Paisley rail staff have been praised after finding a therapy dog which plunged from a wall after being spooked by a train at Gilmour Street station.
Lucy the labrador crawled out of sight after falling from the railway embankment and was found 24 hours later "lying in a heap".
The dog had been fostered by a Paisley family and they were taking her by train to Ardrossan then to her new home on Arran.
Suddenly the two-year-old panicked and bolted across the railway tracks and disappeared.
She was badly hurt and is this morning awaiting an operation after a successful £5,000 online plea to pay for vet costs.
Station staff heard her barks for help and she was rescued last Wednesday.
Lee Herron, of Paisley, launched a GoFundMe appeal and by today has hit more than £5,700.
She said: "The train staff at Paisley Gilmour Street were incredible and stopped the trains when Lucy first ran, but nobody could find her.
"It was the following day, after no sightings, that the train staff heard a dog barking and guided her family to the location of the noise.
"Lucy was lying badly injured and unable to move."
"If the staff hadn't been alerted to her disappearance the day before, she may never have been found."
Initial treatment to a leg and hip has been carried out, but today she will go under the knife in an operation to pin her shattered limb.
Lucy - trained to warn of diabetic attacks - was being taken by the family to a relative on Arran.
Lee added: "One of Lucy's front legs is in a bad way, and initially the plan was to amputate, however, vets have now discovered her hip is also badly injured and they are now trying desperately to save her front leg with an operation to pin it.
"Lucy is only a young dog with her whole life ahead of her - she's already helped save the life of a little girl on many occasions while staying with her foster mum when she used to alert her to her having hypos for type 1 diabetes.
"We cannot thank people enough for helping."
Vet costs are estimated at £3,500 for the leg and £1,000 for the hip.
