Details still awaited after Aviemore Highland Line incident

British Transport Police are still to respond to requests for information regarding last night's disruption on the Highland Mail Line which followed an incident at Aviemore.

Last night a spokesperson said that media officers would be approached but the media is still awaiting authoritative information.

Last night ScotRail confirmed that "a person was hit by a train" around 7pm in the vicinity of the bridge on the ski road just behind Premier Inn.

Services both north to Inverness and south to Edinburgh and Glasgow were suspended, with travellers having to make alternative arrangements while bus services were brought in as back up.

At Aviemore the ski road was blocked for some four hours, with traffic having to divert for some miles in certain instances, as emergency services went about their work.

Police Highland could only refer press enquiries to British Transport Police.

One local taxi driver told the Strathy: "We were taking one family to the Coylumbridge Hotel from Aviemore but had to go miles out of the village to get to the hotel from the other side. There was a lot of disruption to the local transport system, quite apart from the trains."

The trains were running again by daylight but it was well into the morning before the timetable was approaching normal service.

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