Rail chaos for travellers to, from and within the Highlands as all Inverness services hit by flooding and landslides
Landslides and flooding are causing chaos for train travellers journeying to, from and within the Highlands.
The Far North Line between Inverness and Wick/Thurso will remain closed all day after flooding at Beauly and three separate landslips along the route.
Scotrail’s Highland Mainline services between Inverness and Edinburgh/Glasgow will also be severely disrupted as Network Rail carries out inspections following extensive flooding at Dalguise and Kingussie.
All services between Inverness and the central belt will either start or terminate in Perth.
Not all services will have rail replacement bus services in operation, but this morning’s LNER Inverness to Edinburgh 07:20 service is among those that does.
All travellers are being advised to check their journeys using Scotrail’s website or the National Rail Enquiries journey planner.
Network Rail’s Scotland’s Railway helicopter has been heavily-involved in monitoring serious issues across the Scottish rail network:
Teams working through Hogmanay into New Year’s Day have been dealing with three landslides between Inverness-Beauly, Brora-Helmsdale and Lairg-Rogart.
The Met Office has downgraded the recent amber weather warning to yellow, but says the north of Scotland will beat the brunt of snowy and icy conditions today.
