Weather Disruption caused by storm Ciara (February 9th, 10th and 11th)

The stuck train at Piccadilly was a Class 319 if anyone is interested. Not sure on the number, but it still had the First livery seats inside.

Greenboy said:

Another trampoline on the track this time between West Croydon and Sutton. I wouldn't have thought it was too much to expect the owners of these things to ensure they are weighted down or folded up and put away during high winds.

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Weighted down I’ll agree with, but most Garden trampolines don’t ‘fold up’ (they’d be dangerous if they did!), and it can take a couple of hours to take them down. Having done so a few times while moving house, it is also strongly adviseable not to take one down when there is the slightest breath of wind.

Nevertheless, even when weighted down things will still move if the wind conditions are right.

Bald Rick said:

Nevertheless, even when weighted down things will still move if the wind conditions are right.

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Yes - ours was staked (metal J stakes with sledgehammer...) in 6 places, but it still took a trip along the garden after flipping itself upside down. With so much wet weather, the stakes just got torn out. Luckily we are at least a good 8 miles from a railway...

_toommm_ said:

The stuck train at Piccadilly was a Class 319 if anyone is interested. Not sure on the number, but it still had the First livery seats inside.

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Reported on another thread as being 319372

DanTrainMan185 said:

319372 was the affected unit.

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61653 HTAFC said:

Huddersfield was like a ghost town just now, so most people have decided to stay inside today. Just crossed over the Calder near Mirfield East junction and the river has burst it's banks, with the Dr. Reddy's chemical works bridge acting like a dam. The railway has gotten off lightly by comparison!

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Mirfield was a bit of a mess yesterday - Newgate was under quite a bit of water (the river water was overtopping the lock that is intended to keep the water level down in the navigation), Station Road was flooded (blocking access to the station completely, for all platforms I think) along with most of Lidl’s car park and Steanard Lane was also under water (along with the pub for the upteenth time of late) so Hopton was fairly well cut off

Attached photo shows Station Road yesterday afternoon

Newgate was clear later on today (Monday) at least, but the underpass on Station Road was still under a significant volume of water around 18:30 and the island was not accessible (platform 3 was accessible, but would have necessitated a detour to access from town) and Steanard Lane remains closed

The last floods in the area were Boxing Day 2015 - I think the water level was higher this time though

al78 said:

People should be made to think? You are asking a bit much there. This is the country where people faff around in checkout queues looking for their payment card when asked to pay, instead of doing that during the idle 10 minutes they were waiting in the queue beforehand. This is the country where people think they can engross themself in a smartphone and walk around a busy town centre without walking into people. This is the country where people walk into a shop and stop in the doorway, so that no-one else can get in or out. This is the country where dog walkers act like gas, they fill any space they are put in, so anyone approaching from behind has to walk at a snails pace because their dog has to sniff every square inch of the ground, and there is no space to overtake. The UK population by large doesn't do thinking.

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Amen, indeed - and Amen again!

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Mirfield was a bit of a mess yesterday - Newgate was under quite a bit of water (the river water was overtopping the lock that is intended to keep the water level down in the navigation), Station Road was flooded (blocking access to the station completely, for all platforms I think) along with most of Lidl’s car park and Steanard Lane was also under water (along with the pub for the upteenth time of late) so Hopton was fairly well cut off

Attached photo shows Station Road yesterday afternoon

Newgate was clear later on today (Monday) at least, but the underpass on Station Road was still under a significant volume of water around 18:30 and the island was not accessible (platform 3 was accessible, but would have necessitated a detour to access from town) and Steanard Lane remains closed

The last floods in the area were Boxing Day 2015 - I think the water level was higher this time though

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I very nearly moved into a house backing on to the river in Mirfield, was glad I didn't for the second time since then when I went past yesterday.

As I passed through on the 1449 departure from Huddersfield, the lane from Battyeford toll bridge up to Hopton (which crosses under the railway at the Mirfield end of Heaton Lodge junction) was basically a mountain stream. The area South-East of the line and station was a lake with a few trees sticking out- including the back road from Lower Hopton towards Ravensthorpe. The pub near the canal along that way was featured on Look North on Monday after being flooded.

On a day when Govia Thameslink Railway are expecting to run trains at 50mph, due to more sever weather, Network Rail are making urgent repairs to the tracks between Redhill and Gatwick Airport, owing to the earlier sever weather!

Due to urgent repairs to the railway between Redhill and Gatwick Airport fewer trains are able to run on some lines.
Train services running through these stations will be cancelled. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
Customer Advice
Southern Railway are conveying passengers via any reasonable route until further notice.

Here is an example service

11/02/20 07:04 Reading to Gatwick Airport due 08:51 will be terminated at Redhill.
It will no longer call at Gatwick Airport.
This is due to severe weather earlier.

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https://www.journeycheck.com/greatwesternrailway/
National Rail App havw a note at the top of the Redhill live departure board that says some Great Western Railway trains will not run between Redhill and Gatwick Airport. Customers can use Southern help with their journeys.

Of course during the day, bar evening peak, I didn't think any Southern services went to Gatwick Airport from Redhill. I know Thameslink do. I suspect they meant them. Even the disruption notice on GWR's journey check refers to Southern. I will query it with GWR twitter help and ask them to get it updated.

Some servers did start from Gatwick Airport and run right thought to Reading and the reverse too but none are planned to do so now until at least after 3.30pm/4pm. They will all terminate at Redhill.

I suppose it's sort-of relevant here, albeit it's the railways responding to disruption on the roads, but ScotRail are running extra unadvertised services from Fife to Edinburgh (and presumably back again tonight) because of the closure of the Queensferry Crossing.

That won't do much to help the "we're already using every available carriage" argument, but I would imagine that today's solution is something that's been scraped together rather than being long-term sustainable.

They are also coming in for flack on social media for not saying exactly when these trains are. But not advertising them makes perfect sense, even if the masses can't understand that.