BRITAIN’S biggest railway union has attacked a new Virgin Trains app that helps passengers when trains are cancelled and delayed as a “scam” to push through more cuts.

RMT general secretary Mick Cash criticised Virgin’s Back on Track app as a sign of another failure of railway privatisation and a way to cut staff.

The app aims to give passengers information about alternative routes when there are problems on services by connecting rail staff with control centres to provide up-to-the-minute details on train routes.