PEAK fares on Scotland’s railways are an “unfair tax” on workers and must be ditched, say transport unions and climate activists.

The Scottish government began a pilot scheme last year to test the removal of peak fares on ScotRail, but demands to make it permanent are growing ahead of the planned end of the scheme in June.

A joint letter from rail unions, Aslef, RMT, TSSA and Unite, Friends of the Earth Scotland, the Just Transition Partnership, Stop Climate Chaos Scotland and Transform Scotland and the STUC has demanded SNP transport secretary Fiona Hyslop scrap peak fares once and for all.