Robertj21a
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The train companies have had at least 72hrs warning, no excuse...
So when did the train companies go out seeking buses/coaches ? 72 hours - 48 hours - 24 hours ??
The train companies have had at least 72hrs warning, no excuse...
Non existent round here! I can guarantee that the main road near me is flooded because of the drains that have been blocked for over 2 years, and I don’t even need to go out to check. I’m at the point where I’m considering clearing them myself.
So when did the train companies go out seeking buses/coaches ? 72 hours - 48 hours - 24 hours ??
As have passengers to make alternative arrangements, like travelling home yesterday instead of today, as I did. Admittedly by car, but I didn't want to be travelling through mid Wales in a storm.The train companies have had at least 72hrs warning, no excuse...
All services through Sutton suspended and the station is closed. Parts of a high rise being built next to the railway have come loose.
A tree on the line has also stopped all serves between Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Airport.
I've just been on national rail website, looking at Leeds to Carlisle (doesn't actually say S&C blocked, but must assume so). Despite the WCML being blocked north of Preston, main alternative suggested is going to Preston to catch an Avanti service. Wonder how that works?
A later alternative service shows as going via Middlesborough.
What you can accurately predict is the related discussion will descend into a petty argument, often by people who have very little information or experience. Can't people here just be polite and civil, rather than slagging off people with different views?
Unless you were in a desperate hurry, there's the tram! Although I've no idea what the service is like today to the airport.Yep, just got tipped of the 1H45 at Piccadilly P13.
Shared a black cab with four others for a £33 fare.
Check bugger went the long way via Stretford as well. I couldn't be bothered to have an argument
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The train companies have had at least 72hrs warning, no excuse...
Unless you were in a desperate hurry, there's the tram! Although I've no idea what the service is like today to the airport.
EDIT City - Airport is a "good" service, other parts of the metro are disrupted though.
So have the people who insisted on ignoring warnings.
Rail replacement busses can’t float through floods or fly over fallen trees.
Reports that the overhead wires are on fire in Kilsby Tunnel (south of Rugby)
Because on a Sunday most of them want to get home and have nowhere else to go! I think this sanctimonious attitude is wrong and unhelpful.
One assumes something on them. The wires themselves can't be on fire, they are metal with ceramic insulators.
And from my vantage point elsewhere in Lancashire the worst of the weather now appears to have passed (the met office forecast agrees). Obviously that doesn't help if there is actual flooding on the line between Preston and Lancaster, but it just looks like a fairly windy day now.
Guard on the northern service to Doncaster is giving advice for onward travel as part of ticket inspection, sterling job.
EUS-LIV and EUS-PRE services all suspended until further notice as a result of a Pendolino pulling the wires down.
Are there floods between the depots and the M6 though?Precisely where, pray tell, are the floods on the M6 between Preston and Lancaster?
Looking at Traksy, 1M52 York- Biringham ran via Tamworth & Kingsbury to Coleshill Parkway, is now starting as 1S45 1230 Birmingham - Dundee (good luck with that ) There may be a queue for the buses as only the 170s were planned to terminate there (Leicester/Cambridge/Stanstead & Nottingham). Presumably a single Voyager as Coleshill Parkway has 6x20m platforms according to Quail maps.Looks like a problem on Cross City North. 2P06 0927 Redditch - Lichfield Trent Valley arrived Sutton Coldfield at 1026 (on time) and it is still there. No other Cross City trains north of New Street. XC trains (Birmingham-York) which were diverted this way now appearing as cancelled between Birmingham on Burton on Trent, and vice versa.
Any idea where?
Well said mate. Far too many insulting replies creeping into these Forums. And imo, far too much moaning and complaining about everything on the railway!You can't accurately predict what damage a storm will cause, so we have to trust those with the most detailed information and professionally trained to make the best plans they can. What you can accurately predict is the related discussion will descend into a petty argument, often by people who have very little information or experience. Can't people here just be polite and civil, rather than slagging off people with different views?
Open train times maps shows 1A22 and 9G52 just south of WinsfordSouth of Winsford.
Lines have just opened now.Any ETA on when this will reopen as it seems a major job to fix?