Daily Record & Sunday Mail - Scottish News, Sport, Politics and Celeb news [Unofficial]Breathing Space benches installed at two Lanarkshire train stations
CLondoner92 (New Account)🏴🚉📚🤝 A volunteer-run bookshop at Pitlochry #railway station has raised more than £500,000 for charity, reaching £504,918 since opening in 2006. Run by local volunteers under ScotRail’s Adopt-a-Station scheme, the bookshop sells donated books from station premises provided rent-free, with all proceeds going directly to a range of local, national and international #charities.
Beneficiaries include organisations such as #Cancer Research #UK, Children’s Hospices Across #Scotland, Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance and Tayside Mountain Rescue, alongside local community groups. The initiative began as a project to revitalise unused station space and later expanded into larger premises due to its success, increasing fundraising capacity over time.
The milestone was marked at a reception in Pitlochry on 15 May 2026, with #ScotRail praising the scheme as an example of community-led station adoption and volunteers highlighting two decades of effort and public support.
https://www.scotrail.co.uk/about-scotrail/news/pitlochry-station-bookshop-reaches-500000-milestone-charity
dave cyklDetails of #ScotGov owned #ScotRail timetable changes; good to see extra #trains on Sundays on many routes, making #CarFree leisure travel more do-able.
(But when did ScotRail remove the few other operator services from their timetables? Not helpful for full overview of #Inverness + #Aberdeen #InterCity trains and especially not for #EastLothian travellers! #Integration is much more important than hiding other services out of spite and making travel options look worse!)
https://www.scotrail.co.uk/plan-your-journey/changes-our-timetables
Oh, summer #train #timetables start today, not that any GB service operators are going to tell you here (or even on Bluesky)…
Bizarrely worded #NetworkRail article: “[changes] apply to the 8 train operators in public ownership”, but #ScotRail and #TfWRail are omitted from the list, and even that it is a standardised date when •all• timetables change.
#GBRail, integrated much? 🤷♂️🙃
Rail timetable changes this Sunday deliver more seats, new overnight links and the return of a classic service
42,000 extra seats per week on London Northwestern Railway services, including more than 14,000 between Birmingham New Street and London Euston, boosting capacity on one of the country’s busiest corridors. The return of the ‘Flying Scotsman’ as LNER restores London to Edinburgh departure times that closely reflect the historic mid‑morning timetable of the iconic service. New ‘through the night’ services to Manchester Airport by TransPennine Express, providing hourly overnight trains to support early‑morning and late‑night flights.
Five Breathing Space benches have been installed at Cardonald railway station, Linlithgow, Blairhill, Shettleston and Wishaw stations for Mental Health Awareness Week (11–17 May) in #Scotland.
The scheme is part of a network of 19 benches across Scotland delivered by Network Rail, ScotRail, NHS 24’s Breathing Space service, Samaritans and local authorities, with further sites planned at South Gyle and Dunfermline Queen Margaret next month.
The benches provide places to pause, reflect and talk about mental health, with details on how to access support services.
Organisers say they aim to encourage small moments of reflection or conversation and make stations more welcoming.
Breathing Space offers free, confidential phone and webchat support for people aged 16+ feeling low or anxious, while Samaritans and #ScotRail highlight the value of taking time to sit, talk and seek help.
https://www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/a-place-to-pause-as-five-breathing-space-benches-installed-in-scotland
Train tragedy as police confirm fatality on Stirling line in late-night horror
Tor LillqvistProudly partnering with the national charity for older people. And trains? #ScotRail
Free train travel boost for people with a concession card
Ah, this is more like it. Complimentary shortbread and hopefully also hot drinks. The weather is going to be crap for some days, so I will spend the next two nights in a hotel in Dundee. But that is quite near, so taking the scenic route, first to Inverness on this lovely even if quite outdated train. Apparently the drivers don’t like these at all, ergonomics and crash safety are rubbish? #Interrail #ScotRail #FreeStuff
barclakjFree tip for anyone thinking of booking travel with #trainline and #scotrail and wanting to take a #bicycle. DON'T!
One or other, and I suspect Trainline, tell you have have a reservation then fail to honour it. Trains and bikes should be a marriage made in heaven. In the UK it's a farce. With Trainline it's a con.