A bunch of Lanarkshire schoolchildren have been left dissatisfied after a hearsay led them to consider they might see the magical Harry Potter practice go via their city as we speak.
Pupils from Holytown Main College and Nursery class turned up on the close by Holytown Practice Station on Tuesday morning to see the well-known 'Hogwarts Categorical' tear alongside the railway line on its option to the Scottish Highlands.
However as the kids patiently waited for a sight of the Jacobite steam practice, a tannoy announcement shattered their desires by saying the notorious movie practice was not passing via afterall.
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As a substitute, as cleared up on-line by Community Rail Scotland, it was only a common freight practice that was on route from the North of England.
However the announcement got here too late for the seven and eight-year-olds of Holytown who have been left "upset" by the information they might not be seeing the famend steam engine and carriages from their favorite movie.
In a Tweet to ScotRail a William Thomson posted: " @ScotRail there's quite a lot of upset faculty youngsters sitting at Holytown Station after listening to on a tannoy it isn't coming, any reality?, to which they responded asking, "Uncertain what you are referring to William? What service you're ready for?"
They then cleared up the matter by re-Tweeting to William that the entire thing had certainly been an unfounded hearsay.
Community Rail Scotland posted: "Out searching for a steam practice as we speak? We're afraid the hearsay going round is not true - the 'magic' service heading north from Blyth to Fort William is in actual fact an everyday scheduled freight service with a diesel locomotive."
ScotRail re-Tweeted the publish to keep away from additional disappointment and added: "If you understand anybody that was planning to move out for this, please allow them to know to avoid wasting any disappointment."
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