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Let's wait and see what the damage is. What I've seen so far includes 10 trees down in the Gartcosh area, a fence hanging over the railway at Glasgow Queen St low level and damaged wires at East Linton. And that's before route proving.
I'm afraid I can't help regarding the hotel but Network Rail Scotland have imposed a 40mph speed restriction between the border and Innerwick (near Dunbar). This won't help service recovery.
Even if Avanti terminated everything at Preston to keep to diagrams a d schedules, but then ran a shuttle service to / from Carlisle. Yes, they might need to move a set from Polmadie, but it's far better than what they did.