In message , at 08:00:19 on Mon, 28
Oct 2013, Graeme Wall remarked:
Way down in de deep sarf it's not been as bad as expected, a few trees
down in Southampton but nothing serious. Though there were gusts of
nearly 100mph on the Isle of Wight. Appears to have been worse east of
here

Update, an AXC ECS train hit a tree near Ivybridge in Devon, driver not
hurt.

There's a tree on the line just north of Brighton.
--
Roland Perry

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
...
In message , at 08:00:19 on Mon, 28 Oct
2013, Graeme Wall remarked:
Way down in de deep sarf it's not been as bad as expected, a few trees
down in Southampton but nothing serious. Though there were gusts of
nearly 100mph on the Isle of Wight. Appears to have been worse east of
here

Update, an AXC ECS train hit a tree near Ivybridge in Devon, driver not
hurt.

There's a tree on the line just north of Brighton.
--
Roland Perry

The train checking the line has hit a tree near Christ's Hospital station,
my sources tell me.

In message , at 08:00:19 on Mon, 28
Oct 2013, Graeme Wall remarked:
Update, an AXC ECS train hit a tree near Ivybridge in Devon, driver not
hurt.

FCC have just tweeted "no trains until further notice", having
previously expected to start at 9am. Their website is currently down.

EMT won't be venturing south of Bedford until at least noon.

Network Rail tweets: "16 trees on the line in Wessex, 32 in Kent, 11 in
Sussex, 37 in Wessex, Anglia too is disrupted."

[And Greater Anglia aren't running anything at all].

--
Roland Perry

On 28/10/2013 08:31, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:00:19 on Mon, 28
Oct 2013, Graeme Wall remarked:
Update, an AXC ECS train hit a tree near Ivybridge in Devon, driver
not hurt.

FCC have just tweeted "no trains until further notice", having
previously expected to start at 9am. Their website is currently down.

EMT won't be venturing south of Bedford until at least noon.

Network Rail tweets: "16 trees on the line in Wessex,

Essex?

32 in Kent, 11 in Sussex, 37 in Wessex,

Or is that Essex?

Anglia too is disrupted."

[And Greater Anglia aren't running anything at all].


There's flooding in the tunnel at Potters Bar apparently.

--
Graeme Wall
This account not read, substitute trains for rail.
Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

In message , at 08:35:35 on Mon, 28 Oct
2013, Graeme Wall remarked:
Network Rail tweets: "16 trees on the line in Wessex,

Essex?

32 in Kent, 11 in Sussex, 37 in Wessex,

Or is that Essex?

I'd plump for the 16 being Essex.

Anglia too is disrupted."

[And Greater Anglia aren't running anything at all].

GA pushed back to noon, EMT Nottingham-Norwich 11am.

--
Roland Perry

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"
--
Roland Perry

On 28/10/2013 08:41, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 08:35:35 on Mon, 28 Oct
2013, Graeme Wall remarked:
Network Rail tweets: "16 trees on the line in Wessex,

Essex?

32 in Kent, 11 in Sussex, 37 in Wessex,

Or is that Essex?

I'd plump for the 16 being Essex.

Sounds more likely

Fortunately nowhere near as bad as '87.


Anglia too is disrupted."

[And Greater Anglia aren't running anything at all].

GA pushed back to noon, EMT Nottingham-Norwich 11am.


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


--
Graeme Wall
This account not read, substitute trains for rail.
Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

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.
--
Roland Perry

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.

--
Graeme Wall
This account not read, substitute trains for rail.
Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

In article , Roland Perry
scribeth thus
In message , at 15:44:53 on
Sun, 27 Oct 2013, General remarked:
In the north of Cambs, the highest wind speed is at 9am (under the Met
Office's 3hr granularity). 26mph gusting 45mph, which is quite a bit
lower maximum than for London (eg 33/60 at Heathrow at 6am).
==========================

I really wouldn't take that as gospel - the UKMO warnings system tends
to be a few hours out of date.

It's OK, I went and did my errands, the ones people were advising
against, and didn't encounter any bad weather. Back home now.



Not to bad up here in Cambridge peaked at 50 knots just before 8 this
morning.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/dtg...raph.cgi?today

Came back from the cross last nite a very overloaded train and a hellava
lurch somewhere south of Stevenage, felt like the wheels had lifted off
the track lot of PAX gasped in surprise;!...

--
Tony Sayer