A Scots who boarded a sleeper train in Glasgow expecting to travel to London was left stunned when he woke to find the train didn't leave the station. Jim Metcalfe said he woke up in the wrong city after he and other Caledonian Sleeper passengers were left to snooze without knowing the train had been cancelled.
Mr Metcalfe, a charity chief executive based in East Renfrewshire, was due to travel to London for work on the Caledonian Sleeper service at 11.40pm on July 20. The 43-year-old uses the service occasionally throughout the year for business trips.
But he was left speechless when he was awakened in the morning by rail staff who told him the train hadn't moved all night. Staff later told him services had been cancelled due to tracks being impacted by the soaring temperatures.
