A major rail route has reopened after a lorry struck the east coast mainline in East Lothian on Thursday.
The lorry left the road and crashed into a wall before landing on the railway at Haddington Road in Wallyford at around 1.30pm.
A crane was brought in to remove the lorry from the tracks and crews worked through the night to restore services, but Network Rail announced the track was still closed early on Friday morning.
It later reopened just after 11am.
London North Eastern Railway (LNER) had previously warned passengers travelling between Edinburgh and Newcastle not to travel.
Network Rail said on Friday morning they were making “good progress” on repairs and that reopening was “imminent” after the lorry strike destroyed a signalling cabinet.
07:30 Update on Wallyford. Good progress on repairs overnight, but unfortunately the East Coast Mainline between Edinburgh and Berwick-upon-Tweed hasn't reopened though it's imminent. Repairs ongoing to the signalling system, following the HGV destroying a lineside cabinet /1 pic.twitter.com/qTboNnE67b
— Network Rail Scotland (@NetworkRailSCOT) June 24, 2022
A 41-year-old man was taken to hospital with serious injuries and Police Scotland have appealed for any witnesses to come forward.
Sergeant Ross Drummond, of Lothian and Scottish Borders Road Policing Unit, said: “Our investigation to establish the full circumstances surrounding this incident are ongoing.
“If you were in the area at the time, please think back and get in touch with us if you have any information which may be able to assist our investigation.
“We are also keen to speak to motorists who may have dash-cam footage of the incident.
“I’d ask anyone with any information to contact Police Scotland via 101 quoting reference number 1714 of Thursday June 23 2022.”
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here