{"id":349064,"date":"2025-08-16T11:56:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349064\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T11:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:56:15","slug":"oasis-gigs-and-edinburgh-festival-bring-two-million-onto-scotlands-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/349064\/","title":{"rendered":"Oasis gigs and Edinburgh Festival bring two million onto Scotland’s railways"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly two million people took the train in the last week, with 328,000 using ScotRail on Friday.\"AroundAround 70,000 people flocked to Murrayfield each night to see Oasis(Image: Instagram)<\/p>\n

Last week was the busiest week of the year for Scotland’s rail network – with two million people travelling by train as music legends Oasis<\/a> rocked Murrayfield.<\/p>\n

The Edinburgh Festival<\/a> also brought hundreds of thousands of revellers to the capital by train, as ScotRail hailed the importance of concerts to the economy.<\/p>\n

It comes ahead of more big shows as AC\/DC are also set to play at the home of Scottish Rugby, with a gig scheduled for Thursday of this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"ScotRailScotRail staff.(Image: ScotRail.)<\/p>\n

Around 328,000 people travelled with ScotRail<\/a> last Friday, August 8, 2025, which was 19 per cent more passengers than on the same day last year.<\/p>\n

A further 327,000 used the trains on Saturday, which was up 12 per cent on 2024. Those are the busiest days on the ScotRail network<\/a> since December 14, 2024.<\/p>\n

That is traditionally the weekend when most Christmas<\/a> parties and nights out take place. The last of the Oasis concerts on Tuesday delivered another boost.<\/p>\n

The number of Oasis fans<\/a> heading to the reunion tour gigs by train means for the week from Friday, August 8, 1,995,000 people travelled on ScotRail services.<\/p>\n

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ScotRail laid on more services and seats for fans travelling to Murrayfield<\/a> to watch the first Oasis gig in Scotland in 16 years – since the 2009 show at Murrayfield.<\/p>\n

Extra services were also in place for the gig on Tuesday, August 12. Frontline staff<\/a> got into the spirit of things by donning special Oasis themed bucket hats and posing for photos with customers.<\/p>\n

Full details of the extra services in place for people travelling to the Edinburgh Festivals<\/a> between now and 25 August can be found on the ScotRail website.<\/p>\n

The major events continue with rock superstars AC\/DC<\/a> playing at Murrayfield next week (Thursday, 21 August), and again extra services and more seats have been added.<\/p>\n

David Ross<\/a>, ScotRail Chief Operating Officer, said: “This week once again confirms that ScotRail is increasingly the travel mode of choice for people going to large events in Scotland.<\/p>\n

“The fact that we\u2019ve just delivered the busiest week of 2025 so far shows how important large concerts and events are to our business and the Scottish economy.”<\/p>\n

The COO<\/a> added: “Our frontline staff once again delivered an excellent service for almost two million customers who chose to travel with ScotRail.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly two million people took the train in the last week, with 328,000 using ScotRail on Friday.Around 70,000…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,104390,96580,4884,70660,25181,83049,712,23477,1263,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-349064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-edinburgh-fringe-festival","11":"tag-edinburgh-festival","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-murrayfield-stadium","14":"tag-oasis","15":"tag-oasis-reunion","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-scotrail","18":"tag-transport","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115038321872109284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}