Yorkshire Flood Problems

In article <7fd8IdaydLgGFw0a@romana.davros.org>,
"Clive D. W. Feather" <clive@on-the-train.> wrote:

> In article <5eab8uF37hinoU1@mid.>, Mark Morton
> <mark@bustingmychops.com> writes
> >I've just seen someone on the local news from Leeds city council saying
> >that Leeds station is shut now.
>
> This morning at 07:40 all the Leeds services on the King's Cross display
> boards were cancelled.

there was a Network Rail woman on Radio Leeds at 0645 saying that water
was running so high underneath a bridge north of Doncaster that it was
now unsafe so there would be no Leeds-London KX trains till the water
went down.

At 0710 the screens on my local station, Burley-i-W were showing all
trains on time.

The there was a local councillor from Ripponden on Radio Leeds about
0720 who made my blood boil - she had checked the GNER web site at 0500
to find all was running OK, so had driven from Ripponden to Wakefield to
find no London trains, so had driven on to Leeds, likewise, and she was
furious with GNER that they had not had the info on the web at 0500....
so seeing the Radio reporter on the station, she pounced for a bit of
gratuitous railway bashing.

Surely anyone who is a councillor should have the gumption to realise
that if Leeds station is flooded, as all the news programmes said last
night, that the best way to get to London would be via Manchester (which
might well be the best way normally anyway), and even then why drive to
Leeds when it would be easier by train in the first place. BAH!!

Glad to get that off my chest!!

SB

On 26 Jun, 08:52, Andrew H <and...@hillyard22.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> On 25 Jun, 22:31, Andrew H <and...@hillyard22.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Interesting stuff from Transpennine Express. It seems they are or were
> > serving Halifax and Bradford for a time:
>
> > The heavy rain fall from Monday 25 June has caused severe disruption
> > to many services. Passengers need to be aware that there will be no
> > rail services between Cleethorpes and Sheffield, Sheffield and
> > Manchester and Selby and Hull, due to flooding. An hourly service will
> > run between Manchester Piccadilly and Huddersfield, via Stalybridge.
> > An hourly service will also run from Liverpool Lime Street, calling at
> > Manchester Piccadilly, Halifax, Bradford, Leeds and York. There will,
> > however, be no service at Dewsbury, due to signalling problems. A rail
> > replacement bus service will run between Malton and York and we will
> > endeavour to provide replacement road transport wherever possible,
> > although this is being prohibited by severe flooding on the roads.
>
> > We would recommend that customers only travel if it is essential as
> > extensive delays are likely. We would like to apologise in advance for
> > any inconvenience you may experience.
>
> I ca confirm that Transpennine Express are currently running between
> Huddersfield and Leeds via Halifax and Bradfird
>
> Although Northern are saying that Leeds to Bradford Interchange
> services are suspended, presumably they mean Leeds to Bradford FS?

Yes - the Kirkstall flooding has stopped everything out of Leeds
heading towards Apperley Junction & Shipley. Bradford Forster Square
to Ilkley and Skipton are running, as are the Carlisle & Morecambe
lines north of Skipton.

GM

On 26 Jun, 08:52, Andrew H <and...@hillyard22.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> On 25 Jun, 22:31, Andrew H <and...@hillyard22.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Interesting stuff from Transpennine Express. It seems they are or were
> > serving Halifax and Bradford for a time:
>
> > The heavy rain fall from Monday 25 June has caused severe disruption
> > to many services. Passengers need to be aware that there will be no
> > rail services between Cleethorpes and Sheffield, Sheffield and
> > Manchester and Selby and Hull, due to flooding. An hourly service will
> > run between Manchester Piccadilly and Huddersfield, via Stalybridge.
> > An hourly service will also run from Liverpool Lime Street, calling at
> > Manchester Piccadilly, Halifax, Bradford, Leeds and York. There will,
> > however, be no service at Dewsbury, due to signalling problems. A rail
> > replacement bus service will run between Malton and York and we will
> > endeavour to provide replacement road transport wherever possible,
> > although this is being prohibited by severe flooding on the roads.
>
> > We would recommend that customers only travel if it is essential as
> > extensive delays are likely. We would like to apologise in advance for
> > any inconvenience you may experience.
>
> I ca confirm that Transpennine Express are currently running between
> Huddersfield and Leeds via Halifax and Bradfird
>
> Although Northern are saying that Leeds to Bradford Interchange
> services are suspended, presumably they mean Leeds to Bradford FS?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Transpennine Express are still running between Huddersfield and Leeds
via Bradford. There seems to be confusion over whether these services
are calling at Huddersfield or not. Metro seems to think they are
diverting from Stalybridge, can anyone confirm?

