Snow warning: Trains cancelled due to weather as National Rail issues warning

National Rail has warned the acold upwind volition interaction assorted routes, including those connected Northern Rail until astatine slightest 2pm today, and Mersey Rail has alerted passengers to cheque timetables too

Trains person been cancelled this greeting crossed the UK owed to the weather.

Snow has already fallen overnight successful immoderate areas, and is expected to autumn successful others arsenic an Arctic chill moves southwards passim the day.

Elsewhere, dense rainfall has battered parts of bluish England and led to flooding, including successful Cumbria. Several services betwixt Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness person already been scrapped by Northern Rail this greeting owed to flooding adjacent the Cumbria larboard town. Some services connected East MIdlands Railway betwixt Doncaster and Peterborough, and besides betwixt Sheffield and Norwich are delayed, says National Rail.

And Mersey Rail has 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 are advised to cheque their section obstruction app oregon societal media and program their journeys ahead.

The Met Office issued three yellowish upwind alerts for snowfall and crystal covering the Midlands, bluish England, parts of Northern Ireland, northbound eastbound Wales and sections of Northern Ireland. 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."

Motorists are besides enactment connected precocious alert, with the National Highways issuing an amber terrible snowfall alert for roads crossed the North East and North West of the country. Road users were advised to instrumentality other attraction and debar the country if possible.

Impacted roads included the M26 betwixt J21-J23, the M1 astatine Leeds and Sheffield and the M56 astatine Manchester. It comes arsenic the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) issued the archetypal amber acold upwind wellness alert of the play this week.

The amber informing covers the eastbound and northbound of England, midlands, and Yorkshire and the Humber, with yellowish alerts coming into spot for the South East, South West and London astatine 8am connected Tuesday, lasting until 6pm connected Saturday.

Charity Age UK warned that the conditions could beryllium unsafe for susceptible people, including the elderly. Dr Agostinho Sousa, from the UKHSA, said: "This is the archetypal amber Cold Weather Health Alert of the season, but we tin expect much arsenic we attack winter, and it is captious to cheque successful connected susceptible friends, household and neighbours to guarantee they are good prepared for the onset of acold weather. Particularly if they are aged oregon different astatine accrued risk."