Your chance to grill rail bosses

ScotRail chiefs are in for a further grilling next week as commuter complaints about services on the Fife Circle continue.

Managing director Alex Hynes met transport minister Humza Yousaf earlier this week and insisted Fife was “central” to building the best rail network Scotland has ever had.

However, Mid Scotland and Fife MSP Claire Baker has organised a Facebook Live event for next Friday which will see her quiz ScotRail chief operating officer Angus Thom and head of integrated control Mark Ilderton.

Stop-skipping, late trains, cancellations and the short forming of services will all be on the agenda.

Any questions for the Facebook event should be emailed to Claire.Baker.MSP@Parliament.Scot with ScotRail as the subject.

“I appreciate the opportunity to highlight the many concerns that have been raised with me regarding ScotRail’s service in Fife,” she said. “As someone who regularly uses the service to get from Fife to Parliament, I know first-hand the disruptions commuters are facing.

“We are talking about being late for work, missing meetings, failing to get back in time for childcare and having to stand in overcrowded, potentially unsafe, trains.

“We need to ensure commuters in Fife are not being short-changed and many feel they are receiving a secondclass service.”