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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.
This ScotRail photo at Dalmarnock is pretty worrying. Water should not be seeping through a retaining wall. The works done to the station for the Commonwealth Games didn't really address the long term issues there.
A moment to think of the grief caused by those living on the proposed route of HS2 and lost their properties and those that have worked on it and now have an uncertain future. All for nothing. Not even a deferred project. So much money wasted.