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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Jackie Grant

Lockerbie train passengers left stranded due to last minute cancellations

Train operators have been accused of treating rail passengers with disdain after commuters were left stranded in Lockerbie due to last minute cancellations.

TransPennine Express bosses blamed the blunders on a “shortage of available staff” due to Covid and seasonal sickness.

But South Scotland MSP and Scottish Labour’s Transport spokesman Colin Smyth, who was one of the travellers affected last week, said: “It seems it’s back to business as usual for TransPennine Express when it comes to treating Lockerbie passengers as second class.”

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