Over the past week, many of the ScotRail peak time services on the Fife Circle going through Dunfermline have seen reduced capacity to just 2 carriages, leading to some passengers being unable to get on the trains. Dunfermline’s Liberal Democrat Councillors James Calder and Aude Boubaker-Calder are calling this out and have written a letter to ScotRail as a result.

Councillor Calder and Councillor Boubaker-Calder jointly commented,

Almost 2 years ago when the Scottish Government committed to the nationalising ScotRail, they said the future service would be ‘customer-focused’.

That is not the experience for West Fife passengers right now, and during rush hour services many of the trains are running with just 2 carriages with people being packed like sardines in it. These services normally had more carriages before.

It is not right that West Fife passengers are bearing the brunt of Scottish Government’s failures to improve ScotRail and being treated as Second-Class Citizens.

We have written to ScotRail to ask why this situation is occurring and what they are going to do to sort it out.

It is important it is resolved as we need improved, not neglected, public transport locally.