How Tuesday's rail strike will affect Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife
Plan your journey ahead of the rail strikes.
Commuters across Scotland are facing travel chaos on the railways as the first in a series of strikes takes place.
A number of key services will be cancelled or reduced.
The Rail, Maritime and Transport union is in dispute with Scotrail over 'driver-only' trains, which they believe are unsafe.
The cancelled services in our area are: - Edinburgh – North Berwick/Dunbar - Edinburgh – Aberdeen/Dyce/Inverurie - Edinburgh – Alloa (a limited Edinburgh – Dunblane service will operate as above) - North Berwick/Edinburgh – Glasgow Central/Ayr via Motherwell and Carstairs (Glasgow – Ayr services will operate as normal)
There will be no replacement buses for those services.
A number of services will be running on a reduced timetable.
These trains will run on a reduced service from 7am-7pm - on an hourly basis: - Edinburgh – Tweedbank - Edinburgh – Fife Circle - Edinburgh – Perth/Inverness - Edinburgh – Dundee - Edinburgh – Dunblane - Edinburgh – Glasgow Queen St Low Level via Falkirk High.
The new Borders railway will be one of the worst affected.
However, if you are travelling to work on the Edinburgh to Fife Circle route, you may have trouble. The first service runs at 6:37am, but there isn't another until 8:40am. The last service from the capital will leave at 5:52pm.
For a full list of the latest cancelled and reduced services and journey information, visit Scotrail’s website at https://www.scotrail.co.uk.