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Storm Ciarán triggers travel chaos. Rail commuters in southern England warned: “Work from home on Thursday if you can. Avoid non-essential journeys.” Newhaven-Dieppe ferry suspended tonight for 24 hours. All trains in northern France cancelled on Thursday.
Sensible precautions or over-reacting? Possibly with the ground saturated from a very wet spell, flooding is as likely as stuff being blown on the lines, I'm certainly concerned about my plans and I'm in the north!
One of the biggest issues commuter operators have in bad weather is that it's very often the evening when it gets bad. The TOC have managed to get tens if not hundreds of thousands of people into central London, and all of a sudden can't get them home again. Thus if any of them can be convinced not to go in on that morning, a load of hassle for both them and the TOC is avoided.
It's less of an issue for a TOC like Northern who might only have to find an alternative way of shifting a couple of 2-car DMUs' worth.
Surprised this hasn’t cropped up here yet, however there looks to be a rather vicious storm arriving Wednesday night into Thursday morning. The exact track isn’t certain, but it looks to have the potential to bring some serious disruption to southern counties especially along the coast as a...
One of the biggest issues commuter operators have in bad weather is that it's very often the evening when it gets bad. The TOC have managed to get tens if not hundreds of thousands of people into central London, and all of a sudden can't get them home again. Thus if any of them can be convinced not to go in on that morning, a load of hassle for both them and the TOC is avoided.
It's less of an issue for a TOC like Northern who might only have to find an alternative way of shifting a couple of 2-car DMUs' worth.
Northern have got to shift me to the airport as I allude to in the "trips" section" yes, it's a good call that getting to work might be OK, but getting them home not so OK is trees are on the lines, lines down or flooding. Note that a lot of ferries have already been cancelled, to/from the Channel Isles example. Apparently they (Channel Isles) have also closed primary schools for the day which appears a bit of overkill as they won't be needing trains to get home!
The good news these days is there's social media to keep everyone informed, not the case when the non-hurricane (Micheal Hish!!) hurricane hit in way back then. And, of course, here!!
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Surprised this hasn’t cropped up here yet, however there looks to be a rather vicious storm arriving Wednesday night into Thursday morning. The exact track isn’t certain, but it looks to have the potential to bring some serious disruption to southern counties especially along the coast as a...
Thanks, I couldn't find that, wondered why there wasn't a thread, this can be closed and transferred, I'll ask the mods. (unless this can be rail-specific??)
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