Diversions included West Coast Main Line trains being diverted via the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway and Whifflet with electric trains hauled by diesel locomotives to Mossend Yard, East Coast Main Line trains terminating at Edinburgh Waverley, and Lanark and Motherwell trains being diverted along the North Clyde Line via the Whifflet link line immediately west of Coatbridge Sunnyside.
West Coast Main Line trains were rerouted via the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway and Whifflet with electric trains pulled by diesel locomotives to Mossend Yard, East Coast Main Line trains ended at Edinburgh Waverley, and Lanark and Motherwell trains were diverted along the North Clyde Line via the Whifflet link line immediately west of Coatbridge Sunnyside.