20/03/2016 Reporting Scotland

Major rail engineering works, which will disrupt services out

of Glasgow Queen Street for the next five months,

A tunnel used by Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Stirling services has

been closed to install new power lines.

They'll allow faster electric trains to operate between Glasgow

Passengers have been warned to expect delays,

but today the project got off to a smooth start.

This marquee is for passengers to wait to be led to and from

The trains will use this for the next 20 weeks. Only two platforms

are in use, instead of nine. This holding area is deemed

essential to prevent The last high-level train left this

platform around half past midnight. This morning, it is remarkably

quiet, but it is a Sunday. tomorrow on the Monday morning

commute. Do check, turn up a bit earlier,

give yourself more time, and give yourself more

time at the other end. Journeys will take longer,

trains will leave from other platforms than you will expect them

to and the message is to get on the website and find out

exactly what this means 4,000 metres of track will be laid

to replace existing one, New power lines will enable electric

trains run on the Glasgow to Edinburgh service

from the end of the year. Working 24 hours a day, engineers

hope to complete the upgrade by the end of August.

A teenage cyclist has died following a collision

It happened this morning on the road between Dallas and Kellas road.

The 16-year-old boy died at the scene.

And it was the Dundee Derby in the Premiership today.

Sportscene has all the weekend's highlights, so if you don't

want to know the score, look away now.

Huge Banksy-type paintings have appeared on buildings in Dumfries

It's part of a project to take to the countryside what's usually

They are more common on city tenement gables

But this is a barn at an animal factory in Dumfriesshire.

The rural murals are a result of the project to team international

street artists with other artists, like this fine art painter.

It's been challenging and you have to use your whole body to do these

it has been a real challenge, but exciting.

He has been working with renowned German street artists,

It's interesting to come to such a rural area in

And to see the difference and have this sort of exchange with the

artist with whom we are working. And it's incredible.

The idea is to highlight the spring fling arts and crafts weekend

being held across Dumfries and Galloway.

It's alfresco art, taking the open-studio concept

Here's the outlook for tonight and tomorrow.

It changed to more unsettled conditions comes later in the week.

We will start predominantly dry. Perhaps not as not sunshine as we

saw today. Some glorious shot sent in. A bit more cloud across the

North and it stayed that way tonight, bits and pieces of rain for

the aisles and north-west Highlands. Filtering down the coast and not a

terribly cold night. Temperatures for five. Into tomorrow,

predominantly dry. Not as much crisp sunshine as today. The best towards

Fife and Angus. In particular, the Northwest will have light and patchy

rain for the afternoon. Brisk winds around northern and western coasts.

Feeling pleasant at around 11 or 12 Celsius.

Our next update's at 6.25am tomorrow during Breakfast.

Until then, from everyone on the weekend team,

enjoy the rest of your Sunday evening.

Hello. There are some changes on the way later this week but through the

rest of the night we are chasing areas of cloud again. Temperatures

should recover in Scotland and Northern Ireland as include spills

in here but