But staff from a Glasgow school had to order their own coach to take 50 pupils home as they were too young to travel in taxis without an adult.
He wrote:"It turned out there were no more trains 'North' after that and, excitingly, no forthcoming information. "All of us queued to be taken away 3-7 people at a time. And if that sounds slow and ridiculous, it was." Staff from Greenfaulds High School found their own coach after being told they were"effectively stuck" at Preston station with no way to get their pupils home from a trip to London.