RAILSCOT | Network rail working to clear Highland main rail line [Strathspey and Badenoch Herald]

Network rail working to clear Highland main rail line [Strathspey and Badenoch Herald]

Date: 04/02/2021

The Highland main rail line is currently closed at Dalwhinnie because it is blocked by drifting snow.

Customers are being advised to postpone their journey if they can and there are no coaches services running from Badenoch and Strathspey or Inverness.

Network Rail has said it is trying to secure a locomotive to clear the snowdrifts on the route between Drummochter and Inverness.

The view from the rear of our first patrol locomotive, ploughing through snow at Slochd on the Highland Mainline a few minutes ago. pic.twitter.com/6OwQQP2N7R
Network Rail Scotland (@NetworkRailSCOT) February 4, 2021

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Network rail working to clear Highland main rail line

Strathspey and Badenoch Herald

Line is blocked in the Dalwhinnie area because of substantial snowdrifts

Highland railway line blocked by deep snow

Ross-shire Journal

DEEP drifting snow has forced the closure of the Highland mainline, Network Rail Scotland has warned.

Related images

A northbound train passing a southbound train at Dalwhinnie.
Location: Dalwhinnie
Company: Inverness and Perth Junction Railway
// Ewan Crawford

Dalwhinnie station's south end in early 1995. The snow revealed a surprising number of footprints across the track between the platforms.
See query 2208
Location: Dalwhinnie
Company: Inverness and Perth Junction Railway
//1995 Ewan Crawford

Dalwhinnie looking north.
Location: Dalwhinnie
Company: Inverness and Perth Junction Railway
// John Gray

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Network rail working to clear Highland main rail line [Strathspey and Badenoch Herald]

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