{"id":350132,"date":"2026-01-03T15:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T15:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350132\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T15:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T15:22:11","slug":"travel-warnings-as-snow-and-ice-impact-northern-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/350132\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel warnings as snow and ice impact northern Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Network Rail said snow patrol locomotives had been running on the Highland Main Line, Aberdeen-Inverness and Far North Lines but said the weather and road conditions for its response teams were treacherous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And ScotRail said it had teams carrying out checks across the network, monitoring the snowfall depth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mark Ilderton, ScotRail&#8217;s service delivery director, told BBC Scotland News: &#8220;They will make sure we&#8217;ve got the most up-to-date information in our control centres and keep everyone safe and moving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Network Rail wrote on X: &#8220;We&#8217;ll likely see conditions worsen on all routes out of Inverness, where we could experience disruption due to deepening and drifting snow, coupled with the low temperatures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re unlikely to see much change on Sunday and Monday, with drifting snow in the north of Scotland and continued freezing temperatures and sharp frosts everywhere else. On Monday, we expect to see more widespread snowfall, spreading from the northwest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll continue to work hard to keep the railway running, with teams working around the clock despite the conditions out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Network Rail said snow patrol locomotives had been running on the Highland Main Line, Aberdeen-Inverness and Far North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-350132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}