ScotRail to name train after MND campaigner
Gordon Aikman died last year aged just 31 after being diagnosed with the condition in 2014.
A ScotRail train is to be named after the late motor neurone disease (MND) campaigner Gordon Aikman.
Mr Aikman died last year aged just 31 after being diagnosed with the condition in 2014.
He launched the Gordon's Fightback campaign as he battled the condition, helping raise more than ÂŁ600,000 for MND Scotland to fund research into a cure.
On Global MND Awareness Day, Scotrail said it was to name a new train after Mr Aikman to continue to raise awareness of the condition.
ScotRail Alliance managing director Alex Hynes said: "Since MND Scotland were named as the official charity partner to the ScotRail Alliance in April 2017, our customers and employees have raised more than ÂŁ104,000.
"That means we're on track to smash our target for the three-year partnership, but there's still much more we can do.
"By naming one of our trains after Gordon Aikman, we hope to honour his memory, create a legacy, and continue to raise awareness far beyond the length of our partnership with MND Scotland.''
The train will be unveiled later this year.
Mr Aikman's husband Joe Pike said: "We are incredibly touched that the ScotRail Alliance has decided to honour Gordon's memory in this way.
"Days before he died last spring, Gordon made a video to help persuade the ScotRail Alliance to make MND Scotland its chosen charity.
"He would be delighted that since then the company and its people have been so enthusiastic in their support - not just fundraising over #104,000 for care and research, but raising the profile of the disease which kills so many people across Scotland each year."