35018 British India Line at an Insane Carlisle 07 10 23

Описание: The Scottish West Highlands were expecting wild - dangerously wild - weather today. ScotRail however inflicted a serious speed restriction on ALL Scottish trains, even those running along the unaffected Solway Firth between Dumfries and Carlisle with a journey time extended by approximately 50%.
Avanti announced that none of their services would run north of Preston - although a few did seem to actually travel through to Glasgow - presumably very slowly. Trans-Pennine Express terminated their trains at Carlisle. Northern Rail tried to run a normal service on two of their three routes out of the Citadel. The third line features in this video.

The Midland Pullman was due to run from Slough to Fort William today as the first part of a three day trip - closure of the West Highland line meant the cancellation of the entire venture.
The Settle and Carlisle Circular ran from Loughborough to Appleby, returning via the London Road loop and Upperby yard, by-passing Carlisle station. All three specials were originally scheduled to be in Carlisle within a short period of time and I had hoped to film them from the air. Unfortunately, the wind (very audible at times in the video) made use of the drone impossible.