ScotRail drivers accept deal to end long-running pay dispute

ScotRail’s Service Delivery Director Mark Ilderton said all parties had worked hard to agree a pay deal that “recognises the hard work of staff, as well as providing value for money for the public finances”.

He added: “We will provide an update for customers on the timetable as soon as possible.”

The temporary timetable has seen 1,660 services operating daily from Monday to Saturday, compared with the usual level of around 2,250 – a cut of 26%.

Normal services are unlikely to reintroduced before 7 October at the earliest.

ScotRail will need to establish how many drivers can do overtime and publish revised rotas, before making the new timetable available to passengers.

The pay agreement comes just two days before the end of a ScotRail pilot scheme that scrapped peak-time train fares.

Transport Scotland said the project, which saw ticket prices subsidised by the Scottish government and standardised across the day, “did not achieve its aims” of persuading more people to swap car journeys for rail travel.