The morning rush hour hasn’t got off to a great start in London with delays and suspensions across six Underground lines.
The London Overground is facing severe delays after a points failure, while the Northern line is part suspended after an ‘earlier customer incident’.
The District, Jubilee, Metropolitan and Piccadilly lines are also all experiencing minor delays.
On the roads, the M6 is blocked after a vehicle fire which spilled diesel across the carriageway – that’s causing 90-minute delays for drivers.
Meanwhile, commuters are facing a second day of disruption on the rails and roads this morning as weather warnings for snow and ice cover vast swathes of the UK.
Yesterday saw dozens of train services cancelled, delayed or revised as icy tracks and flooding blocked railway lines, along with the weather leading to school closures.
One lane has reopened on the M6 northbound after a vehicle fire and diesel spillage between junction 14 for Stafford and 15 for Stoke-on-Trent.
Lanes one, two and three are still closed while traffic officers keep cleaning up the spilled diesel.
Drivers are experiencing two-hour delays. Scroll down for the official diversion route.
Southeastern services are facing delays and cancellations after a failure of the electricity supply in the Longfield area.
It’s impacting services between London Victoria and Gillingham / Ramsgate / Dover Priory, and also between London Cannon Street and Gillingham.
Network Rail are en route to fix the problem, but it’s thought disruption could last until 11.30am.
There will be fewer trains than normal running between Reading and Gatwick Airport for the rest of the day.
This is because more trains than usual are needing repairs at the same time, meaning there aren’t as many available to run.
The disruption is expected to last all day, and services could be cancelled or revised.
It’s impacting Great Western Railway services, who say: ‘When a train is cancelled Great Western Railway will try and get the next train to call additionally at the stations the cancelled service was supposed to call at.
‘Please speak to the guard of your train if you require further assistance or use the station help points.’
A signal fault near Shepherds Bush has blocked some lines heading in and out of London.
It’s impacting Avanti West Coast, London Northwestern Railway and Southern services to and from Euston and Watford Junction.
Services could be cancelled, altered, or delayed by about 40 minutes, and the disruption is now expected to last until the end of the day.
These are the affected routes:
The situation is getting worse on the M6, with drivers experiencing delays of an hour and a half.
The fire service and traffic officers are still on scene to tackle the vehicle fire and clean up the large diesel spillage.
Here’s the official diversion route, following the hollow triangle symbol:
Theft of signalling cables between Leeds and Huddersfield / Wakefield Kirkgate / Castleford means all lines are blocked.
Here’s how this is impacting Northern and TransPennine Express services:
The disruption is expected to last until midday.
There are currently issues on six Tube lines:
The A30 is closed eastbound after a multi-vehicle collision.
The closure is located between the A389 Bodmin and the A395 Kennards House in Cornwall.
Devon and Cornwall Police are at the scene.
The M6 is closed northbound between junction 14 for Stafford and 15 for Stoke-on-Trent.
Firefighters are at the scene after a vehicle caught fire, and traffic officers are trying to clear up a large diesel spillage.
The spill has spread across all four lanes of the motorway, and drivers are facing hour-long delays.
The M2 has fully reopened between junction 2 for Rochester and 3 for Blue Bell Hill after a crash and vehicle fire.
The road has now been gritted and treated and all lanes, including the exit slip road, are back open.
A railway bridge in Cambridgeshire has been named Britain’s ‘most bashed’ bridge.
The bridge in Stuntney Road, Ely, was hit by vehicles 18 times in 2023-24, Network Rail says.
They say 1,532 bridge strikes in total were reported in the year to April, costing an estimated £20million in delays, cancellations and repairs.
Passenger train services were delayed by the equivalent of more than 100 days due to lorries hitting bridges in the same period, the BBC reports.
The M2 currently has one lane and an exit slip road closed after a crash and vehicle fire earlier this morning.
The closure is in place on the eastbound carriageway between junction 2 for Rochester and 3 Blue Bell Hill, as well as the exit slip road at junction 3.
National Highways is waiting for a gritter to arrive and treat the road before it is fully reopened.
Read more and check out the video here:
Tuesday saw widespread disruption across the UK, with more than 200 school closures reported by the afternoon.
Snowfall was also widely reported, with 12cm of lying snow recorded at Watnall, Nottinghamshire, on Tuesday morning as an Arctic airmass influenced the UK’s weather.
The Met Office said the coldest temperature was recorded at Braemar village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, with the mercury falling to -11.2°C on Tuesday.
Thousands of train passengers suffered disruption on Tuesday morning and a Stagecoach bus in Aberdeenshire toppled onto its side with a passenger on board in icy conditions.
A tree has fallen onto the tracks between Keith and Huntly up in Scotland, blocking all lines between the two stations.
ScotRail trains running between Inverness and Aberdeen are facing cancellations and half-hour delays.
It’s also impacting trains between Inverness and Dundee, and between Huntly and Aberdeen.
The disruption is expected to last until about 10.30am.
Here’s the situation with the yellow weather warnings in place across the UK today.
Most of them expire at 10am, with the warning covering the east coast of England expiring at midday.
Motorway cameras are picking up a crash on the M11 southbound.
It’s located between junction 7 for Harlow and 6 for the M25 interchange.
It already looks like queueing traffic is starting to build on approach.
National Rail says it expects snow and ice across the UK will impact the rail network throughout the morning.
The six Met Office yellow warnings cover all of Northern Ireland, most of Wales, north and west Scotland, and the east coast, central and southern England.
Right now, trains between Llandudno and Blaenau Ffestiniog have been suspended and replaced with buses on the Transport for Wales network.
They explain how snow and ice can affect the railways:
It’s a chaotic start to the morning on the Tube.
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