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Eurostar said services through the Channel Tunnel would resume on Sunday but there were warnings of further delays and busy stations. Unprecedented flooding was brought under control on Saturday, meaning at least one of the affected tunnels under the Thames near Ebbsfleet, not under the Channel itself, could be used.
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Eurostar services from London have been cancelled until the end of the day as heavy rain and strong winds threaten to spoil peoples new year plans. No high-speed services are expected to run between Ebbsfleet International and London St Pancras International today because a tunnel under the Thames is flooded. The flooding was also disrupting Southeastern trains that run on the route, the operator said.
(Permalink) EuroStar Flooding Southeastern Trains Thames Tunnel |
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The decision has been made due to heavy flooding on the track.
(Permalink) Flooding Kilwinning Largs |
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The closure comes as parts of Scotland have once again been hit with torrential rain in the wake of Storm Debi.
(Permalink) Ardlui Arrochar and Tarbet Flooding Storm Debi West Highland Railway |
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The Met Office has extended its amber alerts across huge parts of Scotland with up to 50mm of rain expected to fall in some part in the next few hours.
(Permalink) Aberdeen-Inverurie Cancellations Flooding Highland Main Line Inverness-Elgin ScotRail |
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Three weeks' worth of rain could fall across parts of the country this weekend with people urged not to travel unless necessary.
(Permalink) Cancellations Flooding ScotRail Weather  Bowling: Flooding at Bowling station has covered the track entirely. Lines all over Scotland are closed as a result of heavy rain. Bowling previously flooded in late December 2022, see image [[83878]]. |
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Scenes of flooded stations across Scotland have been posted by Network rail as Saturdays torrential downpour continues unabated.
(Permalink) Cancellations Flooding ScotRail Weather |
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The persistent heavy rain in the Highlands is beginning to claim more services after trains south were cancelled.
(Permalink) Cancellations Flooding ScotRail Weather |
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West Highland Line, Highland Mainline and Helensburgh / Balloch services to be severely affected. Speed restrictions also being introduced elsewhere across the network due to risk of flooding and landslips.
(Permalink) Cancellations Flooding ScotRail Weather |
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The heavy rain forecasts affecting the Highlands are expected to cause major disruption to train travels in the region this morning.
(Permalink) Cancellations Delays Flooding Glasgow Queen Street Inverness Kyle Of Lochalsh Perth Weather West Highland Line |
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A Glasgow Subway station was closed today due to flooding.
(Permalink) Flooding Glasgow District Subway West Street [Subway] |
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Network Rail Scotland say sections of the West Highland Line were badly damaged after heavy rain.
(Permalink) Flooding Roy Bridge Tulloch West Highland Railway  Tulloch: Engineers worked around-the-clock to repair the West Highland Line at three sites after severe flooding on Monday night caused significant damage between Roy Bridge and Tulloch. The repairs will inclu ... |
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The damage to the line is extensive and it will take several days for engineers to complete repairs.
(Permalink) Flooding Landslip Roy Bridge Tulloch West Highland Railway |
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Engineers will be working around-the-clock to repair the West Highland Line after severe flooding on Monday night caused significant damage between Roy Bridge and Tulloch.
(Permalink) Flooding Landslip Roy Bridge Tulloch |
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The train operator has issued a list of services that it says cannot run because of the inclement weather conditions.
(Permalink) Cancellations Flooding ScotRail Weather |
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Rail chiefs are working to arrange replacement buses, but none have been confirmed so far.
(Permalink) Bowling Branchton Cancellations Flooding Network Rail ScotRail Weather |
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Pictures show four cars submerged under water as a yellow weather warning for rain is in place, with the heavy downpour wreaking havoc on roads and railways. Greenock West train station is completely flooded, with the water having made it's way inside the waiting room of the station. All services on the North Clyde route, which connects Glasgow to the West of Scotland, have been cancelled. [For some of the day, Helensburgh Upper and Dumbarton were operating as termini for the West Highland. -RS]
(Permalink) Flooding Greenock West |
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An options survey will be undertaken by Network Rail and concluded by mid-March to see if a solution is affordable.
(Permalink) Flooding Kintore Network Rail |
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Network Rail Scotland has shared images showing the full scale of flooding on the track between Aberdeen and Inverness.
(Permalink) Flooding Inverurie Network Rail River Don |
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An amber weather warning in eastern Scotland has been extended with flooding leading to school closures and disruption on roads and railways.
(Permalink) Aberdeen Arbroath Cancellations Dalgety Bay Dundee Flooding Grantshouse Inverness Inverurie LNER Laurencekirk Linlithgow Montrose Rain ScotRail Weather |
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Rail services have been hit by the weather this morning. The East Coast Line is flooded at Dalgety Bay. The Dundee-Arbroath service is suspended along with services between Aberdeen and Inverurie. ScotRail has speed restrictions on many routes.
