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Transport Correspondent & columnist, The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday. adalton @scotsman .com

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Alastair Dalton
6 years
For those who haven't seen it, an extraordinary drone image of the A82 traffic queue near the Glencoe Mountain Resort on Sunday Pic: Alasdair Burgess in The Herald
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EXCLUSIVE: First new Glasgow Subway train for 43 years entered service a few minutes ago. They will eventually routinely have no driver or staff on board. @TheScotsman background:
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2 years
"Charles and Camilla looked old and dissolute; William and Kate, airbrushed and priggish. Harry and Meghan, ahead of the curve, have abandoned the “Firm” in advance of its extinction" - @DaniGaravelli1 not pulling her punches in @scotonsunday
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1 year
Glasgow's newest cycle path - a gentler version of San Francisco's Lombard Street. But where am I?
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Alastair Dalton
2 years
Congratulations to @JennyGilruth for becoming Scotland's first female transport minister for 20 years - high time for more gender balance in the portfolio. Look forward to meeting you.
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Flying Scotsman-Royal Scotsman collision: I’ve just been sent this video apparently showing Friday's incident in Aviemore. If this is your footage, please DM me so I can credit you and request permission to use it for @TheScotsman . Story by @alanyoung3000 :
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Alastair Dalton
6 years
Exclusive: Britain's first cycle carriages to run on one of Scotland's busiest rail lines next summer @transcotland @ScotRail @HITRANS_RTP
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5 years
Hmm. They blamed the lack of a promised air tax cut in scrapping Scottish transatlantic routes. A tax Ireland doesn't have. Norwegian Air to discontinue transatlantic routes via @rte
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Euston Station's departure board (in background) to be used as a giant advertising screen, dwarfing the new boards in foreground, @GarethDennis has just told @RailNatter . Is that an improvement for passengers, @NetworkRailEUS ?
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5 years
VIDEO: World's largest passenger aircraft has just landed at Glasgow Airport - Emirates' Airbus A380 - from Dubai
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4 years
EXCLUSIVE: LNER to re-record onboard announcements after Scottish passengers complained that station mispronounciations were like “nails on a blackboard”. @LNER
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5 years
Scotland's first buses which can carry bikes inside @BordersBuses @ADLbus
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5 years
Exclusive: Deluxe new Caledonian Sleeper fleet to enter service on Sunday
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1 year
Peak ScotRail fares to be removed in six-month experiment as part of Scottish Government's Fair Fares review, John Swinney announces @TheScotsman #ScottishBudget
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1 year
Exclusive in @TheScotsman on Saturday: Caledonian Sleeper expected to be nationalised by SNP Scottish Government in announcement next week.
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4 years
Exclusive: Design for UK's first cycle carriages revealed @ScotRail @transcotland
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3 years
NEW: Thai restaurant in 40-year-old British Rail coaches in Pitlochry approved by councillors today
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Alastair Dalton
5 years
We genuinely thought we had this story to ourselves but I've just learned another newspaper published online simultaneously with us. Respect to @RE_DailyMail .
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7 years
BTP-Police Scotland merger "opposed by everyone who knows anything about way railway works...a disaster for the railway" - @kevlindsayaslef
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We're back. 150 years after opening our first Glasgow office in 1872, @TheScotsman has returned to the city centre. With our Edinburgh office now also back in the heart of the capital, it should soon be possible to travel between them within an hour for the first time since 1999.
