ScotRail suffers biggest passenger drop as numbers plummet to lowest for 150 years
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR), which regulates the network, said the estimated reduction because of the Covid-19 outbreak was unprecedented.
More than 400 million fewer journeys were made between April and June compared with the same period in 2019.
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Hide AdScotRail’s total fell the most, to just 4.3 per cent of last year’s level.
It carried 1.01 million passengers over the three months compared to around 25m normally.
The reduction led to Scottish Government support for ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper to virtually double over the last six months to around £500m.
No Sleeper figures were available.