News and Statistics Review

The news changes day by day and then disappears. This section records some of the issues that have been reported in the news and has been prepared by transport Historian Tom Hart (Glasgow University), who has been summarising the news about Scottish transport for over 20 years. News Reviews from before 2013 were contained within Scottish Transport Reviews.

2025 Rail News

John Yellowlees summarises the latest rail news January 2025 (download the newsletter) February 2025 (download the newsletter)

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Posted by administrator on 11th February 2025
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Investing in People and Places

National Planning Framework 4 makes fundamental changes in the focus of transport investment towards people and places. However these have not yet been matched by changes in national funding for […]

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Posted by administrator on 13th December 2023
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2023 STSG Chair’s Annual Report

John Yellowlees, STSG Chair In 2023 Scotland has had three transport ministers, but the issues remained much the same. Indeed the ministerial churn was cited by Holyrood’s net zero committee […]

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Posted by administrator on 25th September 2023
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2021 Rail News

John Yellowlees diary notes of significant events in Scotland’s rail history. Italics show items perceived as bad news January 2021 : parapet collapse at Carron Water Viaduct, Carmont, Stranraer reduction […]

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Posted by administrator on 8th April 2021
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Old and New at Kintore

The £15M new station at Kintore in Aberdeenshire where trains commenced calling on 15 October 2020 combines the modern functionalities of a state-of-the-art unstaffed stopping place with two pairs of […]

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Posted by administrator on 19th October 2020
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New information screens boost transport integration

Oban is a hub for rail, taxi, ferry, air and other connections so good information is essential. A partnership approach has been taken to improving this information.

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Posted by administrator on 19th September 2019
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Transport Forecasts and Self Fulfilling Prophesies

In November 2018 Transport Scotland published their first transport demand forecasts. In the past reliance was made on the forecasts published by the Department for Transport in London. Transport Scotland […]