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5 years
WATCH New Caledonian Sleeper arriving at Glasgow Central for its debut passenger service @TheScotsman
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7 years
Exclusive: Plans for UK's first Dutch-style segregated cycle junction in Glasgow to boost safety @GlasgowCC @SustransScot #csconf17
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ICYMI Can you help me trace the person who shot this video of the Flying Scotsman crash on the Strathspey Railway in Aviemore on Friday evening so @TheScotsman can seek permission to use it, with credit? Thanks
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4 years
Widened pavements across Glasgow and first road closure announced
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Alastair Dalton
5 years
Exclusive pictures - ScotRail plans new carriages for skis, boards and bikes on snowsports express
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Alastair Dalton
5 years
"I’m going to be encouraging individuals to take a chance on change - to leave the car at home sometimes and to ride, walk or take public transport instead so they might experience the massive gains to our health and communities" -m @leecraigie_
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Alastair Dalton
1 year
Parking fine freeze because of cost-of-living crisis ‘makes no sense’ – @LivingStreetsEd . "Slap in the face to those who abide by rules of the road" - @CllrScottArthur
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Alastair Dalton
6 years
M90 today. Snowdrifts a major hazard - @NicolaSturgeon Picture: @trafficscotland
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5 years
Glasgow cityscape visible at last from new glass frontage at Glasgow Queen Street Station @NetworkRailGQS @ScotRail
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6 years
More from the eerie Bishopton tunnel on the Glasgow-Gourock line. Picture: @NetworkRailSCOT
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5 years
Inside Transport: Give us more cycle space to make Scotland a genuinely cyclable nation
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Alastair Dalton
6 years
Breaking: 1,000+ jobs to be created at new train-building factory at Longannet in Fife Breaking: 1,000+ jobs to be created at new train-building factory at Longannet in Fife
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6 years
New features aboard the Caledonian Sleeper include lockable storage and shoe cleaners
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7 years
ScotRail bounces back to record passenger satisfaction from 14-year low + best-ever rating for dealing with delays
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7 years
The cost saving of switching from car to bike commuting is the equivalent of 8% pay rise - @SustransScot @sustrans
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Alastair Dalton
3 years
SNP-Greens deal includes a move away from roadbuilding, possible driver charging, more 20mph zones and potential rail re-openings
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Alastair Dalton
7 months
Scotland's newest bridge arrived in Glasgow today - the Govan-Partick pedestrian/cycle crossing over the River Clyde, brought by barge from Belgium via canals in the Netherlands. The 99m, 650 tonne moving span is due to be lifted into place next, and the fixed span next summer.
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Alastair Dalton
4 years
Glenfinnan Viaduct which featured in Harry Potter films lit up blue for NHS heroes Pic: Martyn White
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5 years
Inside Transport: Bike lanes in such bad condition "they look like archeological evidence of a past civilisation that once encouraged cycling"
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Alastair Dalton
5 years
Unbelievable. Here he is at Prestwick and our story:
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Martyn McLaughlin
5 years
Your firm had an "official partnership" with the airport. You gave a press conference in one of its hangars in Nov 2014. Your company discussed business opportunities and integration with it, and provided it with discounted rates at Turnberry. It has everything to do with you.
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5 years
"A cracker of a story" - @EamonnONeill on @BBCWeekendGMS
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Alastair Dalton
5 years
First of new driverless Glasgow Subway trains arrive in city. More soon @TheScotsman Background
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Alastair Dalton
3 years
"How do I feel about driving the High Speed Train? Angry, terrified, powerless." - powerful first-hand testimony from a ScotRail driver amid calls for them to be scrapped over safety
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Alastair Dalton
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“Cycle tourism offers a richer experience for the visitor, while having a much lower impact on the environment” - @John_Lauder @SustransScot
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3 years
Glasgow's busiest bike lane closed:"The opportunity seems to have been missed to provide a gold standard alternative route that underlines the key importance of encouraging more cycling in the face of the climate emergency that COP26 is seeking to address"
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Alastair Dalton
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A station transformed. Sunlight fills concourse, new information screens...now get the shops back to cut the coffee queues. Glasgow Queen Street @NetworkRailGQS @ScotRail
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Alastair Dalton
5 years
Countdown to a milestone: Brand new Caledonian Sleeper service launched from Glasgow tonight @CalSleeper
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Alastair Dalton
5 years
"While most motorists want to see congestion reduced, they are reluctant to alter their own driving habits. Or - to put it another way - everybody wants the open road to themselves". @DaniGaravelli1 on plans for workplace parking charges
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Alastair Dalton
3 years
BREAKING: ScotRail COP26 and Sunday strikes off after deal done, RMT has told me. 2.5 per cent one-year deal & other extra payments but no strings. More soon @TheScotsman
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Alastair Dalton
5 years
Revealed: How @ScotRail 's new UK-first cycle/snowsports carriages could look
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Alastair Dalton
5 years
NEW Electric bikes being hired twice as much as standard bikes at month-old Glasgow rental scheme @nextbikeUK @GlasgowCC @CyclingScotland @ForthEnviroLink @cyclehire_edi
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4 years
NEW: First Scottish 'bike bus' route launched from Berwick to Edinburgh @BordersBuses @westcoastbuses @CyclingUKScot @MathesonMichael
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Alastair Dalton
5 years
The brand-new trains that mean it's all electric between Edinburgh and Glasgow from today @ScotRail @NetworkRailSCOT
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6 years
Skye tourism firms issue "unprecedented" open letter to counter reports that the island is being swamped with tourists @SkyeConnect @KateForbesMSP
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6 years
Exclusive: First look inside brand new Caledonian Sleeper trains being fitted out in Glasgow @CalSleeper
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Alastair Dalton
5 years
@RE_DailyMail They gave no indication anyone else was onto story throughout the afternoon!
