Vespa
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Travelling back from Newcastle through Manchester there is some rain no disruptions so far that I can see.
They’ve just said there’s a line side electrical fire near Camden which is further delaying us. We’ve been sitting here for 30mins now. The London Northwestern Train on platform 11 opposite is now a good hour late.
Currently waiting for a Tube (cancelled due to signal failure) to Farringdon. Looks like nothing has gone north there in over an hour?Thameslink services severely disrupted by the flooding at Belsize Tunnel. Lots of cancellations and plenty of delay for those trains still getting through.
No, there's been barely any rain in the Conwy Valley today.Was the area of the Conwy Valley line affected by any heavy rain today?
There are reports of an electrical fire in the Camden area, further delaying services in and out of Euston. Electricity to the overhead wires has been switched off.
Similar in East Hampshire close on 30mm in rolling 24 hrs to 20:00 today -15mm between 19:00 -19:35 this evening!We are just passing 30mm for the day as I write. The summer's global cyclical pattern has set up such that, for example, western USA and Canada are having exceptional heat, whereas east US is cooler, and that jet stream pattern continues across the Atlantic to give us, especially eastern UK, cool and wet conditions. As a gardener I appreciate it after the driest April on record (the only precipitation that fell in the whole month here was snow!).
It's not especially localised - there is heavy rain associated with a small low pressure and convergence zone over very large parts of southern England but, equally, some places have missed the showers, which is in the nature of showers.
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Yep. Having sat on a train for 15 mins at Farringdon and then over 30 mins at St Pancras, it was announced cancelled and booted off. Then the train was locked up, moved northbound to the end of Platform B... and has sat there ever since...Thameslink reporting on twitter that they are still unable to run trains heading north from St Pancras to St Albans/Bedford.
Yep. Having sat on a train for 15 mins at Farringdon and then over 30 mins at St Pancras, it was announced cancelled and booted off. Then the train was locked up, moved northbound to the end of Platform B... and has sat there ever since...
Yep. Having sat on a train for 15 mins at Farringdon and then over 30 mins at St Pancras, it was announced cancelled and booted off. Then the train was locked up, moved northbound to the end of Platform B... and has sat there ever since...
After a 10 minute wait in the tunnel outside St Pancras we just moved a little bit. Now stopped again at Kentish Town station. I'm on 9T58.Last train to reach Shepperton from Waterloo was at 17:03, all trains since have been/are terminating at Fulwell.
9T52 was the one everyone was kicked off from at St Pancras. Then there were 2 dark trains that passed through, then another Peterborough bi-di through Platform A, then the one I'm on.Was originally just the slows blocked, then there started to be problems on the fasts, from debris to track circuits failing, then the points at Carlton Road went, so without any way to cross from the core to the fasts meant it was job stopped for Thameslink. T52 hasn't passed Carlton Road Jn yet.
What happens to train crew in such circumstances? Would a Preston Avanti driver who’s stuck at Euston be put up in a hotel for the night - or be put in a taxi home?
Depends on the circumstances and the TOC, but most traincrew have a clause in their contracts requiring them to work a certain duration beyond their booked shift length in the event of disruption, as well as to help out as required.What happens to train crew in such circumstances? Would a Preston Avanti driver who’s stuck at Euston be put up in a hotel for the night - or be put in a taxi home?
I arrived at KX from Waverley around 21.50 last night To find the circle and H&C not working and massive problems with the Met due to flooding. Foot slogged it along a very wet Euston/Marylebone Road to Marylebone to get back to Princes Risborough. Chiltern had a shortage of train crews with multiple trains cancelled so I took a slow Wycombe train to get me almost home. 2 guys on that train were Avanti ‘refugees’ trying to get to Birmingham and not at all familiar with the Chiltern route. The B’ham train due out of Wycombe at 22.34 had been cancelled and with the help of the station security guard at Wycombe who phoned Chiltern he established that the next B’ham train was actually running at 23.02. I hope those guys got home, I took a cab from Wycombe to Risborough as I couldn’t be bothered to wait for the next train in.LNR have got ticket acceptance with Chiltern (Marylebone <-> Birmingham), East Midlands Railway (St. Pancras <-> Derby), CrossCountry (Birmingham <-> Leicester, Tamworth, Derby), Thameslink (St Pancras <-> Bedford)
Although it seemed to be organized somewhat slowly, they tweeted this 15 minutes ago and Avanti had acceptance with Chiltern and EMR just under an hour ago.
Blackpool had been great so far this year.Beautiful sunny weather? What part of the West are u in? Down Plymouth we had a couple of good weeks in June and that's it. Loads of rain past few days, roads all flooded and the line was shut last week too at Plympton.
As of Friday, it seems that the Euston to Watford DC service is still out action south of South Kenton.
Does this result from the substation fire?
That’s not a substation on fire but looks more like a dc hook isolation switchAs of Friday, it seems that the Euston to Watford DC service is still out action south of South Kenton.
Does this result from the substation fire?