Disruption expected due to storm Babet (19/10)

[The Puddock]

The panel were just assigning consecutive numbers to the *Z99 headcode it wasn't anything to do with the class, a good job they stopped at 3, Thunderbird 4 is submarine .....

We'll be needing that in Scotland tomorrow. The railway forecast model is predicting nearly 230mm of rain to fall in the northeast between this afternoon to 07:00 on Saturday morning. There's a network shutdown in the northeast with signalboxes between Dundee and Aberdeen closed, signallers sent home and maintenance/incident response staff being stood down in the red weather warning area from 17:00 on Thursday to 13:00 on Friday. There won't be any trains running from start of service to 15:00 on Friday between - Dunblane and Perth; Perth and Dundee; Dundee and Aberdeen; Ladybank and Perth/Dundee; Perth and Aviemore; Aberdeen and Elgin; Inverness and Wick/Thurso.