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
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:
"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
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.
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
:
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
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
?
EXCLUSIVE: LNER to re-record onboard announcements after Scottish passengers complained that station mispronounciations were like “nails on a blackboard”.
@LNER
Peak ScotRail fares to be removed in six-month experiment as part of Scottish Government's Fair Fares review, John Swinney announces
@TheScotsman
#ScottishBudget
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
.
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.
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
"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_
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
The inspirational champion of walking who made it a Scottish transport priority - Ian Findlay of Paths for All.
@PathsforAll
. Memories incl from
@GibbRona
@John_Lauder
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
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.
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.
"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
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"
A station transformed. Sunlight fills concourse, new information screens...now get the shops back to cut the coffee queues. Glasgow Queen Street
@NetworkRailGQS
@ScotRail
"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
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
Historic paddle steamer Waverley to resume Clyde cruises this week after nearly two years following boiler replacement and Covid shutdown
@PS_Waverley
@PSPS_UK
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
"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
"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
"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"
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
"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
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.
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
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