ScotRail blames driver pay row for shortage of daily services
ScotRail will cut almost 700 services a day from Monday, due to a shortage of drivers in an ongoing pay dispute.It comes just a week after the operator, which was nationalised last month, launched a new timetable.
The May 2022 timetable had approximately 2,150 weekday services. From next week this will be reduced by a third to 1,456.Similar cuts are expected to be made to the Saturday and Sunday timetables with details expected to be made public in the coming days. "We know what customers want more than anything is certainty and reliability, which is why we are introducing a temporary timetable.
Kevin Lindsay, Aslef Scotland organiser, said: "This is what happens when you have political interference in industrial relations.
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