ScotRail (brand)

This article is about the brand used for the Scottish rail network since 1983. For other uses, see ScotRail.

ScotRail

Rèile na h-Alba
Main area(s)	Scotland Cumbria Northumberland
Stations called at	353 operated
Other
Website	www.scotrail.co.uk

ScotRail (Template:Lang-gd) has been the brand name used for all Scottish regional and commuter rail services, including some cross-border services, since September 1983. Since 2008, it is the permanent name of the Scottish franchised rail services, regardless of the train operating company that operates them.

History

Regional Railways ScotRail branding on Mark 2 coach number 5174 at the Northampton & Lamport Railway on 26 January 2008

Transitional First ScotRail branding (First logo on the National Express colours) on 156457 at Oban on 25 June 2005

British Rail Regional Railways' 1991 logo

File:Scotrail logo.svg

National Express ScotRail emblem (1997–2004)

Saltire style ScotRail branding 314212 at Lyoncross on 23 July 2011

British Rail

Main article: ScotRail (British Rail)

The ScotRail brand was created by British Railways Scottish Region manager Chris Green in the mid 1980s to provide a distinctive brand for the rail network in Scotland. The brand has developed and is still in use today.

ScotRail, under BR, used customised versions of the existing British Rail liveries, with passenger locomotives and coaching stock painted in a lightly modified version of the InterCity Executive livery. The red stripe was replaced with a saltire blue stripe, and the InterCity name was replaced with the ScotRail name. Most Diesel Locomotives carried standard InterCity Executive livery, but with ScotRail branding. Diesel and Electric multiple units carried normal versions of the Regional Railways livery. In the SPT area, rolling stock (DMU and EMU) was painted in Strathclyde Orange and Black.

National Express

Main article: ScotRail (National Express)

The brand was adopted by National Express when it took over the franchise from British Railways during privatisation in 1997. The first unique ScotRail livery was introduced shortly after privatisation under National Express, who introduced their own livery. Initially, vehicles received the new ScotRail logo applied with vinyl stickers; a stylised outline of Scotland composed of three flashes in the corporate colours of green, red and purple. Multiple units were painted into the new livery with bodies in white (lower half) and purple (upper half) with green, red and white stripes bordering the purple, overlain by and a wide diagonal white band in the centre of the carriage. There were no units left with Regional Railways livery in Scotland at the end of the National Express franchise period, although the Class 305 electric units retained it until withdrawal in 2001. The latter were replaced by ex-Stansted Skytrain Class 322 units which were never repainted under the National Express franchise, receiving only ScotRail logo transfers. When the Class 322 hire ended in 2004, they were replaced on the North Berwick branch by English Welsh & Scottish Class 90 electric locomotives hauling former Virgin Trains Mk.3 coaching stock, in the old Virgin red and grey livery, again with ScotRail logo transfers.

FirstGroup

Main article: First ScotRail

When FirstGroup became the franchisee on 17 October 2004, in line with other rail franchises it held, the brand was revised as First ScotRail, having outbid National Express.

When First originally acquired the franchise, a new regional livery of pink, grey and purple and a new logo of a pink circle and an italicised "f" character was introduced. Legislation requiring train doors to be painted in a contrasting colour to the body for visually impaired passengers resulted in white doors with a pink stripe. Like National Express, First applied their logo on units by transfer until repainting. A large number of units were re-branded into this livery, including the Class 322 units re-acquired (and refurbished) for North Berwick service and the Class 90 locomotives used on Caledonian Sleeper services.

Transport Scotland

In September 2008, the Scottish Government agency, Transport Scotland, announced that the franchised Scottish rail services would be permanently renamed ScotRail. Transport Scotland came up with a new livery which will be applied to all of Scotland's trains, when they went into maintenance. The new livery is dark blue background, with grey doors and a white dotted 'Saltire' Scottish flag. A new logo is also applied, ScotRail, with the tagline 'Scotland's Railway', which on some units is replaced with the Scottish Gaelic translation 'Rèile na h-Alba'. Stations and staff uniforms have also been given a new dark blue look. This livery is not going to be replaced when the franchise ends, the only branding showing the operator will be a small "ScotRail is operated by" sign on the station building and on the train doors. The franchise transferred to Abellio ScotRail on 1 April 2015.

