Sorry, this doesn't directly answer your question, but my parents-in-law were travelling from Preston to Penzance on the afternoon prior to the Lockerbie disaster, on the then through train from Glasgow. The train was due to arrive about 22.40, from memory, and was on time. Please remember these were pre-internet days, and pre- mobile phones for 99.9% of the population. I watched the 9 o'clock BBC News and it was reported that there had been some sort of disaster in the Lockerbie area, with many people dead and houses destroyed, and the suggestion that an aircraft had crashed but, at that stage, details were very sketchy, and would remain so for several hours at least. When my wife and I went down to Penzance station to await the arrival of the train, we went on to Platform 1 and as the train crept slowly along towards the buffers I noticed each coach carried the full itinerary of the journey on the side, and the name Lockerbie leapt out at me. My parents-in-law, in common with everyone else on that train bar (possibly) the crew, were entirely unaware that anything had occurred at Lockerbie that evening.
