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Ryan Carroll

Travel chaos as power failure sees 'severe disruption' as trains cancelled across parts of Scotland

There's been travel chaos this morning after power failures cancelled trains across Scotland.

Due to damage to the overhead wires, no services are able to arrive at or depart from Glasgow Queen Street High Level at the moment.

It means the busy routes from Glasgow to Edinburgh as well as Stirling and Aberdeen are currently halted.

Services to and from Queen Street Low Level are not affected.

In a post on Twitter Scotrail said: "We're currently seeing severe disruption across the network, particularly in the Central Belt with disruption affecting services to/from Glasgow Queen Street High Level and Edinburgh Waverley. Please do check your journey before you leave the house using the ScotRail app."

Meanwhile a failure of the electricity supply to the overhead lines between Newton and Hamilton is causing further disruption.

Power has been restored, but two of the trains are stuck after developing faults following this trip.

Scotrail say they are working to get both moving as quickly as they can.

They said: "The power supply has failed again I'm afraid. If you're on a train in the affected area, we'll get you moving again as soon as we can. Network Rail's team are on the way."

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