Due to an incident in the early hours of Mon 16th Nov 1998 involving the 1S25, 21:30 London Euston - Inverness/Aberdeen/Fort William hitting two stolen vans placed on the main line immediately to the east of Slateford station, all services in & out of Edinburgh which use this line through Slateford were subject to delay, cancellation or re-routing. As the incident took place immediately after the Junction for the 'Freight only' Edinburgh Suburban lines, certain passenger service were diverted via this line in & out of Waverley. One such service to do so was the 1E09, 10:00 Glasgow Central - London KX GNER service which was dragged past Meggatland, on the Craiglockhart Jct - Slateford part of the Edinburgh sub line, by 47635 with 91024 dead at the rear of the train.

Photo and Scan: Ross Aitken (aos@cableinet.co.uk)