last day of Fist in charge. 10years ago I did Edinburgh Glasgow return on there 1st day. Lets see how this all goes.

Steve childs · 1 Apr 2015

Well thats that done. I must say I found first to be the best company iv ever worked for. I hope moving forward abellio will be the same. They were keen enough to show up at 4am for an appearance.

Starmill · 1 Apr 2015

You must agree to recieve news and offers both by email and post in order to claim your free travel. Great way to build the mailing list, Abellio!

Booked my free return from Edinburgh to Inverness

jonnysr · 1 Apr 2015

ScotRail Twitter;

Steve Enright ‏@EnrightSteve
Early start but proud to claim to be the first Abellio employee on the first Scotrail service under the new franchise

--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
They weren't slow sticking these up!

Blindtraveler · 1 Apr 2015

What would that have been I wonder?

Starmill · 1 Apr 2015

Is sation CIS announcing / advertising services as 'Abellio ScotRail' or simply 'ScotRail'?

TUC · 1 Apr 2015

What is the new franchise's website address? If you Google 'Scotrail' the top results are for scotrail.co.uk which I presume is First's old website as when you click on the link it says 'website not available. However if you Google 'Abellio Scotrail' (which would not be a natural search route for members of the public anyway) the main links take you to the Scotrail franchise description page within Abellio's corporate website, but no indication of the customer facing website.

PaxVobiscum · 1 Apr 2015

Managed to get 2 off peak returns to Inverness in May on the nth attempt.

Great offer, but the way all the fields (departure station, destination station, number of tickets, month and date) reset after an unsuccessful attempt is a pain.

capital12 · 1 Apr 2015

TUC said:
What is the new franchise's website address? If you Google 'Scotrail' the top results are for scotrail.co.uk which I presume is First's old website as when you click on the link it says 'website not available. However if you Google 'Abellio Scotrail' (which would not be a natural search route for members of the public anyway) the main links take you to the Scotrail franchise description page within Abellio's corporate website, but no indication of the customer facing website.

Exactly the same address! Just typed it in....

cb a1 · 1 Apr 2015

TUC said:
What is the new franchise's website address? If you Google 'Scotrail' the top results are for scotrail.co.uk which I presume is First's old website as when you click on the link it says 'website not available. However if you Google 'Abellio Scotrail' (which would not be a natural search route for members of the public anyway) the main links take you to the Scotrail franchise description page within Abellio's corporate website, but no indication of the customer facing website.

www.scotrail.co.uk

AIUI, the website domain name is 'owned' by the government not the franchise holder.

Typing in the URL, searching for it via Google and clicking on it on my shortcuts all take me to the same place which works for me.

TUC · 1 Apr 2015

I'm getting 'website not available'. Strange ....

jonnysr · 1 Apr 2015

starmill said:
Is sation CIS announcing / advertising services as 'Abellio ScotRail' or simply 'ScotRail'?

"ScotRail" only on announcements, same on the departure board.

jon0844 · 1 Apr 2015

TUC said:
I'm getting 'website not available'. Strange ....

Probably a DNS issue if the address is now going to a new site? Will sort itself out.

Marton · 1 Apr 2015

cb a1 said:
www.scotrail.co.uk

AIUI, the website domain name is 'owned' by the government not the franchise holder.

Typing in the URL, searching for it via Google and clicking on it on my shortcuts all take me to the same place which works for me.

Interesting use of English on the site.

Who IS Abellio... Then what ARE Abellio...

Later on its WE...

Glenmutchkin · 1 Apr 2015

A pretty uninspiring choice of free trips from our local station. Edinburgh, Stirling or Glasgow. That's yer lot.

I see that the new 'Club 50' will require an annual subscription.

Simon11 · 1 Apr 2015

jonnysr said:
ScotRail Twitter;

--- old post above --- --- new post below ---
They weren't slow sticking these up!

Comment on the previous page pictures: Looks like you were beaten to it by the employee behind you

Butts · 1 Apr 2015

Glenmutchkin said:
A pretty uninspiring choice of free trips from our local station. Edinburgh, Stirling or Glasgow. That's yer lot.

I see that the new 'Club 50' will require an annual subscription.

From Falkirk I had the above plus Perth

cf111 · 1 Apr 2015

Got a nice wee toffee biscuit with a flyer about free tickets at Inverness this morning. Not checked the site but from Thurso my freebie will probably get me to Georgemas or Wick :lol:

jopsuk · 1 Apr 2015

just to be clear, people are moaning about the choice of journeys available using completely free tickets?

CC 72100 · 1 Apr 2015

jopsuk said:
just to be clear, people are moaning about the choice of journeys available using completely free tickets?

Yes :roll:

Chris125 · 1 Apr 2015

Interesting Launch Speech from Abellio CEO with news on the planned steam programme:

Thinking back to the event in Waverley on 8th October, my strongest memory was
the enormous interest in our plans for tourism and steam trains.

So in May we will launch ScotRail’s new and significantly enhanced tourist offer,
known as the Great Scenic Railway Journeys of Scotland.
This will promote tourism on Scotland’s five most scenic lines to visitors from
across the world, and we look forward to revealing more soon.

This increased focus on tourism will prepare the way for the launch of the Borders
Railway on 4th September 2015, and the first ScotRail passenger services starting
on 6th September.
We look forward with huge anticipation to welcoming the Borders Railway into the
ScotRail family and will celebrate this with a programme of steam services to
promote tourism on this exciting new railway.

A steam service will operate between Edinburgh and Tweedbank three times a
week on a Wednesday, a Thursday and a Sunday for the first six weeks of
operations. And the magical sight of steam will be seen across the whole of Scotland
with our plans for five other steam trains on scenic routes between June and
September this year.

Tickets for these steam services can be booked now on ScotRail’s new website.

Scotrail84 · 1 Apr 2015

Glenmutchkin said:
A pretty uninspiring choice of free trips from our local station. Edinburgh, Stirling or Glasgow. That's yer lot.

I see that the new 'Club 50' will require an annual subscription.

There was lots of mainline stations on offer this morning. Aberdeen, Inverness and Ayr to name a few.

Agent_c · 1 Apr 2015

Chris125 said:
Interesting Launch Speech from Abellio CEO with news on the planned steam programme:

Its got its own little dedicated section of the website. Prices dont seem cheap, but not bad for day out either.

cf111 · 1 Apr 2015

My first Abellio journey has us sitting at Ardgay for 15 minutes, but I've been delayed in places with worse views before!

I don't know why that's flipped :lol:

thealexweb · 1 Apr 2015

Simon11 said:
Comment on the previous page pictures: Looks like you were beaten to it by the employee behind you

I thought the Abellio brand would be mostly hidden from view and occasionally referred to. No, just as bad as before with the TOC brand everywhere.

Butts · 1 Apr 2015

jopsuk said:
just to be clear, people are moaning about the choice of journeys available using completely free tickets?

Correct, but not just that. The fact they are off-peak is more of an irritation to me personally.

387star · 1 Apr 2015

Appears the fife circle stock has been repainted looks very smart

https://www.flickr.com/photos/37001...UEu-7QwLKp-jp2Qgu-9W4tRx-3mB4Zy-aseEAv-coqLFQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB9I4_Erkwk

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