PEOPLE were squeezing into the toilets on an East Lothian train this morning to make room as desperate passengers crammed onto the rush hour service.

A mother was warned to remove her baby from a buggy as people pushed their way onto the North Berwick to Edinburgh 7.17am ScotRail service as it reached Musselburgh.

One passenger who got on at Wallyford took this picture and said those already on the train were horrified by the scenes.

Sarah Hawkins, from Wallyford, told the Courier: "There were no staff to stop people trying to get in and it was dangerously overcrowded.

"At Musselburgh people were forcing their way in, creating a Hillsborough-style situation.

"People were telling a mother to take her baby out of his buggy for his own safety and people squeezed into the toilets to make space for a few extra passengers trying to get into work.

"Everyone was concerned about what would happen if there was an accident and asking why is this train not more frequent? Why are there so few carriages? With further new build developments planned, what are ScotRail and the council doing to handle this?"

ScotRail has come under repeated fire for the crush caused on the morning trains into Edinburgh with passengers dubbing it the "sardine express".

The train operators said major disruption in Glasgow on Monday along with overnight engineering works which had to be carried out had led to them being unable to get enough carriages in place for the start of the service.

A spokesperson said: "The safety of our customers and staff is always our top priority, we would never let a train depart if we believed it would be unsafe to do so.

"We understand customers’ frustration when services don’t have the right amount of carriages, and we do everything we can to prevent this."