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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 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.
The nature of ScotRail was a matter of some political controversy throughout its operation; in February 2003, the Scottish National Party publicly promised to undertake various measures towards the renationalisation of Scotland's rail services, specifically mentioning the ending of the ScotRail franchise in favour of state control.
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]
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, ...
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.
Station totem design prior to 1965. World War II had seriously disrupted Scotland's railways due to the LMS and LNER rolling stock in Scotland being transferred to the major cities in Northern England in order to replace what had been destroyed by German air-raids.
On 30 October 2023 Ian Appleby, the owner of a neighbouring property. was arrested for behaving in a threatening or abusive manner as part of a dispute with Scotrail and Network Rail over access to the station. From Sunday 12 November 2023, ScotRail trains were temporarily not calling at Altnabreac due to it. [6]