By Alastair Dalton, The Scotsman; March 30, 2018
ScotRail is in a race against time to find more stand-in trains to avert further overcrowding because of delays to a brand new fleet.
Hitachi electric trains which should have started running on the Edinburgh-Glasgow main line last September are not now expected in service for several more months.
However, four of ScotRail’s older trains have already left Scotland because their leases have expired.