KIngs Cross Station is closed for the second time this afternoon, due to severe overcrowding, on Day 2 of LNER being unable to offer a meaningful service due to Storm Babet.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67182792
Passengers are only being allowed in when their train is ready for boarding.
Sounds like a difficult situation for all.
Oh my goodness! Do they have reader boards outside the station to indicate that trains ARE ready for boarding? Or are people just being notified via their phone apps that their train is ready. And hopefully they are allowing a little more time for boarding especially if you have to go from the front to the lines leaving out what I would call the back of the station.
(And yes, that was a subtle or not so subtle indicator of where having a cell phone AND service might be very helpful.)
Stuart...hope you are snugged up and dry at home!
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Indeed, a very stressful situation for all - those trying (or needing) to travel, those trying to provide information, those trying to manage any repairs and/or assessments ..... I really feel for everyone there.
Like Pam says, I am quite curious as to how people are getting information. What a nightmare to try to manage.
Pam,
I don't know how people are being notified, as this is uncharted territory. I hope they have set up crush barriers to have queues for individual trains then open the relevant door when ready. It may even be as low tech as at Victoria on Tuesday night during the bomb alert/fire alarm (whatever happened- they said a fire but only one fire engine attended, and lots of specialist police officers- so I think it was a bomb threat) when loud hailers were being used to holler to people.
I got caught in the beginning of the storm in Devon on Wednesday morning, but am all snug at home now. I am only 20 miles from Honister Pass which, even after this week at Brechin, holds the UK 24 hour rainfall record- 341mm, set in 2015. A storm which caused massive disruption in Cumbria. The UK very frequently has a storm at the end of October/start of November, but not on this scale. The 3 and 4 day rainfall records (456 and 495mm) were set in 2009 less than 30 miles away from me- at Seathwaite- also not surpassed at Brechin.
Two appalling, but fairly local storms. This was rare for being nationwide.
Oh my...those rainfall totals are definitely hurricane or tropical storm level! 341mm=13.42 inches, 456mm=17.9 inches, 495=19.5 inches
I'm glad you are tucked up at home.
@Concerned Local - hopefully Hurricane Tammy will be out of your way and nothing else will have generated by the time you get across the Atlantic!
Perversely it's been a very nice day here in Lancashire. The storm seems to have done two laps around us without greatly affectedly us apart from some rain overnight on Thursday. I was at the football in Blackburn this afternoon and they were watering the pitch before kick-off.
Disconcerting news. Kings Cross is the area I always stay, ie, in one of numerous B&Bs ca. 5-10 mins from the station.
bobbing alongside Guernsey
She is making 23 knots and is well to the north of Guernsey in a 10 knot breeze, due to dock at Southampton at 2100 tonight (on her AIS, but 1745 at the Nab according to Southampton VTS). She has been gradually picking up speed on her way up channel as the wind continues to get lighter. But she has been doing close to 20 knots since passing Cape Finisterre at about 11pm last night.
And boarding will be at breakfast time tomorrow as she is currently showing a 1215 departure time from Southampton Berth 101.
All services are now running as booked from Kings Cross as far as Newcastle, with ongoing disruption north of there due to the parapet repairs on the Plessey viaduct, south of Morpeth. But services will be very busy today.