The online departure boards at Halifax and Bradford don't show any TPE
services and the Huddersfield one just has lots of 'No Report'

Is the flooding at Dewsbury itself?

On 26 Jun, 12:51, Andrew H <and...@hillyard22.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> > - Show quoted text -
>
> Transpennine Express are still running between Huddersfield and Leeds
> via Bradford. There seems to be confusion over whether these services
> are calling at Huddersfield or not. Metro seems to think they are
> diverting from Stalybridge, can anyone confirm?
>
> The online departure boards at Halifax and Bradford don't show any TPE
> services and the Huddersfield one just has lots of 'No Report'
>
> Is the flooding at Dewsbury itself?

River Calder has burst its banks at Mirfield.
TPE calling at Huddersfield then to Leeds via Brighouse, making
additional calls at Halifax and the Interchange.

Just checked the Live departures boards on National Rail - I am trying
to get to Malton

Malton and Scarborough boards say the line to/from York is closed, the
York arrivals board shows the next train from Scarborough having
departed there on time.....

shall I risk it???

SB

> shall I risk it???
>
> SB

TPE site on National Rail disruption site says one per hour each way
from York to Scarborough ........

So who's right?

shaun wrote:
> "Arthur Figgis" <afiggis@example.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:46803e7e$0$8753$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
>> shaun wrote:
>>> "Andrew H" <andrew@hillyard22.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
>>> news:1182785389.562127.30580@c77g2000hse. ...
>>>> There are currently major problems on Yorkshire's railways due to very
>>>> heavy rain. Details as follows:
>>>
>>>
>>> Been on local news that there will be no arrivals or departures from Hull
>>> station for the rest of the day...
>> Family in Anlaby, west of Hull (u.r: adjacent to site of the long-gone
>> H&BR Springhead works) report ~6" of water in the living room.
>
> Sounds like they got off quite lightly. Bits of that area are under several
> feet of water with some streets in Anlaby flowing like a river. Humber
> Rescue were parked up in Anlaby village with their boat yesterday - they've
> since moved to Grimsby where a river is threatening to burst.

I suspect now isn't the time to put in another planning application to
build on the Common.

Ooh, our house is on the Hull Daily Mail website :-/

--
Arthur Figgis

"Arthur Figgis" <afiggis@example.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:468147fb$0$8722$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
> shaun wrote:
>> "Arthur Figgis" <afiggis@example.com.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:46803e7e$0$8753$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net...
>>> shaun wrote:
>>>> "Andrew H" <andrew@hillyard22.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>> news:1182785389.562127.30580@c77g2000hse. ...
>>>>> There are currently major problems on Yorkshire's railways due to very
>>>>> heavy rain. Details as follows:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Been on local news that there will be no arrivals or departures from
>>>> Hull station for the rest of the day...
>>> Family in Anlaby, west of Hull (u.r: adjacent to site of the long-gone
>>> H&BR Springhead works) report ~6" of water in the living room.
>>
>> Sounds like they got off quite lightly. Bits of that area are under
>> several feet of water with some streets in Anlaby flowing like a river.
>> Humber Rescue were parked up in Anlaby village with their boat
>> yesterday - they've since moved to Grimsby where a river is threatening
>> to burst.
>
> I suspect now isn't the time to put in another planning application to
> build on the Common.

Unless it's a plan to build an ark


> Ooh, our house is on the Hull Daily Mail website :-/

I'm very pleased to say that ours isn't...

In article <1182868271.327518.117380@p77g2000hsh. .com>,
TBirdFrank <frankie@t-bird.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> > shall I risk it???
> >
> > SB
>
> TPE site on National Rail disruption site says one per hour each way
> from York to Scarborough ........
>
> So who's right?

and one per hour is the normal service, I shall find out at 0745
tomorrow!!SB

Andrew H wrote:
> There's no service to Manchester Airport running from Yorkshire
>
> How are these routes coping overcrowding wise. I can't imagine any
> employers around Huddersfield, Leeds, Manchester letting their staff
> not come to work (Sheffield obviously is a different story) so how are
> 4 very overcrowded trains worth of people going to fit on one service?
>
> Are TPE running more than one unit on these. Huddersfield can take 9
> cars on Platforms 1 and 4, and I'm sure the other stations can, so
> maybe TPE could run 3 units coupled together?

There's nothing about calling at Halifax tomorrow, just Bradford
Interchange.

Could Halifax and Bradford Interchange take a 9-car set? Halifax could
fit 6 cars in? How about platform 1 at the Interchange?