Monday’s rain continues to cause havoc on UK’s transport networks

The UK’s second busiest airport appears to have no cancellations so far today, but there are delays.

Here are the departing flights that were listed as delayed.

• Iberia/EasyJet/Vueling/British Airways at 9.10am to Barcelona

• EasyJet at 9.10am to Palma de Mallorca

• British Airways at 9.25am to Dublin

• EasyJet at 9.55am to Faro

• British Airways at 11.15am to Izmir 

• British Airways at 1.35pm to Antalya

• EasyJet at 3.15pm to Enfidha

The London airports managed to avoid weather-related issues yesterday during heavy downpours.

A handful of flights were axed at Heathrow yesterday, but these were unrelated to the weather.

Here are the departing flights that appeared as cancelled on the Heathrow Airport departure board shortly before 9am.

Cancellations at Heathrow

• British Airways at 6.40am to Tel Aviv

• British Airways at 7.40am to Bologna

• KLM at 8.40am to Amsterdam

• British Airways at 8.50am to Munich

• British Airways at 9.20am to Milan

• British Airways at 10.25am to Delhi

• British Airways at 12.05pm to Brussels

• British Airways at 12.20pm to Milan

• United Airlines at 12.20pm to San Francisco

• Virgin Atlantic at 12.45pm to Seattle

• British Airways 4.30pm to Rome

• British Airways at 5.15pm to Edinburgh

• British Airways at 6.15pm to Glasgow

Have you been affected? Please email noora.mykkanen@metro.co.uk – we’re keen to hear from you.

This is affecting CrossCountry and South Western Railway (SWR) trains between Bournemouth, London Waterloo and Manchester.

The faulty signal system was spotted between Basingstoke and Winchester.

As a result, trains might be cancelled, revised or delayed by up to 30 minutes.

And the disruption is not expected to clear anytime soon – National Rail estimates it could continue until 4pm.

Here are the affected routes.

• CrossCountry – Manchester Piccadilly / Birmingham New Street and Bournemouth
• South Western Railway – Basingstoke and Bournemouth, between Winchester and Southampton Central / Bournemouth / Poole, and also between London Waterloo and Portsmouth Harbour / Southampton Central / Bournemouth / Weymouth

Commuters were left frustrated at Hackney Wick, east London, after a freight train blocked the tracks at peak rush hour.

Footage shows the container freight train sitting on the tracks on platform two this morning.

An eyewitness said all trains going east were delayed because the container train was sat on the tracks for 20 minutes.

Another signalling issue has hit the railway network – this time at Maryland, east London.

Unfortunately for passengers, Elizabeth line on the London Underground and Greater Anglia trains could be cancelled, delayed by up to 25 minutes or revised.

At the moment, the disruption is expected to clear just after rush hour at 9.30am.

The rest of the Elizabeth line has good service.

Drivers heading to Blackwall Tunnel should allow extra time and patience after a warning over long delays.

Traffic analyst Inrix says the A102 northbound before the tunnel has heavy congestion, stretching to the A2 into Blackheath.

Traffic appears to move slowly in both Blackwall Tunnel South and North.

Train lines towards London from Banbury and Bicester North are blocked after heavy flooding.

This means commuters on Chiltern Railways face delays of up to half an hour, cancellations or diversions.

Trains towards London will skip Bicester North, so passengers should travel from Bicester Village instead, National Rail said.

The disruption is expected to last until 12 midday, but this might be revised.

Passengers can use their tickets on Great Western Railway between Banbury and London.

The affected routes are Birmingham Snow Hill / Birmingham Moor Street / Banbury and London Marylebone.

This is affecting all Avanti West Coast and London Northwestern Railway services running between Rugby and Milton Keynes.

The disruption is set to last throughout the rush hour period, and is predicted to end at around 10am.

National Rail has provided advice for people hoping to travel to or through these stations this morning:

Avanti West Coast

You can use your ticket to travel on the following service at no extra cost:

• CrossCountry, London North Eastern Railway, London Northwestern Railway and TransPennine Trains via any reasonable.
• Great Western Railway and Northern via any reasonable route.

London Northwestern Railway

• You may use your ticket on Avanti West Coast services via any reasonable route.
• Rail replacement transport (supplied via Stagecoach) is operating between Northampton and Milton Keynes Central via Wolverton.

Yesterday’s flooding is still having an impact in Kent and Sussex. Part of the signalling system failed near Wadhurst after heavy rain partially flooded the railway.

Repairs weren’t completed overnight, so Southeastern’s Hastings line won’t be able to run a full service until the end of the day.

An hourly train will run between Hastings and Tonbridge all day today, but services could still be cancelled, delayed by up to 45 minutes, or changed.

The Tube is currently running fairly smoothly this morning, with just some minor delays on three lines.

The Hammersmith & City and Circle lines are both facing minor delays due to a signalling problem in the Hammersmith area.

Meanwhile the District line is also facing minor delays between Earl’s Court and Wimbledon after a signal failure at East Putney.

TfL says there’s good service on the rest of the District line.

Thameslink trains running between Rainham and Luton are currently disrupted, and the points failure is expected to keep causing issues until 9am.

Thameslink services that would normally run between Rainham and Luton, via London Bridge, will be reduced.

They will now operate a shuttle service between Rainham and Dartford.

Journey planners are being updated right now, so short notice service alterations will be taking place.