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:
📹 @networkrail @nrairops colleagues captured footage of our Scotland’s Railway helicopter on task near Perth earlier. 🚁
Both aircraft flew to Perth before going their separate ways. One direct to Inverness via the Highland Main Line and the other via Aberdeen. Great work! pic.twitter.com/0882ErNJAO
— Network Rail Scotland (@NetworkRailSCOT) January 1, 2025
Teams working through Hogmanay into New Year’s Day have been dealing with three landslides between Inverness-Beauly, Brora-Helmsdale and Lairg-Rogart.
On the Far North Line, we’re dealing with 3 landslips, they’re between Inverness-Beauly, Brora-Helmsdale and Lairg-Rogart (📸).
We’re also dealing with flooding at Beauly which has closed the line. Work is ongoing, but it’s unlikely the line will reopen first thing tomorrow. /3 pic.twitter.com/PiMNZ1SuGM
— Network Rail Scotland (@NetworkRailSCOT) January 1, 2025
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.
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