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Peak fares return to ScotRail
Commuters walking past a ScotRail train at Edinburgh's Waverley Station

THE Scottish government has closed climate change week by reinstating peak fares in Scotland’s railways.

From tomorrow passengers on ScotRail will face huge increases in the cost of travel after a year-long pilot scrapping peak fares comes to an end.

The pilot had generated a 7 per cent increase in passenger numbers.

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