UK Storms

[Class172]

This weekends 'no hype' storm seems to be much stronger than last weeks storm which was poor in comparison. The wind is really picking up here.

 

[Lrd]

This weekends 'no hype' storm seems to be much stronger than last weeks storm which was poor in comparison. The wind is really picking up here.

You still on the Island? We had a couple of rocky crossings earlier with the wind picking up. I'm looking forward to being on the first boat out in the morning, should be interesting.

EDIT: I'm getting my users confused here.

 

[Sleepy]

Greater Anglia are looking to suspend early morning rural routes from Norwich Sunday, due to high winds forecast which may bring down weak trees.

 

[Trainfan344]

Got high winds and rain, looks like the storms a week late.

 

[Chouette]

Advised not to travel on all Valley lines, unfortunately this was after I set out for the big fireworks display in Cardiff. Wish I'd had the foresight to bring a sleeping bag...

 

[Sleepy]

Greater Anglia are looking to suspend early morning rural routes from Norwich Sunday, due to high winds forecast which may bring down weak trees.

It seems the Twitter guys have not been informed of this however !

 

[jon0844]

Beeching was employed by the CIA as the assassin on the grassy knoll after they discovered his cold-blooded nature after experimenting on him at Roswell. Oh, he also killed Princess Di.

You really must stop reading the Daily Express!

 

[Darren R]

The sea-wall stretch at Dawlish has been mentioned once too often on this thread! From NRE:

Poor weather conditions are causing disruption between Totnes and Newton Abbot. Because of this, trains between Plymouth and Newton Abbot may be delayed by up to 60 minutes. These delays will continue until further notice.

 

[yorksrob]

Got delayed by a fallen tree between Liverpool and Manchester tonight, so a bit on the breezy side. Got back though so can‘t complain.

 

[infobleep]

The storms are not going to be added bad as Monday because no one is reporting widespread emergency train timetables.

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[infobleep]

The fireworks in Woking were cancelled tonight due to wind but the ones at Brockham, near Dorking were not. Must be more open in the fields were the Brockham fireworks are let off.

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[Rich McLean]

The sea-wall stretch at Dawlish has been mentioned once too often on this thread! From NRE:

1E73 (17:24 Plymouth - Leeds XC HST) slipped to a stand up Dainton bank and cancelled there. Passengers dropped off at Plymouth (no Totnes stop) for next service North

Set XC02 now sat at Laira. Voyager vice HST from Leeds to Plymouth tomorrow morning (1V48). What happens then to the 14:24 Plymouth - Edinburgh all rides on if the wheel sets and Traction Motors are serviceable. I assume if the set needs Tyre turning etc, it will stay at Laira until the end of the week or a voyager is ran vice HST to Plymouth, where the HST can work the return (with a voyager coupling onto the next service).

 

[455driver]

Thats 2 XC HSTs that have failed to top the bank recently (the 1724 didnt make Hemerdon last week) so why are they struggling with their 2+7s but FGW are managing with their 2+8s?

 

[Rich McLean]

Thats 2 XC HSTs that have failed to top the bank recently (the 1724 didnt make Hemerdon last week) so why are they struggling with their 2+7s but FGW are managing with their 2+8s?

Notches taped out on the power cars I assume

Saying that, 1A92 also slipped to a stand on Hemerdon Bank, but that was due in part to 43170 not being in good health

 

[455driver]

FGW have really struggled down there but nearly everything has managed to get through, just very late.

 

[Bedpan]

The fireworks in Woking were cancelled tonight due to wind but the ones at Brockham, near Dorking were not. Must be more open in the fields were the Brockham fireworks are let off.

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Brockham bonfire and fireworks are on the village green, surrounded by buildings. Its quite a spectacle, probably the biggest bnfire event in the south east after Lewes,so I don't think that they'd cancel/postpone it lightly.

 

[Crossover]

I was at Manchester Piccadilly earlier this evening and it was rather windy with the occasional driving rain too. Similar when I got home too.

I doubt it will cause too many issues (apart from blowing all the leaves off the trees into our garden ) but it isn't ideal to be out and about in

 

[jon0844]

The storms are not going to be added bad as Monday because no one is reporting widespread emergency train timetables.

Or that it isn't really going to hit London hard and so the media aren't quite as interested, especially as the last one wasn't up to October 1987 standards!

That said, I'm just north of London and there have been some pretty mighty gusts of wind this evening and when my dad was driving me earlier, a bit of tree fell down in the road on the opposite side. Not enough to have injured us if it hit us, but probably would have done some damage to the bodywork.

 

[yorksrob]

Alternatively, Beeching improved the environmental efficiency of the country by replacing coal hungry steam engines that hauled a few coaches with even fewer people on or stood idle most of the day with much more efficient buses. Then the closed lines returned to nature and lots of trees grew up on the old trackbed. These trees hoovered up lots of CO2, reducing the greenhouse effect.

