Landslip between Falkirk and Perth

[kylemore]

I'm no expert at these kind of things but from the pictures "Landslide" doesn't describe what I appear to see. "Lack of Drainage" appears to be what I am seeing to my admittedly amateur/inexpert eye.
Maybe I'm completely wrong on this but "Landslide" tends to make one think of unavoidable "acts of God" for which nobody is to blame and "Lack of Drainage" tends to make one think of negligence.

 

[Red Dragon]

It becomes a rather different matter if the split is Inverness - Stirling, Stirling - Glasgow, as that really is a different kettle of fish altogether. In that case you'd be off the Chieftain by Stirling anyway so it would seem sensible to alight at Perth instead, rather than end up going in the opposite direction.

My split was Inverness - Stirling (ADV 1st), Stirling - Glasgow (Anytime 1st), and Glasgow - Ilkley (ADV STD).
Before I left the train at Stirling I showed the lady guard on the Chieftain my splits and asked what would have happened if we had been diverted at Perth, missed out Stirling and gone over the Forth to EDB. She said she would simply have endorsed my ticket and I would have travelled via EDB to Glasgow and home via Settle Carlisle (via APP).
There would not have been a problem - it was not my fault. I had tickets which would, under normal circumstances, have taken me from Inverness to Ilkley.
She was very straightforward, quite pragmatic, and was a breath of fresh air !