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
scotsman.com

Electric coach firm Ember to expand Scottish network with Glasgow-Dundee service followed by Fort...

The UK's first inter-city electric coach firm is to launch a new Glasgow-Dundee route in August with plans to extend ...

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almost 2 years ago
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Dozens more ScotRail Sunday trains disrupted despite timetable slashed by 50 per cent for ‘greate...

ScotRail passengers faced further disruption on Sunday when dozens of trains were disrupted at short notice despite t...

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almost 2 years ago
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Scottish Government ferry firm would “absolutely” entrust Ferguson Marine to build more ships

The Scottish Government’s ferry-buying firm said it would “absolutely” entrust Ferguson Marine to build more ferries ...

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almost 2 years ago
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Ministers undecided despite ‘desperate’ need for another walking, cycling and wheeling champion -...

Record funding is being poured into boosting Scotland’s most basic, yet vital forms of travel – which is why independ...

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almost 2 years ago
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Reduced ScotRail timetable could continue for five weeks despite breakthrough in drivers’ pay dis...

Hundreds of daily ScotRail services could remain cancelled for more than a month despite negotiators for train driver...

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almost 2 years ago
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RMT rail strikes: Some ScotRail, LNER and other cross-Border trains likely to run

Limited ScotRail services in the Central Belt and some cross-Border trains are expected to run if three days of rail ...

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almost 2 years ago
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New ScotRail chief Joanne Maguire ‘holds no grudges’ after being told her appointment a ‘huge error’

Her appointment to run ScotRail was condemned as a “huge error”, but Joanne Maguire has revealed she bears no grudge ...

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almost 2 years ago
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‘Sharp cuts’ in Scottish bus services feared if Covid recovery cash axed

Bus service cuts and fare increases affecting far more people than ScotRail’s reduced timetable are threatened by the...

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almost 2 years ago
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‘Sharp cuts’ in Scottish bus services feared if Covid recovery cash is axed

Bus service cuts and fare increases affecting far more people than ScotRail’s reduced timetable are threatened by the...

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almost 2 years ago
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Was my cancelled flight the start of a summer of air disruption? – Alastair Dalton

Sitting on the floor of the terminal at Gatwick Airport on Sunday evening, I started to understand how those hordes o...

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almost 2 years ago
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ScotRail drivers union Aslef rejects improved pay offer and threatens strike ballot unless talks ...

Hopes of an end to widespread ScotRail disruption have been dashed after the train drivers’ union Aslef rejected an i...

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almost 2 years ago
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ScotRail seeking to increase weekend trains after 320 Sunday cancellations

ScotRail is hoping to run more weekend trains to reduce the hundreds of services cancelled because of the drivers’ pa...

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