For 5th and 6th November 2005 from websites and teletext. Main items of
interest are the Ashton - Denton - Stockport line, Winchburgh - Dalmeny and
Didcot west curve
SAT SUN Finsbury Park - Welwyn - Stevenage bus. Reduced trains diverted via
Hertford. Watton-at-Stone bus due to line capacity. # Royston
SUN Stevenage - Royston bus. # Royston. ROTR lists both fast lines closed,
so GNER on slow lines
SAT SUN Derby - Sheffield diverted via Toton (VXC only)
MML to Sheffield are the Nottingham trains. Those via Derby terminate at
Derby.
Not as current timetable. Derby - Matlock bus.
SUN Birmingham - Derby diverted via Leicester as timetabled, buses Tamworth
& Burton.
SAT SUN Rugby - Stafford blocked trains via West Midlands.
North services combined with Birmingham so less 'full' diversions using
Aston - Stechford - Bescot - Wednesfield - Bushbury.
SAT xx17 and xx53 ex Euston for example look good though. As timetable
except as next item
SUN Birmingham - Wolverhampton delayed, reported as via Aston. Unlikely
therefore that any VWC London - North run via New Street unless calling.
SUN Crewe - Chester bus. The few VWC through trains diverted via Sandbach -
Northwich
SAT Stockport - Manchester blocked Manchester - Airport / Hazel Grove /
Guide Bridge bus
Buxton - Stockport - Manchester Victoria service via Denton Jn
ATW run Crewe - Warrington - Manchester Oxford Rd
SUN Leeds - Liverpool diverted Huddersfield - Elland - Manchester Victoria -
Newton-le-Willows - Liverpool, as timetable.
Huddersfield - Marsden - Manchester bus
SUN Manchester - Warrington - Liverpool diverted via Newton-le Willows. Bus
Widnes/Warrington - Newton-le Willows.
CT not running through from Peterborough, change Nottingham
SUN Crewe - Liverpool VWC diverted via Manchester, local bus. As timetabled.
Teletext note of buses not supported by online timetables.
SAT SUN Crewe - Preston - Carlisle bus.
A few VXC divert via Settle using Clitheroe - Hellifield
SUN Preston - south via Manchester with drags for 390's, with Chorley bus,
via Wigan NW #
Buses also St Helens / Chorley- Preston, and Lancaster - Morecambe /
Carnforth / Windermere.
SAT SUN Bromsgrove - Droitwich / Gloucester block, Selly Oak - Redditch bus
SAT Birmingham - Worcester and VXC diverted via Kidderminster
SUN Birmingham - Gloucester / Newport bus. Gloucester - Cheltenham bus
2130 SAT - SUN Didcot area relief lines blocked from Moreton cutting.
Delays with Oxford trains diverted via Foxhall Jn (reverse and #)
SAT SUN Bath - Bristol blocked
1 per hour Padd - Bristol diverted via Badminton.
SAT additional hourly Paddington - Bath, SUN Swindon - Bath rail shuttle.
Westbury - Bristol / Swindon bus.
2300 SAT - SUN Cardiff - Bridgend via Vale of Glamorgan. Bus Bridgend -
Swansea. London services terminate Cardiff
SAT SUN Guildford - Reading / Aldershot bus. SUN Ascot - Farnham service,
not terminating Aldershot
VXC divert via Kensington
SAT SUN Haslemere / Chichester - Portsmouth bus. Trains from the west
diverted to Portsmouth Harbour.
SUN London Victoria slow lines blocked. Horsham trains diverted to London
Bridge
Battersea Park (#) - London Bridge service, not from Victoria
SUN St Johns slow lines blocked
Main line services run from Victoria via Bromley South
Hayes branch from Victoria via Nunhead
Local trains diverted using Tanners Hill - Lewisham Vale line to reach
lewisham from fast lines
SUN to 0950 Paddock Wood - Ashford bus, trains via Maidstone East.
