Scotland's Railway: Are they showing us the way? | Ep 09

Is Scotland's Railway better than England's? There's certainly a lot we can learn from them.

Alex Hynes (Managing Director, Scotland’s Railway) is this week's special guest to find out why they seem to keep getting it right on railways in Scotland when the rest of the UK struggles.

We talk alignment of track and train, the Sleeper, and rolling stock.

Richard Bowker puts his cynical accountant’s hat on to question the gamble Scotland has taken to scrap Peak fares for a six-month trial period.

And we find out how Scotland is responding to one of its biggest challenges – resilience in the face of extreme weather and climate change.

Away from Scotland, we pay tribute to the late Alistair Darling, Baron Darling of Roulanish and former Secretary of State for Transport, who died shortly before we recorded this episode.

Content of video:

00:00 Intro, welcome, and tribute to Alistair Darling
07:27 Scotland intro
09:43 Scotland's national transport strategy
19:14 Infrastructure and climate resilience
25:20 Trains and electrification
32:45 Sleeper
37:13 Off-Peak fares
43:32 What is yield?
45:31 What is the difference between elastic and inelastic?
46:31 Cycles on trains
50:15 Biggest challenge in the next 5/10 years
53:00 Closing remarks

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