Snow Set To Make Way for Storm

Published 14th Jan 2015

Snow and wintry weather have caused travel disruption in some parts of Glasgow and the West.

The A9 was badly affected by snowfall at Stirling and a stretch of the M74 was forced to close to recover a crashed lorry.

Traffic Scotland said there was heavy snow at the Rest And Be Thankful in Argyll and Bute.

ScotRail said that no trains would operate from 6pm today until 6pm tomorrow on the Helensburgh to Dumbarton Central, Kilwinning to Largs/Ardrossan, Kyle to Dingwall and Glasgow to Fort William/Mallaig/Oban routes.

This evening buses will replace sleepers southbound from Fort William to Edinburgh while customers travelling northbound towards Fort William tomorrow morning will be transferred to buses at Kingussie.

Forecasters said that the wintry weather is set to continue into the weekend.

And last night a hardy bunch of mountain bikers from Stirling braved the blizzard to cycle up a 400 metre hill Dumyat.

Cyclist Elaine Hopley spoke to our Reporter Linda Sinclair about the experience.