Fallen tree closes major rail route into Scotland

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Tree on line between Motherwell and Lockerbie
Tree on line between Motherwell and Lockerbie // Credit: Avanti West Coast

UPDATE 08:00: Avanti West Coast is advising passengers to check their journey this morning due to the multiple incidents yesterday. Delays are expected until around 9 am. Click here for the latest info.


UPDATE 06:15: All lines have now reopened and disruption has now ended.


UPDATE 23:10: We are ending the coverage of the delays for tonight and will update this page when more information is released for travel tomorrow.

The latest information from Network Rail Scotland is that they plan to have the line reopen tonight, but no confirmation of the line being reopened has been released yet.


UPDATE 21:15: Network Rail are on site fixing the issue. No time confirmed for reopening yet. Please continue to check National Rail for travel updates.


UPDATE 16:45: Latest advice from and is to delay travel until 27th September.

Avanti West Coast says that no further rail replacement buses are available from Preston, Carlisle or Glasgow Central


Avanti West Coast is advising passengers not to travel north of Preston due to a tree falling on the overhead wires.

The incident has taken place between and which means that all lines are blocked.

Major disruption is due to continue until end of service today (26th September).

Avanti West Coast has ticket acceptance in place with LNER (between London Kings Cross and Edinburgh), TransPennine Express, ScotRail (between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh), CrossCountry (between Birmingham New Street and Edinburgh) and Northern (between Newcastle and Carlisle).

TransPennine Express has ticket acceptance with CrossCountry (Glasgow/Edinburgh – Leeds and then change to TPE services to Manchester), LNER (Edinburgh – York) and ScotRail (Glasgow – Edinburgh).

TPE also says that when the line reopens, passengers can use Avanti West Coast services between Glasgow / Edinburgh and Preston and then change to a Northern service to complete journeys.

The latest travel advice can be found on the National Rail website.

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