Glasgow Central disruption set to continue into next week
Train services at Glasgow Central High Level are set to be disrupted into next week, National Rail has warned, after the Union Street fire on 8 March which closed the station. Platforms 7 to 15 were able to reopen on Wednesday, allowing a number of ScotRail routes to be restored. Avanti West Coast is running one train an hour, and Caledonian Sleeper has also returned, but passengers are being warned that parts of the High Level station remain closed, very few facilities are available and several entrances remain out of use.
From Derby to Dundee: ScotRail to replace HSTs with 222sA fleet of diesel trains built for the Midland Main Line in England more than 20 years ago is going to Scotland, where it will replace ScotRail’s High Speed Trains. The HSTs, introduced during the 1970s by British Rail, are the last of their type in regular service in Britain, after GWR retired its four-car ‘Castle’ sets last year.
RMT suspends strikes over four day week disputeThe RMT has called off strikes it was to stage from next week in its dispute with Transport for London over proposals for a four-day week on London Underground. The union says the plan would involve four longer shifts each week, and that it was concerned about fatigue, but that there has now been progress in talks with TfL.
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