Railing angrily

Improvements to train services in Scotland were delayed by issues including problems with windscreens, brakes and “the wrong type of thread” in new carpets.

There are no good rail companies nowadays, I am currently travelling to London on LNER and am being asked to pay for their wi-fi despite having paid a fortune for tickets! LNER is the Ryan Air railroad, next I’ll have to put coins in the slot to use the bathroom!

American Bob

The new electric Edinburghglasgow service via Cumbernauld is to be welcomed – but the halfhourly through trains cease after approx 19.30 and thereafter a change is required at Falkirk Grahamston – with an ensuing 22-minute wait for a “connecting” Falkirk G’stoncumbernauld-glasgow bound service negating the benefits of a quick journey back after a day or night out in Edinburgh!

Andrew Stephen

Our Georgemas junction to Wick service now goes a 15-minute detour up to Thurso, then back down to Georgemas junction and onto the county capital, any sane rail operator would have a little unit waiting at Georgemass junction so passengers could change and not have a 40 minute detour. The service was better 100 years ago, when there was a little train linking Wick and Thurso every half hour, no need for buses and charabangs and expensive taxi’s back then,eh ?

Colin Macdougall

It is all down to Project Management. Things don’t happen just because we say they will. Another thing may be that whoever was the so called project manager may not have been able to review the original plans for basic feasibility. Sounds to me like some operations managers need replacing.

Corriegenda

Question I’ve got is when is the high-speed bullet train between Edinburgh and Glasgow [Nicola Sturgeon] promised us in 2012, when she was infrastructure minister, without waiting for the English, going to start running?

Paul Holyrood