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[email protected] October 31st 13 12:22 PM
Storm St Jude...
 
In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
07:21:46 on Mon, 28 Oct 2013, Neil Williams
remarked:
Especially poor given that it will double the amount of confusion at
Gatwick, and force more people onto the roads to get to the airport.
And it's not even OHL related.

The WCML is running (with disruption due to a tree at Bushey). Why
are we different from FCC north I wonder?

The Fen Line is all-cancelled (as are all Greater Anglia's services).
The only thing running in Cambs seems to be the XC
Stansted-Birmingham, which are being turned at Cambridge.

Thameslink-north would need a special timetable, as the trains are
running to/from south of the river (where again everything seems to
be cancelled), and presumably they don't have such a plan.

I suspect there are problems between Bedford and St Pancras. They won't have
a timetable for that.

EMT seem to be running a shuttle service from Bedford to the north on
the Midland Mainline, but without FCC to connect to, all will do is
create a lot of business for the buffet at Bedford. (The LM service
to Bletchley is running but that's an awful slow way to get to
London).

My daughter's 11:03 VT EUS-BHM got away 20 minutes late and was last
reported at Leighton Buzzard 34 late.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

[email protected] October 31st 13 12:22 PM
Storm St Jude...
 
In article ,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

On Sun, 27 Oct 2013 20:52:31 +0000, Roland Perry
wrote:
Especially poor given that it will double the amount of confusion at
Gatwick, and force more people onto the roads to get to the airport.
And it's not even OHL related.

The WCML is running (with disruption due to a tree at Bushey). Why
are we different from FCC north I wonder?

No Virgin Trains services from Euston my daughter tells me. She is booked on
the 11:00.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

[email protected] October 31st 13 12:22 PM
Storm St Jude...
 
In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 16:04:45
on Sun, 27 Oct 2013, Paul Corfield remarked:

No Southern trains apparently until 0900 or 1000.

Especially poor given that it will double the amount of confusion at
Gatwick, and force more people onto the roads to get to the airport.
And it's not even OHL related.

Gatwick will have flights in the morning? I doubt it.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

[email protected] October 31st 13 12:22 PM
Storm St Jude...
 
In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

I wonder if things are getting a bit fraught at some of the stations?
FCC just tweeted (their caps): "We urge you NOT TO TRAVEL TO THE
STATION as we are not running any services until further notice"

Euston seem to be coping.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

[email protected] October 31st 13 12:22 PM
Storm St Jude...
 
In article ,
(Graeme Wall) wrote:

On 28/10/2013 09:03, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:53:36 on Mon, 28 Oct
2013, Graeme Wall remarked:

SWT are still going for a nine o'clock start.

Not any mo

"UPDATED AT 08:51

We have found in excess of 30 trees blocking lines across our network.

We will be operating a significantly reduced timetable on Monday. It is
highly unlikely that trains will run before 1100 at the earliest"

ps. I'm getting "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" from the NationalRail
site now.

I can get the journey planner page but it hangs when I try and get a
train from Southampton. Presumably can't cope with the load. Not
helped by silly buggers, like me, just looking to see if it is
working.

The only useful site that seems to be working is realtimetrains.co.uk.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Roland Perry October 31st 13 06:16 PM
Storm St Jude...
 
In message , at 08:22:46
on Thu, 31 Oct 2013, remarked:
In '87 I was woken by a crashing sound.

I was awoken by (probably) the sound of wheelie bins being blown down
the street. No doubt they had been put out for an early morning
collection.

Not in Cambridge then? Wheelie bins came in later that year.

Brentwood, roughly in the middle of my time working at Amstrad.
--
Roland Perry

Roland Perry October 31st 13 06:19 PM
Storm St Jude...
 
In message , at 08:22:47
on Thu, 31 Oct 2013, remarked:
No Southern trains apparently until 0900 or 1000.

Especially poor given that it will double the amount of confusion at
Gatwick, and force more people onto the roads to get to the airport.
And it's not even OHL related.

Gatwick will have flights in the morning? I doubt it.

I didn't look at Gatwick on Monday, but Heathrow was working pretty well
with just a few short-haul flights cancelled (which is their standard
contingency plan).
--
Roland Perry


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