(Permalink) Aberdeen Arbroath Cancellations Dalgety Bay Dundee Flooding Grantshouse Inverness Inverurie LNER Laurencekirk Linlithgow Montrose Rain ScotRail Weather |
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High winds and heavy rain are set to hit the east of Scotland over the next 48 hours and speed restrictions will be imposed on sections of the railway.
(Permalink) Flooding Network Rail Rain Weather |
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Train service cancellations due to heavy rain and flooding appear to be getting more common.
(Permalink) Cancellations Flooding ScotRail |
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Tayside commuters are facing another day of disruption as flooding has blocked the railway line between Perth and Inverness.
(Permalink) Flooding Highland Main Line |
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In an urgent message, the travel operator announced on social media that heavy flooding in the capital has closed two of the four lines between Edinburgh Waverley and Haymarket.
(Permalink) Edinburgh Waverley Flooding Haymarket Mound tunnels Princes Street Gardens |
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Heavy rain will hit parts of Scotland again as unsettled weather continues to cause travel disruption.
(Permalink) Flooding Moncrieffe Tunnel Perth |
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Train services between Dundee and Aberdeen faced disruption after the northbound line was shut due to flooding. Network Rail was 'monitoring the situation closely' and confirmed the line reopened shortly after 10am.
(Permalink) Cancellations Carmont Delays Flooding |
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'The flooding of last year was the worst disaster we ever experienced on the Belgian railways', said civil engineer at Infrabel Bart Kamoen at the RailTech webinar on Climate Change Adaptation. How did Infrabel deal with the aftermath and what is needed to make the railways more resilient?
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Network Rail announces multi-million-pound investment to help protect the railway from extreme flooding and passenger disruption.
(Permalink) Cambrian Line Flooding Storm Dudley Storm Eunice Storm Franklin Welshpool |
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The train operator put out the warning this morning after the bad weather caused flooding and damage on the tracks throughout the West Coast Mainline. Customers are advised to check before leaving.
(Permalink) Flooding Storm Franklin Weather West Coast Main Line Wind |
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Train services near Glasgow have been disrupted this morning due to flooding.
(Permalink) Coatbridge Sunnyside Flooding  Coatbridge Sunnyside: Main station building at Coatbridge Sunnyside looking west, 2007. |
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A road under a railway bridge in Wick has become 'completely impassable' for walkers because of flooding.
(Permalink) Flooding Pedestrians Wick |
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Trains are currently unable to pass over the Annan viaduct as reports of two road bridges being 'washed away' on the river Annan affect transport.
(Permalink) Annan Annan Viaduct Carlisle Dumfries Flooding Road bridges washed away Weather  Annan Viaduct: Railway bridge over the River Annan just west of Annan station, photographed in May 2007 from the east bank of the river. [Ref query 6889] |
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Two bridges are washed away and the Carlisle to Dumfries rail line shut amid more heavy downpours.
(Permalink) Annan Annan Viaduct Carlisle Dumfries Flooding Road bridges washed away Weather |
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Rail passengers are being told not to travel north from Preston today (Friday, October 29) as heavy rain continues to disrupt services to Cumbria and Scotland.
(Permalink) Annan Flooding Lake District Preston |
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Network Rail said two road bridges had been 'washed away'.
(Permalink) Annan Annan Viaduct Carlisle Dumfries Flooding Road bridges washed away Weather |
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Avanti West Coast - which runs services between London Euston and Glasgow, where the climate conference begins on Sunday - said Network Rail had imposed a series of speed restrictions.
(Permalink) Avanti West Coast Flooding Network Rail Speed restrictions |
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Northern continues to advise customers not to travel on the Cumbrian Coast Line due to poor conditions following torrential rain across the county.
(Permalink) Cumbrian Coast Line Flooding Northern |
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Heavy rain and flooding are continuing to cause major disruptions for rail passengers today.
(Permalink) Avanti West Coast Flooding Weather |
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The firm behind a multi-million-pound restoration of a popular railway trail which was destroyed by flooding has won an award for its work.
(Permalink) Keswick and Penrith Railway Civil Engineering Contractors Association Cockermouth Cubby Construction Flooding Footpath  Keswick: After passing through the now infilled tunnel see image [[39079]], passengers for Keswick crossed the River Greta at an angle, on an inverted bowstring girder bridge. This view looks South West along ...  Threlkeld: The remains of Threlkeld's island platform in 2013, forty one years after final closure. View looking east towards Troutbeck and Penrith with the council depot that occupies the old goods yard also vi ...  Keswick: The closed station at Keswick looking east in September 2006, approximately 34 years after closure. The station is intended to be used as the terminus if the line ever re-opens. See image [[11717]] |
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Work is underway to upgrade drainage systems and re-profile embankments to reduce the risk of flooding and landslips on the line between Sanquhar and Dumfries.