SAT SUN Strood - Paddock Wood bus
SAT SUN Carlisle - Edinburgh / Glasgow and Motherwell - Lanark bus
VXC have a few through trains diverted via Kilmarnock
SUN Edinburgh - Bathgate bus, Edinburgh - west delayed. Diversion via
Dalmeny and Winchburgh Jn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Buses & Crossovers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
SUN Barking / Upminster - Grays bus
SUN Ipswich - Norwich / Bury St Edmunds bus
SAT SUN Bishops Stortford / Stansted - Cambridge bus. London - Stansted
direct bus
SUN Newark - Lincoln bus
SUN Doncaster - Scunthorpe bus
SAT from 1500 Pontefract Monkhill - Knottingley bus
SUN Middlesborough - Seaham bus
SUN Chesterfield bus, trains on slow lines, #.
SAT SUN Dalston Kingsland - Stratford bus.
SUN to 1200 Euston - Leighton Buzzard bus, VWC bus London - Milton Keynes.
2000 SAT - 1200 SUN no service Watford - Kensington. Then trains on fast
lines
SUN Manchester Vic - Stalybridge bus
SUN Sandhills - Southport bus
SUN Maidenhead - Reading 2 line operating, reduced timetable. All services
on relief lines. 0001 SUN - 0800 SUN SLW on up relief
2200 SAT - 1100 SUN Bristol - Weston-super-Mare bus
SUN Cardiff - Danescourt - Radyr bus
SUN Plymouth - St Austell bus.
MON - FRI Looe branch bus
SUN Staines - Windsor bus
SAT SUN Portsmouth area blocked. Trains terminate Fareham / Cosham,
Petersfield and Chichester (SAT) Bognor / Littlehampton (SUN). # possible
Fareham (bay) Cosham and Petersfield
SUN Sittingbourne - Faversham - Whitstable / Canterbury East bus. #
possible.
SUN Inverkeithing - Rosyth - Dunfermline QM bus
SAT - ONGOING Helmsdale - Wick / Scrabster via Thurso direct bus
SAT - ONGOING Helmsdale - Scotscalder via Forsinard and Thurso bus (check
the route, via Melvich !!!!)
SAT SUN Wood Green - Cockfosters bus
SAT SUN Rayners Lane - Uxbridge no Piccadilly line triains, Met operating
normally
SAT SUN Marble Arch - North Acton bus. # North Acton likely
SAT SUN Northen line not running south via city.
SAT SUN Northern does not call Elephant & Castle
ONGOING Heathrow T4 loop closed. Bus from Hatton Cross. # T123
interest are the Ashton - Denton - Stockport line, Winchburgh - Dalmeny and
Didcot west curve
SAT SUN Finsbury Park - Welwyn - Stevenage bus. Reduced trains diverted via
Hertford. Watton-at-Stone bus due to line capacity. # Royston
SUN Stevenage - Royston bus. # Royston. ROTR lists both fast lines closed,
so GNER on slow lines
SAT SUN Derby - Sheffield diverted via Toton (VXC only)
MML to Sheffield are the Nottingham trains. Those via Derby terminate at
Derby.
Not as current timetable. Derby - Matlock bus.
SUN Birmingham - Derby diverted via Leicester as timetabled, buses Tamworth
& Burton.
SAT SUN Rugby - Stafford blocked trains via West Midlands.
North services combined with Birmingham so less 'full' diversions using
Aston - Stechford - Bescot - Wednesfield - Bushbury.
SAT xx17 and xx53 ex Euston for example look good though. As timetable
except as next item
SUN Birmingham - Wolverhampton delayed, reported as via Aston. Unlikely
therefore that any VWC London - North run via New Street unless calling.
SUN Crewe - Chester bus. The few VWC through trains diverted via Sandbach -
Northwich
SAT Stockport - Manchester blocked Manchester - Airport / Hazel Grove /
Guide Bridge bus
Buxton - Stockport - Manchester Victoria service via Denton Jn
ATW run Crewe - Warrington - Manchester Oxford Rd
SUN Leeds - Liverpool diverted Huddersfield - Elland - Manchester Victoria -
Newton-le-Willows - Liverpool, as timetable.
Huddersfield - Marsden - Manchester bus
SUN Manchester - Warrington - Liverpool diverted via Newton-le Willows. Bus
Widnes/Warrington - Newton-le Willows.
CT not running through from Peterborough, change Nottingham
SUN Crewe - Liverpool VWC diverted via Manchester, local bus. As timetabled.
Teletext note of buses not supported by online timetables.
SAT SUN Crewe - Preston - Carlisle bus.
