We have had a series of rail re-openings in Scotland and the latest is the Airdrie - Bathgate. This line was closed in the Beeching cuts in the 1960's but the line was reopened from Edinburgh-Bathgate several years ago and the final bit from there to Airdrie will be opened in 2010 connecting it with the suburban electric network around Glasgow. However the rail Union is demanding conductors on the train to open and shut the doors. Strike action is contemplated even though the same Union has accepted one-man op from the driver elsewhere?! This would add an eventual 6 figure if not 7 on to the company's costs. The oddity is that the vast majority of the company's other suburban lines are one man operated via the driver doing the doors. Indeed 70% off First Scotrail is run this way by the same Union employees. In practical terms it would mean that trains on the Bathgate Line would have an extra man on board to "do" the doors and then on going on from Airdrie by electic just the driver??