[charlieegan3]

This is actually surprising common in the anecdotal experience of myself and my family. (Common that the train never leaves the origin station, though once my mother slept all night in Euston!)

The rolling stock is pretty modern, but the locomotives appear to be quite unreliable. Finding a replacement at short notice is tricky. I’ve been a handful of services where this happened.

The sleeper is generally unreliable in addition to the locomotive situation. The highlander services travel almost the entire length of the country making chances of running into a local issue in an ageing and underfunded rail network quite common.

Usually this means you are woken in the small hours and put on the first ‘day time’ alternative.