Passengers are facing a travel nightmare today as rail services travelling up and down the west coast have been suspended.
Eight services between Glasgow Central and Carlise via Dumfries have been cancelled between the latter two stations after a tree was found to be caught on the overhead wires.
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Customers found themselves asked to leave the train at Gretna station, just two hours after their services departed from Glasgow Central.
I was on Dumfries to Carlisle but been sent of train at Gretna looking to get to Carlisle for 1230
— Gary adair (@Garyadair86) 12 June 2019
Replacement buses have been sourced between Dumfries and Carlisle, but some are not expected to arrive until around 1.45pm - over one hour after passengers were told to leave the train.
Disruption is set to last until around 2pm.
NEW: We have had a report of a tree caught on the overhead wires between Dumfries and Carlisle station. We're not able to run services through here until this has been cleared. Our overhead line team are responding and will arrive on site shortly. ^MF pic.twitter.com/n9aYUOKTNU
— ScotRail (@ScotRail) 12 June 2019
Signalling faults between Glasgow Central and London Euston also caused major delays this morning, with two busy services cancelled between the two stations.
The disruption comes just hours after users of the Caledonian Sleeper trains from London were met with a five-hour bus journey to Glasgow, after technical issues caused services to terminate early.
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We told you earlier how customers reacted with fury after learning of the news.
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