A few VXC divert via Settle using Clitheroe - Hellifield
SUN Preston - south via Manchester with drags for 390's, with Chorley bus,
via Wigan NW #
Buses also St Helens / Chorley- Preston, and Lancaster - Morecambe /
Carnforth / Windermere.
SAT SUN Bromsgrove - Droitwich / Gloucester block, Selly Oak - Redditch bus
SAT Birmingham - Worcester and VXC diverted via Kidderminster
SUN Birmingham - Gloucester / Newport bus. Gloucester - Cheltenham bus
2130 SAT - SUN Didcot area relief lines blocked from Moreton cutting.
Delays with Oxford trains diverted via Foxhall Jn (reverse and #)
SAT SUN Bath - Bristol blocked
1 per hour Padd - Bristol diverted via Badminton.
SAT additional hourly Paddington - Bath, SUN Swindon - Bath rail shuttle.
Westbury - Bristol / Swindon bus.
2300 SAT - SUN Cardiff - Bridgend via Vale of Glamorgan. Bus Bridgend -
Swansea. London services terminate Cardiff
SAT SUN Guildford - Reading / Aldershot bus. SUN Ascot - Farnham service,
not terminating Aldershot
VXC divert via Kensington
SAT SUN Haslemere / Chichester - Portsmouth bus. Trains from the west
diverted to Portsmouth Harbour.
SUN London Victoria slow lines blocked. Horsham trains diverted to London
Bridge
Battersea Park (#) - London Bridge service, not from Victoria
SUN St Johns slow lines blocked
Main line services run from Victoria via Bromley South
Hayes branch from Victoria via Nunhead
Local trains diverted using Tanners Hill - Lewisham Vale line to reach
lewisham from fast lines
SUN to 0950 Paddock Wood - Ashford bus, trains via Maidstone East.
SAT SUN Strood - Paddock Wood bus
SAT SUN Carlisle - Edinburgh / Glasgow and Motherwell - Lanark bus
VXC have a few through trains diverted via Kilmarnock
SUN Edinburgh - Bathgate bus, Edinburgh - west delayed. Diversion via
Dalmeny and Winchburgh Jn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Buses & Crossovers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
SUN Barking / Upminster - Grays bus
SUN Ipswich - Norwich / Bury St Edmunds bus
SAT SUN Bishops Stortford / Stansted - Cambridge bus. London - Stansted
direct bus
SUN Newark - Lincoln bus
SUN Doncaster - Scunthorpe bus
SAT from 1500 Pontefract Monkhill - Knottingley bus
SUN Middlesborough - Seaham bus
SUN Chesterfield bus, trains on slow lines, #.
SAT SUN Dalston Kingsland - Stratford bus.
SUN to 1200 Euston - Leighton Buzzard bus, VWC bus London - Milton Keynes.
2000 SAT - 1200 SUN no service Watford - Kensington. Then trains on fast
lines
SUN Manchester Vic - Stalybridge bus
SUN Sandhills - Southport bus
SUN Maidenhead - Reading 2 line operating, reduced timetable. All services
on relief lines. 0001 SUN - 0800 SUN SLW on up relief
2200 SAT - 1100 SUN Bristol - Weston-super-Mare bus
SUN Cardiff - Danescourt - Radyr bus
SUN Plymouth - St Austell bus.
MON - FRI Looe branch bus
SUN Staines - Windsor bus
SAT SUN Portsmouth area blocked. Trains terminate Fareham / Cosham,
Petersfield and Chichester (SAT) Bognor / Littlehampton (SUN). # possible
Fareham (bay) Cosham and Petersfield
SUN Sittingbourne - Faversham - Whitstable / Canterbury East bus. #
possible.
SUN Inverkeithing - Rosyth - Dunfermline QM bus
SAT - ONGOING Helmsdale - Wick / Scrabster via Thurso direct bus
SAT - ONGOING Helmsdale - Scotscalder via Forsinard and Thurso bus (check
the route, via Melvich !!!!)
SAT SUN Wood Green - Cockfosters bus
SAT SUN Rayners Lane - Uxbridge no Piccadilly line triains, Met operating
normally
SAT SUN Marble Arch - North Acton bus. # North Acton likely
SAT SUN Northen line not running south via city.
SAT SUN Northern does not call Elephant & Castle
ONGOING Heathrow T4 loop closed. Bus from Hatton Cross. # T123