Caledonian Sleeper

Main article: Caledonian Sleeper

The Caledonian Sleeper rolling stock was not treated with the Transport Scotland livery as it was transferred to a separate franchise operated by Serco on 1 April 2015.

Abellio

Main article: Abellio ScotRail

Since 1 April 2015 ScotRail has been operated by Abellio.

Rolling stock

Past Fleet

Class	Image	Type	Top Speed		Routes	Built	Notes
			mph	kmh
101		DMU	70	112	-	1956- 1960

Current fleet

Class	Image	Type	Top speed		Number	Cars	Routes	Built	Notes
			mph	km/h
68		Diesel Locomotive	100	160	2	N/A	Fife Circle Line	2013-14	On hire from DRS
Mark 2 carriage		Passenger Carriage	100	160	12	6		1973-75
156 Super Sprinter		DMU	75	120	48	2	Glasgow South Western Line East Kilbride Branch Maryhill Line Tyne Valley line West Highland Line (Until October/November 2018) Cumbernauld Line (Until October 2018) Shotts Line (Until March 2019)	1987-89	38 units will remain in service with ScotRail after all of Scotrail's new rolling stock has been introduced in Summer 2019
158 Express Sprinter			90	145	46	2	Far North Line Kyle of Lochalsh Line Fife Circle Borders Railway West Highland Line (From October 2018) Glasgow to Edinburgh via Shotts (Until March 2019) Glasgow to Anniesland (Until October 2018) Glasgow Queen Street to Falkirk Grahamston (Until October 2018) Glasgow/Edinburgh to Inverness (Until October 2018)	1989-92	38 units will remain in service with ScotRail after all of Scotrail's new rolling stock has been introduced in Summer 2019
170 Turbostar			100	161	55	3	Fife Circle Borders Railway Saturday Services to Dunbar and a peak time North Berwick Service (Until October 2018) Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk (Until October 2018) Glasgow/Edinburgh to Aberdeen (Until May 2019) Edinburgh/Glasgow to Dunblane and Alloa (Until December 2018) Glasgow/Edinburgh to Inverness (Until May 2019) Glasgow and Edinburgh to Perth/Dundee/Carnoustie from Late 2018/Early 2019	1998-2005	34 units will remain in service with ScotRail after all of Scotrail's new rolling stock has been introduced in Summer 2019
314		EMU	70	113	16	3	Cathcart Circle Lines, Inverclyde Line, Paisley Canal Line.	1979	To be completely withdrawn when all the Class 385s are introduced in October 2018
318			90	145	21	3	North Clyde Line, Whifflet Line, Cumbernauld Line	1986-87
320			90	145	29	3	North Clyde Line, Cumbernauld Line, Whifflet Line	1990	Seven of these 29 units are Class 320/4s, and have a top speed of 100mph (160kmh)
334 Juniper			90	145	40	3	North Clyde Line, Helensburgh Central/ Balloch/ Milngavie to Edinburgh Waverly	1999-2002
365			100	161	10	4	Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line (Until October 2018)	1994–1995
380 Desiro			100	160	22	3	Ayrshire Coast Line, Paisley Canal Line, Cumbernauld Line, Inverclyde Line Glasgow - Edinburgh via Falkirk Line (Until October 2018) Cathcart Circle Lines (Until October 2018) North Berwick and Dunbar services (Until October 2018)	2009-11
					16	4
385			100	161	3	3	Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line Glasgow and Edinburgh to Dunblane and Alloa (From December 2018) Glasgow to Edinburgh via Shotts (From March 2019) Glasgow-Cathcart Circle/Neilston/Newton (From October 2018) Glasgow to Edinburgh via Motherwell and Carstairs (From October 2018) Glasgow and Edinburgh to North Berwick/Dunbar (From October 2018)	2015–2017	Due to replace the Class 314s from October 2018
					1	4

Future fleet

Abellio ScotRail has mentioned the following as part of the future rolling stock.

Class	Image	Type	Top speed		Number	Carriages	Into Service	Built	Routes
			mph	km/h
153 Super Sprinter		DMU	75	120	5	1	October/November 2018	1987–88	West Highland Line (From 2018) Kyle Line, Far North Line (From 2020)
43 High Speed Train		Diesel locomotive	125	200	54	N/A	From August 2018 to May 2019	1975–82	On longer-distance services between Edinburgh, Glasgow, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Mark 3 carriage		Passenger carriage			121	4 and 5