Glasgow railway line blocked after Storm Eowyn as roof lands on tracks

A roof torn off during Storm Eowyn has been found lying on a Glasgow railway line.

Network Rail sent up their own helicopter to assess the damage left behind after 100mph swept across the country. Their eye in the sky hovered about major routes on Saturday morning. As Glasgow Live reports, their air ops team uncovered the roof at the entrance to a tunnel to Glasgow Queen High Street High Level.

The chopper came across the destruction just 10 minutes after take-off. Network Rail Scotland published a second post on X/ Twitter that read: “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.”

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Other routes were examined on the survey of the wreckage on the railways, with the line from Hyndland to Helensburgh, and the Catchart Circle also checked. The air team discovered numerous fallen down trees affecting the line.

ScotRail previously said all of its services across Scotland would remain suspended until midday today at the earliest.

The weather subsided 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 across parts of Scotland until 3pm today, where gusts could reach 50-60mph inland, 60-70mph on exposed coasts and hills and possibly 70-80mph in the Northern Isles.

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.”

Ross Moran, Network Rail Scotland route director, said: “This storm has caused extensive damage across Scotland’s Railway bringing trees down onto the tracks and overhead powerlines and also damaging stations and other structures.

“Our teams are now working hard to assess the damage, inspect the railway and carry out vital repairs. With dozens of incidents across the country to respond to we will reintroduce services as quickly as possible for our customers.”

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