The contract with the firm running the Caledonian Sleeper will end in June of next year, the Scottish Government has said, with a senior Scottish National Party MSP claiming there is an “opportunity” for public ownership.
Transport minister Jenny Gilruth said in an answer to a parliamentary question that a new contract with Serco - the firm that has run the service for the past seven years - does not represent “value for money to the public”.
The franchise will end on 25 June, but it is not clear who will take over the running of the trains, which offer services from as far north as Inverness to London.
