TRADE unions and environmental campaigners have joined forces to demand peak fares never return to Scotland’s railways.

The Scottish SNP government announced in August that it would reintroduce peak fares, stating pilot scrapping them only delivered a 6.8 per cent passenger boost, short of the 10 per cent it claimed was required to make it “self-financing.”

The move sparked fury among trade unions which, now coupled with environmental groups, have written to Transport Secretary Fiona Hyslopp demanding a U-turn.