Shop
Your Account Sign In
Support Us
Subscribe
Britain World Editorial Features Culture Sport
Britain World Editorial Features Culture Sport
Climate Crisis Far Right Gaza Workers' Rights Labour Party Women’s Rugby World Cup Morning Star Video TUC Congress 2025
Latest editorial
The left must understand and challenge the right’s demagogy
Advertise Contact us Shop Subscribe Support us Daily Alert
Climate Crisis Far Right Gaza Workers' Rights Labour Party Women’s Rugby World Cup Morning Star Video TUC Congress 2025
Gifts from The Morning Star
Britain / 23 July 2019
Springburn workers to mark
Conrad Landin
Recent
Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump during a bilateral meeting at Chequers, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, on day two of the president's second state visit to the UK, September 18, 2025
Britain / 18 September 2025
Starmer urges Trump to take a harder line on Russia
18 September 2025
Politics / 18 September 2025
Your Party divisions explode into the open
18 September 2025
Education / 18 September 2025
Persistent gender pay gap in teaching ‘grossly unfair’, union says
18 September 2025
Wales / 18 September 2025
Urgent need for transport in Wales to tackle poverty, says think tank
18 September 2025
Wales / 18 September 2025
Fund GP practices properly or risk losing the service, warns the BMA at Senedd inquiry
18 September 2025
Scotland / 18 September 2025
Constance defends Swinney's attendance at Trump jamboree
18 September 2025
Britain / 18 September 2025
Offshore workers win up to £8,000 award after threatening strike action
18 September 2025
Book your advertising in print and online
Donate to the 95th anniversary appeal

RAIL workers will demonstrate outside Glasgow’s historic Springburn works on Friday — the day it is due to close.

Owners Gemini Rail Group say the works, known as the “Caley,” is no longer viable. 

New ScotRail trains are maintained and repaired directly by their manufacturers.

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
Become a subscriber
More from this author
eaf
Exhibition review / 19 August 2025
The detritus of late capitalism
19 August 2025

CONRAD LANDIN offers a guide to the diverse shows at Edinburgh Art Festival

The march passes by the refinery
Britain / 4 August 2024
Grangemouth workers vow to fight for their refinery's future
4 August 2024
The logo of the International Court of Justice, left, and th
World / 10 January 2024
South Africa can lead the world in ending the bombardment of Gaza, says anti apartheid veteran
10 January 2024
Israeli soldiers take up positions near the Gaza Strip borde
World / 7 January 2024
Palestinian ambassador to South Africa thanks it for ICJ case against ‘apartheid’ Israel
7 January 2024
Similar stories
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander (right) speaks to SWR train drivers ahead of boarding the first operational renationalised train service at Waterloo train station in central London, May 25, 2025
Railway / 25 May 2025
Cautious hope for a new era on the tracks
25 May 2025

But unions warn renationalisation must not be fudged

The steelworks plant in Scunthorpe
Britain / 11 April 2025
Parliament recalled for MPs to vote on nationalising British Steel
11 April 2025
Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan (centre) on the picket l
Features / 22 February 2025
‘Build it, and they’ll come’ – the case for investment in rail
22 February 2025
Aslef general secretary MICK WHELAN speaks to Ben Chacko about rail renationalisation, the Employment Rights Bill and why we shouldn’t write off this Labour government
Voices of Scotland / 8 December 2024
ScotRail: public ownership but no consultation with the public?
8 December 2024
Despite promises of a new era under state control, the SNP government backs massive cuts to ticket office hours while ignoring safety concerns and excluding disabled passengers from consultation, writes ANN HENDERSON