The agreement is clear that any future electrified lines would be ‘guaranteed a conductor (guard) on every new electrified train’ and that ‘the conductor (guard) will retain their full competency (rules, track safety, evacuation) and that ‘ScotRail services will continue to be dispatched under 1 https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/questions-and-answers/question?ref=S6W-22622 2 existing arrangements’. The agreement was signed in 2016 and states that ‘these arrangements transfer over as per all other collective agreements at the end of the franchise’.