Having a quick look at the live departures from St. Pancras, it looks like there’s zero Thameslink and East Midlands Railway services running from here.
OTT maps and Traksy are accurate. I'm on 9T22 to Bedford (currently approaching St Albans) and we haven't passed anything in the other direction since London Bridge!
Whether that has been forecast for several days yet there isn’t a contingency in place….just telling people to book hotels is a cop out as not everyone has access to funds to do that. What if you’re stuck at a station that doesn’t have a hotel nearby?
That one was indeed cancelled, as was reported upthread by @londonmidland in post #10. Flooding at Sanquhar?
Given the ‘company’ is OLR, what would you suggest they are replaced by?
Bring back Virgin IMO.
That's good, hopefully more TOCs can follow.
When I’ve looked at domestic travel insurance, there’s frequently an exclusion that it only covers trips where you stay in paid for accommodation. So a trip to stay with family as would be common at this time might not be covered even if you had insurance.
Who said the company needed replacing? A management team focussed on delivering the day job of getting people from A to B would be a start. Too must attention is wasted on peripheral ‘social’ issues.
You said the company wasn’t fit for purpose, which pretty much implies there should be something else.
I've had reason to stay in a hotel on a Friday night after trying to get home from normal work. Should I buy insurance for commuting to and from work just in case?
Can you actually buy insurance that covers you for that particular risk (of having to stay in a hotel when you can't travel home after a failure of the rail service)? Surely it should be the railway that stumps up for the cost of such emergency overnight accommodation if it can't get you home?
That's too prescriptive, it might well be your view but it's not mine. Insurance, primarily, is to satisfy a legal requirement or to cover a potential cost which might be impossible otherwise. So I don't have building contents insurance, I view it as a waste of money. I don't buy travel insurance even for foreign travel automatically, but I currently have an all-world annual policy in place because I went to Japan and the USA earlier this year, and it has exclusions for medical cover for UK-only trips but not for other things such as travel delay. Which is good because I hope to be going to Edinburgh by train in a couple of weeks.
This is just a wildly impractical suggestion for UK travel.
The line is closed between Cupar and Leuchars because of heavy flooding with no estimated time for reopening.
100% agree
Their complete abandonment of the line north of Preston at the drop of a hat is appalling. Happens far too often.
I am watching Heathrow as we speaking and it's non stop take offs and landings
From where? Plenty taking off and landing at Edinburgh, Glasgow (including an A380!), Manchester, Heathrow, Gatwick - there’s no flight suspension.
It's not just Carlisle. Avanti wash their hands of Lancaster, the Lakes Line and Penrith.