So rather than Beeching causing the storm, he actually made it less intense than it would have been!

well, of course, had passengers stuck to, and embraced those bus services, you might have had a point. However, as we all know, these tended not to last and people went back to their gas guzzlers.

Interestingly, most of those routes that shouldn't have been closed had already had their kettles replaced by more efficient diesels, so all Beeching would have had to have done to boost his green credentials would have been to find a way to keep them going (the work of Gerry Fiennes on the East Suffolk line springs to mind). These would of course come with our traditional verdant track side vegetation, whose inaccessibility would have provided an excellent habitat for for a wide range of interesting creepy-crawlies and would have bolstered our bio-diversity as well, rather than being built over for by-passes and industrial estates

 

[jopsuk]

this isn't as much of a news story as it has been nowhere near as windy. Monday's storm had gusts of 99mph on the Isle of Wight, over 85mph across large swathes of southern England. Can't find any Met Office reported gusts of over 68mph last night. That's significantly less windy.

 

[infobleep]

If the trains can't get up the bank, do we need banking engines to help it us that more expensive than services being delayed or cancelled?

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[tsr]

Brockham bonfire and fireworks are on the village green, surrounded by buildings. Its quite a spectacle, probably the biggest bnfire event in the south east after Lewes,so I don't think that they'd cancel/postpone it lightly.

I understand it was slightly retimed, and I was able to tell (from some miles away) that they were going a bit slower than usual with the release of some of the explosives! Presumably that may have been to allow continuous assessments of the wind and what effect it was having. It was pretty windy but nothing too far out of the ordinary for the general area of the North Downs in autumn/winter.

 

[D1009]

1E73 (17:24 Plymouth - Leeds XC HST) slipped to a stand up Dainton bank and cancelled there. Passengers dropped off at Plymouth (no Totnes stop) for next service North

Set XC02 now sat at Laira. Voyager vice HST from Leeds to Plymouth tomorrow morning (1V48). What happens then to the 14:24 Plymouth - Edinburgh all rides on if the wheel sets and Traction Motors are serviceable. I assume if the set needs Tyre turning etc, it will stay at Laira until the end of the week or a voyager is ran vice HST to Plymouth, where the HST can work the return (with a voyager coupling onto the next service).

I have discovered that it is 1V50 which was Voyager vice HST. Realtime Trains is showing a 5Z73 1330 Totnes to Bristol TM ECS today which I presume is the set in question. Therefore 1E73 1625 Plymouth to Leeds (which 1V50 forms today) could see a set swap at Temple Meads to put the HST back in its diagram.

 

[starrymarkb]

If the trains can't get up the bank, do we need banking engines to help it us that more expensive than services being delayed or cancelled?

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I guess you could put a 66 on the back but it's not usually a problem. Voyagers and Units cope OK as they have more driven axles.

A friend of mine was caught up in it. I think her b/f drove to Totnes or Plymouth to get her in the end

 

[infobleep]

Well Woking decided otherwise. Woking was in a park with trees and more built up. I usually go to Brockham but this year ended up in Woking for a change.

I look forward on the end of the windy weather and the snow arriving.

I know the snow causes train problems but I like it.

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[Rapidash]

Weather certainly seems to be more aggressive that it was beginning of the week. The wind is definitely more constant, and its driving the rain vertically .

 

[transportphoto]

You still on the Island? We had a couple of rocky crossings earlier with the wind picking up. I'm looking forward to being on the first boat out in the morning, should be interesting.

EDIT: I'm getting my users confused here.

I got there and back, there and back entirely okay!

FYI I went out on the Wightlink St Clare then made two evening crossings the day later by foot on the Wightlink Wight Ryder II (there and back) and then the Wightlink St Faith brought us back onto the mainland for our journey home!

TP

 

[Peter Sarf]

Weather certainly seems to be more aggressive that it was beginning of the week. The wind is definitely more constant, and its driving the rain vertically .

Do you mean Horizontally ?.

I did get a few surprise gusts while in Cardiff on Saturday eve and that night the rain was really bashing the SW facing windows of the house. A lot of rain while driving back to Croydon Sunday night (21:00-00:30) along the M4. A lot of tree bits on the road in Surrey plus a lot of water running down roads rather than into the drains. Also a few patches of shallow flood - enough to aquaplane.

 

[South Western]

Dawlish is sheltered from most storms which come from the South West. Easterly or South Easterly winds are the ones that cause problems

Dawlish was bad on the night of 17th March 1965. My young wife of a few hours and I arrived at Dawlish Station from Reading after many delays at around 21.00 hours. Seas were washing over the train and we arrived at our hotel soaked through to our underclothes. It was horrendous. Wot a Honeymoon!!

There was NO talk of "Glowball Warming" then!!!

 

[infobleep]

Was that a diesel operated train in 1965?

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