Traffic and Travel

The first new Scotland to London sleeper trains for 40 years are set to enter service this weekend.

Electric trains are now running on all five routes between Edinburgh and Glasgow with the launch of electric services on the line via Shotts today.

BUS bosses are facing a growing protest over access for buggies on their new 100-seater double-deckers.

Passengers will board the first new overnight Scotland-London trains for nearly 40 years on Sunday, Caledonian Sleeper will announce today.

This week Labour MP Diane Abbott apologised after a photo showing her drinking a Marks & Spencer canned alcoholic cocktail on a Transport for London overground train was circulated.

Scotland’s busiest airport could be set to change hands in a multibillion pound deal, according to reports.

A multi-vehicle crash on the M8 is caused delays for drivers coming into Edinburgh on Sunday afternoon.

Unfinished work on the Queensferry Crossing has been further delayed, more than 18 months after the bridge opened.

Scotrail train services in and out of Edinburgh were disrupted for most of this afternoon as engineers battled signalling faults at both sides of the Glasgow to Edinburgh Waverley line.

A PEDESTRIAN has been rushed to hospital after being struck by a vehicle in the Capital’s city centre.

Proposals to allow five boats to be used as floating hotels on the Union Canal are set to be approved – despite tallying up 374 letters of objection.

If transport bosses learned anything from their first effort at tram building in Edinburgh, it was surely the need for transparency.

Edinburgh city centre was brought to a standstill after hundreds of environmental protesters occupied North Bridge as part of nationwide demonstrations demanding action to tackle climate change.

Readers have been reacting after killjoy cabbies complained about a cheeky private hire boss buying the number plate TAX1.

Bus bosses should issue free school trip tickets to children living in poverty in the Capital, it was claimed yesterday.

KILLJOY cabbies have complained to the council after a cheeky private hire boss bought the number plate TAX1.

Union leaders have warned buses could be taken off Edinburgh’s streets within weeks after a huge majority of Lothian staff who took part in a consultation backed strike action.