AYR to Glasgow Central trains have been cancelled due to "severe weather" warnings.

The Met Office recently issued a red warning, which is the highest category of alert, covering Glasgow, Edinburgh, much of the Lothians, the northeast Borders, as well as parts of Fife, Perth and Kinross, Forth Valley, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and Dunbartonshire. 

The red warning is expected to last from 3pm on Wednesday through to 10am on Thursday morning, with amber warnings continuing across much of Scotland throughout this period and into Thursday.

Chief Superintendent Stewart Carle, Head of Road Policing said: "The Met Office has now increased the weather warning to Red, the first time this has occurred for snow storms, and so we can't stress enough that all travel should be avoided unless it's essential being absolutely necessary and extremely important. Employers and public services need to carefully consider how that criteria meets their urgent business needs. 

"The warning covers the commuter periods both this evening and tomorrow morning, and so we would ask people to think very carefully about making alternative arrangements for these times and to consider whether they really need to make that journey, particularly on the road network which may become overwhelmed as people leave work early to beat the storm. We'd urge employers to be as flexible as possible in terms of their staff perhaps not being able being able to come to their normal places of work and to consider alternatives.

"As far as this afternoon is concerned, we'd ask people to think seriously about how they may be getting home either before or during the time of the Red warning as safely as possible."