Talk:ScotRail (brand)

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This page should not be speedy deleted because...

Purpose of the article is to provide an overall view of a trading name that has been used on and off since 1983 by 3 separate entities, ScotRail (British Rail), ScotRail (National Express) and First ScotRail, and with the franchise being relet, potentially a 4th.

The ScotRail article previously partly covered this,[1] but was also partially duplicating the First ScotRail article. As ScotRail is the trading name, this is causing issues with wikilinks that should be going to the 3 articles being pointed here by default, hence has been set up as a disambiguation page to try and reduce error rate.

Is still a work in progress. Can I please ask for some breathing space per the hatnote to expand? D47817 (talk) 22:24, 1 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Probably a good move to hive off the different ScotRail franchises into separate articles. Just a thought - is ScotRail just a brand? I think it's also a network and a (UK) National Rail franchise. Wikipedia is very inconsistent in that there are articles about some railway franchises but not all, and often an article about a TOC also covers the franchise - all a bit confusing. So maybe this article should also explain the rationale for BR creating a distinct branded network, the routes of the lines, the infrastructure etc - info which could be collated here and explained in some depth rather than being duplicated in the various ScotRail franchise articles. Cnbrb (talk) 00:24, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]