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Alastair Dalton
4 years
Historic paddle steamer Waverley to resume Clyde cruises this week after nearly two years following boiler replacement and Covid shutdown @PS_Waverley @PSPS_UK
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Alastair Dalton
6 years
Breaking: ScotRail expecting to open all routes on Sunday except possibly Inverness-Wick/Thurso: "It's been a massive operation to clear almost 2,800 miles of track. ScotRail Alliance staff have worked day and night to clear deep snow and ice". @NetworkRailSCOT @ScotRail
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Alastair Dalton
3 years
"Never in my career as a journalist have I come under such a co-ordinated attack from those in power....people entrusted to do the right thing by their constituents would take a leaf out of Donald Trump’s Fake News playbook" - @JayMitchinson
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Alastair Dalton
6 years
Striking seating design for disabled/elderly/pregnant passengers in new @HitachiRailEU train for @ScotRail which enters service tomorrow @TheScotsman
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3 years
I'm calling this out as racist and have reported this to Twitter
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@AlastairDalton She's still a foreigner ye ninny. She's not Scottish and not British... she is a fucking guest in our country. That's it.
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5 years
"Don't think of it as a bus but as 30-40 people whose lives could be made better" - Traffic Commissioner Joan Aitken Councils told to stop great bus slowdown in cities
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Alastair Dalton
4 years
EXCLUSIVE: Free public transport for all to be pledged by Greens @scotgp @patrickharvie
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Alastair Dalton
1 year
"I’ve said it before, but it’s worth repeating, that at least one health board has highlighted that damage to pavements caused by vehicles has caused the premature death or serious injury of elderly people who trip and fall"
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Leith Walk this afternoon- just down from Iona Street - @CllrScottArthur
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1 year
I'm aboard an autonomous bus crossing the Forth Road Bridge - on a trial run ahead of the start of passenger service between Fife and Edinburgh on Monday. More later @TheScotsman
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5 years
Inside Transport: It's all about walking and cycling @mathesonmichael @SustransScot
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5 years
Video: Glasgow driver angrily tells cyclist he's safe using his mobile phone behind the wheel - then crashes Footage: @magnatom
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5 years
"The situation should make all parties think long & hard about the kind of knee-jerk opposition we see every time the Government so much as contemplates anything designed to encourage people out of their cars. The statistics should be a wake-up call to all of us"- @NicolaSturgeon
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Huge rise in Scottish road traffic sparks call for 'bold action' by @JohnFinnieHI @WWFScotland
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2 years
Day one proper at the new @TheScotsman office in Glasgow after our move from Cessnock. View from the shared working area feels like we're finally back in the thick of it.
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Flybe has just been in touch to emphasise what happened was the responsibility of its franchise partner Eastern Airways.
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Ex Great Western Railway InterCity125 in new ScotRail livery at Brush works in Loughborough. The refurbished 40-year-old trains are due to operate Edinburgh/Glasgow-Aberdeen/Inverness from May. Pic: Inter City Railway Society
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2 months
Edinburgh Castle from our office building in Princes Street today. ..
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Alastair Dalton
5 years
Queen Street station evacuated after High Speed Train catches fire (?) - or just belches excess smoke? Not the first time for one of these 40-year-old trains acquired by ScotRail last year - Pic: @chris_fernand More soon @TheScotsman
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