Short notice Scotrail cancellations

[Deltic1961]

Went in to Aberdeen at lunch time and all services running as normal. Now all local services between Aberdeen and Inverurie and Montrose are cancelled until 8pm leaving huge gaps and lots of people with no trains.

The weather situation has been known about for a couple of days, so why wait until people have already gone to school, uni or work to pull loads of services.

On the 15:25 Aberdeen to Inverness service and its badly overcrowded. They haven't thought this though. Cancel multiple trains then put on a 2 car 158.

Far more short notice cancelled trains since Abellio left.

 

[800001]

My question would be if the weather situation has been known about, why have those people gone to work, school etc? And yes I knows it’s very easy to say that, but people also need to take personal responsibility.

Has there been an incident on the line? Is it blocked? Is the weather worse that’s forecast? Are the crew able to get to work by road to drive the services? Etc

 

[XAM2175]

ScotRail are currently saying that the delays and cancellations are due to "a speed restriction because of severe weather".

 

[800001]

Blanket 40mph between Aberdeen and Dundee.

 

[Deltic1961]

I understand speed restrictions, but cancelling 4 services in a row is not that.

And it's raining and a bit windy. Certainly nowhere near severe. A yellow warning.

The 17:25 Aberdeen to Inverness will be an absolute joke and I bet many won't be able to get on and have to wait another hour. Guess that depends if it's a HST or not.

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Although the weather warning was until 20:00 they've cancelled all local services until the end of the day so my son's last train home isn't running and he can't get home from work.

They really don't care at all.