Snow closes Highland Mainline

[DaveNewcastle]

The Mainline between Perth and Inverness has been closed all day today (Friday) and will remain closed tomorrow. Until the weather improves - and there's worse forecast for all of us on Sunday.
There's delays on the Aberdeen line too, and the rail replacement busses are running subject to the road remaining open - which it hasn't been this afternoon.
What a long winter, eh?

 

[First class]

Sleeper showing as running as normal to Inverness via Perth and Aviemore...

It's just left Crewe and is expected to Arrive on Platform 2 at Inverness on time. The data feed is from TRUST.

The Southbound sleeper left via it's normal route down the Highland Mainline, but an hour late leaving Inverness.

 

[A60K]

Interesting - on the public LDB the northbound is shown as 'no report' at Haymarket, and the southbound is shown as cancelled after Aviemore. There do seem to be some trains between Inverness and Aviemore and between Blair Atholl and Perth according to the LDB, but NRE still states the line closed between Inverness and Perth.
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Small update: there appears to have been some sort of failure of a snowplough around Dalwhinnie, and the line is now blocked by that as well as the snow.

 

[First ScotRail]

According to scot-rail.co.uk 2 37s derailed on snowplough duties last night at dalwhinnie. Sleeper caped at Kingussie.

 

[mrcheek]

I was supposed to be heading up to Inverness for the start of a 2 week ALR on monday.

Im not taking any chances. Ive switched my hotel booking to a week later, and Ill stick to England for the first week.

Of course, if theres a load more snow in Scotland by next week, Ill end up looking stupid...

 

[First class]

Strangely enough, some of the Southbound sleeper looks like it terminated at at the Scottish border.

It departed Edinburgh 0153, passed Lockerbie at 0301. The last monitoring point before it all shows cancelled was Gretna Junction at 0313.