UNIONS and campaigners have kicked off a week of action to scrap peak fares in the Linlithgow constituency of SNP transport secretary Fiona Hyslop after she returned them to Scotland’s railways this week.

Commuters who have seen travel costs rocket by a third since a pilot scheme which scrapped peak fares ended on Monday offered their support to Aslef activists, including their Scottish organiser Kevin Lindsay, who had branded the move a “tax on workers.”