Rail union in legal action

Union leaders are to take legal action against ScotRail in a dispute over the use of "driver-only" trains on the new £300 million Airdrie-Bathgate line.

The RMT union has ruled out any further strikes over the absence of conductors on the new line - which does not open until December - after a series of walkouts earlier in the year.

Instead it will now focus on a legal and political campaign against the proposals for drivers to operate the doors on the line, which will run from Glasgow to Edinburgh via Airdrie and Bathgate, with a ticket examiner as the second person on board.