Peak fares will be abolished on ScotRail in September, after a previous trial ended last year on the grounds that it had not attracted enough extra passengers to balance the books. The Scottish Greens had criticised the decision to end the pilot, and the party has welcomed the Scottish Government’s change of heart.

The RMT is calling for outsourcing -- the use of contractors to provide services like cleaning and catering -- to be abolished on the railways. A new report from the union claims that thousands of workers who are mainly from black and minority ethnic communities are ‘trapped’ in jobs with no pensions or training, and have no pathway to promotion.