ScotRail adds more services

AS PART of the recovery of the railway from the Covid-19 pandemic, ScotRail says following a public consultation, its new May timetable will operate 2150 daily services, an increase of 150 compared to when the consultation began last year. The additional 150 services added in May being based on the December 2021 timetable. Changes from May include an all-day direct service between Perth and Kirkcaldy rather than via Dunfermline; an additional early morning service from New Cumnock to Glasgow and evening peak and late evening services from Glasgow to Dumfries; changes to the intervals at the stations between Perth and Inverness for better spacing and more station calls; and a trial halfhourly service on the Borders Railway to test how quickly off-peak demand recovers and grows beyond pre-pandemic levels. There will also be more services on the Edinburgh Waverley-Glasgow Central via Carstairs and via Shotts routes from December 2022 and again in May 2023, where the pandemic had caused delays in driver route training.