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Severe weather conditions have been forecast by the Met Office for the UK for Friday 1 and Saturday 2 February. The weather warning is valid from 0001 Friday 1st until 0600 Saturday 2nd February.
The Met Office continues to forecast colder weather to spread southwards across the UK during Friday and at first on Saturday giving heavy snow in places. Areas most at risk include Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland from early on Friday, extending to northern and central England and much of Wales on Friday afternoon, and perhaps into southern areas on Friday evening. Northern areas could see accumulations of 10cm of snow, with up to 20cm on higher ground, and blizzard conditions and snow drifts could occur in strong winds. Southern areas could see accumulations of 2 to 5cm of snow by Saturday morning. Disruption to transport and power networks is likely and the public are advised to take extra care. This warning will be updated by 1200 Friday 1st February unless superseded by Flash warnings.
What a good day for the Railway!
Firstly we have the fare revisions. This has made most tickets rise in price by around 4.8%. Some other fares have increased even more!
Secondly Notwork Rail have overrun on the Liverpool Street and Rugby engineering projects
The Liverpool Street Over run.
The bridge demolition outside Liverpool Street, the station work at Stratford and the trackwork at Shenfield was completed on time, however there have been serious problems with the overhead line replacement at Liverpool Street station. Notwork Rail informed ‘one’ Railway that the engineering work was hunky dory and running on time, but very late last night Notwork Rail decided to change their minds.
Notwork Rail engineers are continuing to work at Liverpool Street. Four of the six lines are now available into Liverpool Street, although there are a reduced number of platforms available in the station.
The Rugby Over run.
Notwork Rail has over run yet again on overhead line replacement in the Rugby area. The work was originally planned to have finished by New Years Eve. Notwork Rail have now stated that the line should be reopened around 0500GMT on Friday.
The works at Rugby have left the line closed between Birmingham International and Northampton and Virgin has advised passengers not to use its trains.
A spokesman for Virgin Trains, said: “This is a frustrating time for us and what we are particularly upset about is Network Rail’s inability to say exactly when the line will be back to normal. We would normally have carried around 50,000 to 60,000 people today and it is clear from the numbers travelling today that many people have found other ways of reaching their destination.”
ORR Enquiry.
The Office of Rail Regulation has annouced an urgent enquiry into the over runs and Notwork Rail could possibly recive multimillion pound fines as well as having to pay compensation to the Train Companies concerned.
Dont even think about trying to travel by rail this christmas!
The East Coast Mainline is completely closed betwen Hitchin, Stevenage and Knebworth. This is due to Network Rail replacing points at Stevenage.
NXEC trains will be terminating at Peterborough with a luxury coach transfer to and from London.
HullTrains mght be running between Hull and Retford with a coach transfer to and from London.
GrandCentral (haha) will not be running any trains until the 27th December (no surprise there then).
First Captial Connect services will berunning between London and Welwyn for bus connections for the North, and also between Peterborough/Cambridge and Hitchin.
Services should get back to normal on the 27th December 2007, that is if Network Rail dont overrun which is rumored to happen according to a member of Network Rail staff we spoke to today.
Today on GN.
There was a broken down train between Wakefield Westgate and Doncaster.
There was a broken down GNER train in the Huntingdon Area.
There was a power supply issue to a Level Crossing between Huntingdon and Peterborough, this was causing all trains to run at a reduced cautionary speeds.
There was also signal problems in the Kings Cross approach Area.
This is the Latest Visitor Information as to who is visiting this site.
Hopefully this should be a weekly feature, just so we can say “we know who your are” and “we know what your searching for”.
The top 2 search queries to get to this site are:
paul yarwood
family railcard
emap the publishing company visit not that often. The IP tracks down to an area in Peterborough.
Vodafone have been visiting Recently. This maybe be bored employees, or someone accessing the site on a mobile.
HSBC, Barclays, and a few Merchant banks such as UBS have been visiting.
South West Trains loves this site and always comes back every day, somtimes at early hours in the morning.
Notwork Rail also visit on a daily baisis, prehaps they come to the site to find out what the staff that they employe on the tracks are actually doing. They have also been searching for “paul yarwood”.
The BBC visit regually also, but seeing as the BBC have a huge IP range it is impossible to track down which area of the BBC is visiting.
We also know that one person likes viewing the site using Google Reader. Is this a way around the corporate firewall? interesting, still shows the corporate IP range.
There are a lot of people visiting using home ISP’s which is great.
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