A tanker carrying propane gas has caught fire, shutting the M56 motorway near Manchester, with trains and air travel also affected.
Firefighters are tackling the lorry fire, which started just before 15:00 BST between junctions 12 and 15.
Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service is attending the blaze on the westbound carriageway near Stanlow and Frodsham.
A cordon has been set up and motorists are being evacuated from their vehicles and moved to a safe distance.
On the M56. A couple of ATW Manchesters via Northwich
They are redirecting aircraft as well, plumes of fire about 10ft high.
15:50 Manchester-Chester was sent that way. 16:50, 17:19 and 17:50 currently advertised as turning around at Warrington Bank Quay.
I always thought that there was a charter company that started somewhere on that line and one of there tours they used 67. So they can work the line it will properly be more of whether the crew sign the route.The loco hauled set reached Manchester on the normal route from Holyhead, but the return 1650 Llandudno service seems to have been cancelled at Piccadilly.
Maybe it's not cleared via Northwich.
The loco hauled set reached Manchester on the normal route from Holyhead, but the return 1650 Llandudno service seems to have been cancelled at Piccadilly.
Maybe it's not cleared via Northwich.
The loco hauled set reached Manchester on the normal route from Holyhead, but the return 1650 Llandudno service seems to have been cancelled at Piccadilly.
Maybe it's not cleared via Northwich.
The loco hauled ran to warrington & then went empty to crewe, also northern have a unit stuck at ellesmere port due to this incident, I live not to far from this area & ive never seen traffic as bad as it is tonight, hope everyone stuck gets moving soon
but the return 1650 Llandudno service seems to have been cancelled at Piccadilly.
Maybe it's not cleared via Northwich.
also northern have a unit stuck at ellesmere port due to this incident
67s are cleared through Northwich due to them being cleared for freight services. It's much more likely ATW were refused permission to run it from Piccadilly to Stockport. (Northern can't get a path to start the 16:58 Stockport-Chester back at Piccadilly.)
Crewed by a Llandudno Junction crew, they dont sign the Cheshire lines only Chester men do.
Near Manchester!!!!!!!! Obviously they have no geography knowledge! :roll:
I saw that on the BBC website earlier and I thought that particular junction was near Liverpool not Manchester!
They are really useless.
I did wonder if, had the disruption continued for much longer, they would have found a Merseyrail route conductor and sent the unit via Hooton to Chester.
Cheshire folk complain bitterly that the county "doesn't exist" at the BBC.
There is no local BBC city or county radio channel.
The BBC chooses to lump Cheshire in with either Manchester or Liverpool (or even with Stoke in the south).
The M6 is roughly the media border.
Well the move to Media City doesn't seem to have helped any!
I can understand with something like this going on signposting the nearest big city, but to get the location of this so badly wrong it really does make you wonder, it must have massively affected the Liverpool area directly, assuming it's not still doing so, not to mention all the traffic heading in and out of Wales through Chester.
Probably not this, but more likely
Well the move to Media City doesn't seem to have helped any!
If you refer to earlier posts correcting incorrect info, it would have been a Holyhead Driver. I should imagine ATW would have arranged a Route Conductor, probably from a Freight Company. Route knowledge was the reason the 17 50 couldn't have been diverted via CLC to answer an earlier question.