Alastair Dalton Journalist
  • Glasgow
  • National World

Alastair Dalton is a specialist news reporter and columnist for The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and the Edinburgh Evening News with a strong track record of breaking major Scottish transport stories and providing incisive coverage and analysis of sector issues across online and print. His most recent industry honour was winning the Finance/Business Journalist of the Year runner-up award at the 2020 Scottish Press Awards.

Published In

The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday

Focus Areas

  • Transport

591 Articles
almost 2 years ago
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Edinburgh Airport transatlantic traffic soars back to pre-Covid levels

A post-pandemic resurgence in air travel has seen Edinburgh Airport almost fully recover its international passenger ...

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almost 2 years ago
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9000 apply for ScotRail train driver jobs as it is swamped with applications

ScotRail is to start training a further 135 drivers this autumn from a huge “talent pool” after more than 9,000 peopl...

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almost 2 years ago
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ScotRail alcohol ban a small price to pay to prevent even more violence and intimidation on our t...

When it comes to alcohol, taking away our right to drink can hit a raw nerve.

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almost 2 years ago
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Strike ballot threat after hundreds of RMT members reject ScotRail pay offer

Members of ScotRail’s main union have rejected a 5 per cent pay offer on Thursday and threatened a strike ballot if t...

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almost 2 years ago
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Dereliction threat to Scotland’s canals from financial restrictions hampering regeneration

The transformation of derelict areas around Scotland's canals after the huge success of the Kelpies and Falkirk Wheel...

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almost 2 years ago
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‘Appalling’ number of historic Scottish rail worker casualties detailed in new memorial archive

The horrific scale of deaths and injuries to railway workers a century ago has been laid bare in an online memorial p...

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almost 2 years ago
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Why rural petrol stations are charging less than those in the city – Alastair Dalton

Heading away to Argyll for the weekend, we couldn’t believe the way the petrol prices started changing as we left Gla...

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almost 2 years ago
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Menzies Aviation offers ‘wholehearted apology’ for Edinburgh Airport baggage chaos that put it un...

Baggage firm Menzies Aviation has offered a “whole-hearted apology” to passengers for the baggage chaos at Edinburgh ...

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almost 2 years ago
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Menzies Aviation ‘should hang their heads in shame for deplorable lack of customer care’

An East Lothian family awaiting their luggage two weeks after flying home from San Francisco said baggage firm Menzie...

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almost 2 years ago
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Crackdown urged to tackle ‘post-Covid bounce’ in anti-social behaviour on public transport

A crackdown on anti-social behaviour by football fans and others on trains and buses has been urged by the head of th...

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almost 2 years ago
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Airport baggage firms’ communication with passengers lost in transit along with their suitcases –...

Passengers’ major concern about the staff shortage nightmare that has plagued air travel used to be: will my flight b...

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almost 2 years ago
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Office of Rail regulator raises concerns about Network Rail Scotland’s remedial work after fatal ...

The rail regulator has raised concerns about Network Rail Scotland’s work to help prevent a repeat of the fatal Carmo...

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