(Permalink) Drainage Dumfries Embankments Flooding Glasgow and South Western Railway Maintenance Sanquhar |
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Scotrail have cancelled all trains between parts of Ayrshire and Glasgow after heavy flooding completely shut the line.
(Permalink) Cancellations Flooding Johnstone Milliken Park |
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Trains in the Clydebank area are being disrupted once again due to severe heavy rain.
(Permalink) Dalmuir No 23 Tunnels Flooding Forth and Clyde Canal Railway ScotRail |
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Train services north of Perth are returning to normal after being delayed due to heavy rain in the area.
Services between Dunkeld and Birnam, and Blair Atholl, as well as Aberdeen and Inverness, were running at reduced speeds on Monday morning. (Permalink) Aberdeen Blair Atholl Dunkeld Flooding Inverness Rain Weather |
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A yellow weather warning for thunderstorms remains in place for most of Scotland.
(Permalink) Dalmuir No 23 Tunnels Flooding Forth and Clyde Canal Railway ScotRail |
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The torrential downpours are set to continue across Scotland with a yellow warning in place up until midnight on Sunday.
(Permalink) Dalmuir No 23 Tunnels Flooding Forth and Clyde Canal Railway ScotRail |
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The closure of a Glasgow Subway station has sparked chaos for commuters.
(Permalink) Flooding West Street [Subway] |
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Network Rail Scotland has announced that there are currently speed restrictions across train tracks in Scotland as a result of the heavy rain and thunderstorms in recent days.
(Permalink) Blair Atholl Croy Dunkeld Elgin Flooding Garnqueen North Junction Gartcosh Glasgow Queen Street High Level Keith ScotRail Sighthill East Junction Speed Restrictions Springburn |
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Network Rail has said that 8ft of water flooded the twin tunnels at Dalmuir.
(Permalink) Dalmuir No 23 Tunnels Flooding Forth and Clyde Canal Railway ScotRail |
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Network Rail has imposed a 40mph speed limit on two rail lines in the north warning commuters of potential delays to services. The alterations will affect services travelling between Aberdeen and Inverness and on the Highland Main Line, between Perth and Inverness.
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The flooding caused trains in the capital to be stopped and homes, bars and businesses were affected.
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ScotRail has announced that flooding due to heavy rain has meant that the line between Laurencekirk and Montrose is closed, affecting Glasgow, Edinburgh and Montrose to Aberdeen services.
(Permalink) Cancellations Flooding Laurencekirk Montrose |
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Heavy downpour overnight is impacting rail services in the Highlands.
(Permalink) Far North Line Flooding Kyle Line Weather West Highland Line |
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Rail passengers in the Highlands were facing a third day of disruption on Tuesday after sustained rainfall sparked further cancellations and delays.
(Permalink) Flooding Highland Main Line Kyle Line Weather West Highland Line |
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Rail passengers in the Highlands have been warned to expect disruption today after several trains were cancelled amid a yellow weather warning.
(Permalink) Cancellations Flooding Highland Main Line Kyle Line Weather |
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ScotRail services travelling from Inverness to the central belt have been cancelled for a fourth consecutive day.
(Permalink) Flooding Highland Main Line Weather |
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Rail commuters are experiencing cancellations to services travelling to and from Inverness this morning.
(Permalink) Flooding Highland Main Line ScotRail Weather |
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Flooding on the line in between Largs and West Kilbride has affected Glasgow train services.
(Permalink) Fairlie Flooding Largs West Kilbride |
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On August, 12, 2020, after heavy rainfall and extreme weather, the Union Canal burst its banks near Muiravonside and flowed into neighbouring fields, causing havoc for local landowners. [Railscot note - the floodwater washed out a portion of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway].
(Permalink) Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Flood Flooding Linlithgow Polmont |
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Rail operator LNER have reported that their services are affected due to flooding between Darlington and York.
(Permalink) Darlington Flooding LNER York |
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Passengers have been warned that rail services between Maryport and Carlisle have been been cancelled because of flooding.
(Permalink) Flooding Maryport and Carlisle Railway |
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Train operator Avanti West Coast has warned of 'severe disruption' for Carlisle Railway Station passengers.
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Flooding has sparked the closure of the Far North Line and the cancellation of railway services on the route.
(Permalink) Ardgay Far North Line Flooding |
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Work continues to be carried out to repair railway line damaged in last month's thunderstorms when Union Canal breached its banks.
(Permalink) Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Flood Flooding Linlithgow Polmont |
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