{"id":676405,"date":"2026-01-05T23:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676405\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T23:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:03:13","slug":"snow-and-ice-hit-uk-road-and-rail-travel-with-schools-forced-to-shut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676405\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow and ice hit UK road and rail travel with schools forced to shut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eurostar trains from King&#8217;s Cross St Pancras have also been unable to reach the Netherlands due to the poor weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Passengers travelling between London, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam are being advised to postpone their journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Please don&#8217;t come to the station if your train is shown as cancelled,&#8221; a statement said on the Eurostar website. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We regret that trains that can run will be subject to severe delays and possible last-minute cancellations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This follows Eurostar services being hit after a power supply problem caused significant disruption in the Channel Tunnel last week, leaving thousands struggling to travel ahead of New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heavy snow is still causing disruption to trains across northern Scotland, with Network Rail Scotland warning &#8220;exceptionally deep snow and severe weather conditions&#8221; are limiting the progress of its snow ploughs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">LNER has advised anyone travelling between Edinburgh and Aberdeen not to travel until 14:00 GMT Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Severe weather is also affecting services in Wales and trains are disrupted between Wales and Manchester Piccadilly as well as between Llandudno Junction and Blaenau Ffestiniog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stagecoach has suspended all bus services in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire until further notice &#8220;in the interest of driver and passenger safety&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Shropshire, firefighters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ce3klx4vdxqo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trudged through half a mile of snow<\/a> in the dark to deal with a chimney fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service said a crew from Ellesmere was was called to a house near Oswestry on Sunday night and access was &#8220;extremely challenging&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eurostar trains from King&#8217;s Cross St Pancras have also been unable to reach the Netherlands due to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-676405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115844992441436141","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}