Edinburgh tourists and locals who might be travelling back home on the west coast mainline for Hogmanay have been "abandoned" after flooding closed the line and railway bosses failed to arrange onward travel.
Avanti West Coast, which runs cross-country services on the line, announced on Saturday morning that it had cancelled services north of Carlisle due to a landslip at Carstairs caused by heavy downpours report the Record.
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