Helicopter crews deployed to inspect the railways after Storm Eowyn have found a roof on the tracks in Glasgow. Network Rail Scotland announced its Air Operations helicopter was about to lift off to inspect routes as winds subsided on Saturday morning.
About 10 minutes later it published a second post on X, formerly Twitter, that said: “The Air Ops team have already spotted a roof from a nearby building on the track at the entrance to the tunnel to Glasgow Queen Street High Level.
“Until this is removed, we can’t run trains to or from the station.”
Air Ops are aiding ground crews to check routes including Edinburgh to Glasgow Queen Street, Hyndland to Helensburgh, and Cathcart Circle. ScotRail previously said all of its services across Scotland would remain suspended until midday on Saturday at the earliest.
The weather eased slightly overnight but those carrying out recovery work in Scotland will still face some “fairly difficult” conditions, the Met Office said.
A yellow warning for strong winds is in place for much of Scotland until 3pm on Saturday, where gusts could reach 50-60mph inland, 60-70mph on exposed coasts and hills and possibly 70-80mph in the Northern Isles.
Saturday will be bright and sunny for large parts of the UK but a new weather front from the south west is set to bring wet and windy weather as the weekend continues, with a chance of local flooding.
Meteorologist Tom Morgan said: “The winds have still been strong nonetheless overnight, so it’s definitely not the calm after the storm today.
“It’s certainly a calmer day, but there is still going to be strong winds around, particularly across Scotland today, but for most of the UK, it’s certainly a much brighter and less windy picture, at least for most of Saturday.
“Thousands of homes (are) still without power this morning, thousands of trees came down onto power cables, and a lot of disruption to transport will continue, probably through the next few days, and I think that there’s still going to be some fairly difficult conditions for recovery operations.”
On Saturday morning Network Rail Scotland said nearly 400 “incidents of damage” have been found including more than 120 reports of fallen trees following Storm Eowyn.
Signalling systems, overhead wires, stations, boundary fencing, level crossings and train depots were also damaged, it added.
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