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ScotRail Trains Limited, trading as ScotRail (Scottish Gaelic: Rèile na h-Alba), is a Scottish train operating company that is publicly owned by Scottish Rail Holdings on behalf of the Scottish Government. [1] It has been operating the ScotRail franchise as an operator of last resort since 1 April 2022.
Scottish Rail Holdings is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government [2] which operates the ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper rail services.. On 1 April 2022 ScotRail, the company which operates the majority of rail services in Scotland, was brought under the public ownership of Scottish Rail Holdings beginning at the conclusion of the Abellio ScotRail franchise. [3]
The ScotRail brand was created by British Railways Scottish Region manager Chris Green in the mid-1980s [3] to provide a distinctive brand for the rail network in Scotland. . The brand has developed and is still in use to
ScotRail was the trading name providing a distinctive brand for the British Rail network in Scotland, [1] [page needed] first adopted on 22 September 1983, under manager Chris Green, British Railways Scottish Region.
During the 1970s and 1980s, it was common for charter trains to come up from the West Midlands or North West (many organised by the Locomotive Club of Great Britain) for enthusiast tours lasting for a full weekend, with passengers sleeping on the trains during overnight segments, and with the locomotive(s) being changed very frequently to give ...
Abellio ScotRail, [2] operating services under the name ScotRail, was the national train operating company of Scotland. A subsidiary of the Netherlands-based transport conglomerate Abellio , it operated the ScotRail franchise between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2022.
Another defunct society was the Railway Enthusiasts Society Limited -RESL. [11] This was also founded by Dale W. Fickes. This organisation mainly ran railtours. [12] Buckley Wells Railway Enthusiasts went out of existence in 1969 following an over ambitious southern trip. [13] Many of the members then helped form NCTS -Northern Counties ...
In September 2010, commissioning of the fleet was suspended by ScotRail due to technical issues with the trains. [9] The reliability issues and extended commissioning period resulted in an initially reduced service on parts of the ScotRail network, including the newly re-opened Airdrie-Bathgate line. [10] The fleet is based at Glasgow Shields ...