Transport

The Foreign Office came in for some stick on Twitter last night after tweeting about the new Queensferry Crossing... with an accompanying image of the Forth Bridge. The responses were typically tongue in cheek...

THE Capital’s new 20mph speed limit will be rolled out to a massive swathe of the city in the new year, despite a lack of direct evidence on how the first phase has worked.

A chartered plane with a Brazilian first division football team crashed in Colombia while on its way to the final of a regional tournament, killing 75 people.

Transport minister Humza Yousaf said today it would be "all shoulders to the wheel" for ScotRail to turn round its performance after recent major disruption in Edinburgh and Glasgow.

AN ABERDEENSHIRE railway station which closed over 50 years ago will be revived - if authorities can plug a £2.9m funding gap.

Commuters are facing chaos this morning after a train derailed in Edinburgh.

Network Rail was responsible for more than half the delays on Scotland’s trains over the last year, a think-tank has said.

Ryanair has launched a huge Cyber Monday sale with up to 20% off 10 million seats on sale on their website.

The M90 is to close a slip road between 8pm and 6am for two nights to allow barriers to be repaired.

Nearly 50 trains a day are cancelled or significantly delayed on Scotland’s railways, according to new analysis by Scottish Labour.

Just 1% of councillors contacted over controversial plans to alter flight paths above Scotland’s busiest airport responded to a consultation on the issue, a new publication shows.

EasyJet plans to expand its flight network in Scotland after carrying more than six million passengers to and from the country over the past year.

An English council has asked the public to help name a new road gritter - with predictable results.

Oldham Council had originally asked primary school children in the region to help name its new gritter after previously enlisting the pupils to name previous vehicles, including Gritney Spears and Freddie Salted.

Transport police have launched an appeal for information after a woman was assaulted on an Edinburgh-bound train.

Travellers could soon be arriving at Glasgow Airport on trams, if a new £144 million rail link project is given the green light.

Liberal Democrat MSPs are set to demand cheaper ferry fares for the Northern Isles.

Rail commuters in Scotland were hit by more disruption today as transport minister Humza Yousaf sought to allay concerns over the situation on the country’s trains at Holyrood.

Seven people have been arrested on suspicion of being illegal workers after a raid on the Queensferry Crossing construction project.

Rail passengers are facing disruption after overhead power equipment on a busy line suffered significant damage.