All trains suspended from Paddington as travel chaos continues across the UK

All trains suspended from Paddington as travel chaos continues across the UK

Travelers across the UK are finding all kinds of disruption today and here at London Paddington it’s particularly bad the station which is the inter city hub for the west of England and South Wales um had actually been closed for 4 days over Christmas for work to do with the new

Hs2 project it reopened on schedule um but unfortunately within a couple of hours a for ality on the line between here and reading meant that all services were suspended they will be back uh to something like normal later on on Thursday but meanwhile it is looking

Very messy similar story in the uh north of Scotland where many trains were cancelled due to the effects of storm Garrett yesterday there are going to be trains running again but they have to to be cleared all those lines with a uh safety check during daylight and of

Course because in the north of Scotland it’s not light not Sunrise until 9:00 in the morning that has been slowing things down we’ve got the usual problems with staff shortage which have been plaguing travel all the way through the festive season indeed some would say all the way

Through the year and that is leading to cancellations and curtailments for example on Ln and on the feries yeah the cancellations have already begun on calonia mcbrain in the west of Scotland uh high winds in the channel causing some possible problems and the hovercraft link between uh Portsmouth or

South sea and ride on the is of white is suspended

Travel chaos is continuing across Britain.

Tens of thousands of travellers are waking up where they did not intend to be, after Storm Gerrit and technical failures plagued the rail network from the far north of Scotland to the south coast of England.

As Thursday morning dawned, London Paddington station reopened after a four-day closure for engineering work. The terminus is the hub for intercity services to and from South Wales and the West of England.

But within two hours all services had been suspended due to a fatality west of the station.

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