Drivers have been trapped overnight on the A9 after a stretch of the road was hit by floodwater, snow and ice.
The vehicles were stranded north of Pitlochry, while a train was hit by a landslip at Dunning in Perthshire.
About 30 passengers, including a baby, were helped from the Aberdeen to Glasgow train at 23:30 and put onto another service. No one was hurt.
A large stretch of the A9 has been closed by flood water, with snow and ice six inches deep in parts.
Driver Jamie Duncan and a friend spent the night parked in a lay-by just outside Blair Atholl after getting stuck at 21:30.
He was trying to get back to Inverness to celebrate his 20th birthday.
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Jamie Duncan: "I haven't had any food all night. I've got water from my windscreen washer so haven't used that."
Speaking to BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, he said: "We've just tried to get back but we've been told that it will be four hours before we're actually allowed to go through.
"I haven't had any food all night. I've got water from my windscreen washer but we haven't used that.
"We've got nothing but our jackets, so we turn the car on every so often to heat up a little bit and keep us warm.
"We were talking to someone a few minutes ago who said that Traffic Scotland had said the road it would be open by 06.00.
"But we just went and asked the police officer and he said it will be four hours we'll have to wait, so I thought we'd go and get a sausage roll from Pitlochry."
Queues of traffic are waiting to use the A9.
Police said the road has been closed at Newtonmore and Ralia but no one has been stuck beyond the snow gates.
Stein Connolly, operator manager for Traffic Scotland, told Good Morning Scotland he hoped the A9 would reopen within the next couple of hours.
He said: "We've obviously experienced some challenging conditions through the night - we've experienced drifting snow and we're getting snow a metre deep there. We've had resources out all night trying to clear it and it's looking like a more positive picture just now.
"We're starting to move a couple of the heavy goods vehicles that have been sitting there and we've been putting extra resources into this area, trying to get this opened because we realise how important the A9 is to movement within Scotland."
'Challenging conditions'Mr Connolly added: "We are experiencing flooding in a number of places, there's a yellow warning for rain out this morning right up to 16:00 today. That combined with wind and then we're going into low temperatures, so there are challenging driving conditions out there.
"Our advice is plan your journey and make sure your route is available for your journey."
ScotRail said there are no trains on the Highland mainline, which includes trains from Inverness to Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Road conditions mean replacement transport is unavailable.
Network Rail spokesman Nick King said: "The main problem we're having this morning is on the mainline up to Inverness - problems between Perth and Inverness with snow and problems with signal equipment that had been affected by the build up of snow and ice.
"We have engineers out working to clear snow drifts, working to restore signalling systems and working to bring that line back into full operation.
"There are still some train services able to run on it, but at the moment there is no ScotRail service on it."
He added: "Elsewhere on the network, we should be seeing a fairly normal commuter service and weather conditions on the central belt and in the east are relatively normal for this time of year."
Rail routes cancelled on Wednesday will remain out of operation until 18:00.
Sporadic floodingThey include trains between Dingwall and Kyle; routes north to Oban, Mallaig and Fort William; trains from Glasgow between Dumbarton Central and Helensburgh and south of Kilwinning to Ardrossan and Largs.
Hundreds of homes in England and Wales were also left without power overnight.
About 700 homes were affected in Wales when high winds brought down power cables.
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Video shows flooding in Dumfries after the River Nith burst its banks in the town
Storms also left about 200 homes on the Surrey/Hampshire border without electricity.
There has been sporadic flooding across parts of central Scotland, affecting properties in Auchterarder, in Perthshire, with some householders receiving sandbags overnight.
A small number of houses in the Balfron and Kippen area of Stirlingshire have also been affected by flood water.
Heavy overnight rain resulted in the River Nith bursting its banks on the Whitesands in Dumfries.
The Met Office has yellow "be aware" severe weather warnings in place for many areas of the UK on Thursday.
It reported winds of 124mph on Aonach Mor in the Highlands at 09:00.
Schools closedGusts of 101mph were recorded in Great Dunsell, Cumbria, at 01:00.
Other exposed areas also recorded speeds in excess of 70mph.
There is a wind warning until 16:00 for southern Scotland, central lowlands and the east coast.
A yellow warning for rain has been issued until 16:00 for central and south west Scotland.
There is also a warning for ice for eastern Scotland until 10:00.
The Met Office also said flooding was possible in Tayside, west central Scotland and south-east England.
The bad weather has shut eight schools in the Highland Council area, with the closures affecting 1,033 children.
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