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Rail services improved, says report

Nov 28 2008

First ScotRail has improved the quality of train services across the country since taking them over four years ago, an official report has found.

But the extension of the contract until 2014 could have been handled better, the Audit Scotland report concluded.

Rail unions and MSPs hit out at the lack of transparency over the extension when it was announced in April and said the government should have waited for Friday's report into the way the firm is running the franchise.

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