Question reference: S6W-09178
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 16 June 2022
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Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 30 June 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many rail replacement bus services ScotRail has provided on each day since it came into public ownership on 1 April 2022.
Answer
The replacement (planned and unplanned) of train services with bus replacement services remains an operational matter for ScotRail. Planned buses replace train services that have been impacted as a result of planned works on Scotland’s railway i.e. planned engineering works. ScotRail advise that 515 buses were booked during April 2022. This figure is particularly high with bus replacement services planned every day in April as a result of the Anderston works.
Unplanned buses replace train services that have been impacted as a result of driver shortages, trespassing onto the tracks, fleet issues, signalling issues, points failures and other track faults. ScotRail advise they were supplied with a total of 143 bus replacement services to cover unplanned train service disruption during April 2022.
The breakdown for each day during April 2022 for unplanned and planned bus replacement is as follows:-
Date | Number of Buses booked to ScotRail (Planned Train Service Disruption) | Number of Buses supplied to ScotRail (Unplanned Train Service Disruption) |
01 April 2022 | 20 | 6 |
02 April 2022 | 23 | 12 |
03 April 2022 | 20 | 12 |
04 April 2022 | 14 | 3 |
05 April 2022 | 14 | 10 |
06 April 2022 | 14 | 3 |
07 April 2022 | 14 | 6 |
08 April 2022 | 14 | 4 |
09 April 2022 | 17 | 1 |
10 April 2022 | 20 | 8 |
11 April 2022 | 14 | 6 |
12 April 2022 | 14 | 2 |
13 April 2022 | 14 | 7 |
14 April 2022 | 14 | 6 |
15 April 2022 | 14 | 1 |
16 April 2022 | 18 | 6 |
17 April 2022 | 20 | 6 |
18 April 2022 | 23 | 0 |
19 April 2022 | 14 | 1 |
20 April 2022 | 14 | 9 |
21 April 2022 | 14 | 1 |
22 April 2022 | 14 | 1 |
23 April 2022 | 17 | 2 |
24 April 2022 | 20 | 12 |
25 April 2022 | 14 | 5 |
26 April 2022 | 14 | 0 |
27 April 2022 | 14 | 4 |
28 April 2022 | 14 | 6 |
29 April 2022 | 14 | 3 |
30 April 2022 | 51 | 0 |
Grand Total | 515 | 143 |