Snow LIVE: Trains cancelled as 'disruptive snow' forecast for large swathes of the UK

Train services person been cancelled and motorists person been warned of hazardous driving conditions arsenic snowfall has fallen crossed ample swathes of the UK.

Severe upwind warnings stay successful spot arsenic the Met Office understands "disruptive snow" volition origin issues passim this morning. The yellowish upwind alerts for snowfall and crystal screen the Midlands, bluish England, parts of Northern Ireland, northeast Wales and sections of Northern Ireland.

National Rail warned the acold clime would interaction assorted routes connected the Northern Rail until astatine slightest 2pm connected Tuesday. Impacted areas included the Bradford Interchange and Huddersfield, and besides betwixt Halifax and Hebden Bridge and Hull.

Mersey Rail issued an alert informing passengers that owed to the imaginable of snowfall and crystal covering tracks, the archetypal work connected each enactment successful northbound westbound England would tally without customers to guarantee conditions could beryllium checked. Travellers were advised to cheque their section obstruction app oregon societal media and program their journeys ahead.

Dan Suri, Chief Meteorologist astatine the Met Office, said: "An country of debased unit slides its mode eastwards connected Monday night. The associated frontal system, marking the bound betwixt acold aerial successful the northbound and milder conditions to the south, volition bring disruptive snowfall to immoderate areas betwixt Monday evening and Tuesday morning.

"This is apt to coincide with unreserved hour, starring to disruption to immoderate transport routes crossed a cardinal swathe of the UK connected Tuesday morning. It volition besides beryllium windy successful the acold south."