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So, I looked out the window to note that it is tipping it down. "Ah, well it is the first day of Wombledon." Thinks I, and gets ready for work, swapping to a heavyweight skirt instead of the lightweight one I was planning on wearing. Splashed up to the station noting that rain is getting heavier.
The train arrived on time, which in itself is a surprise, as we have the clapped out class 142s in service on the line. more of a miracle happened and we arrived at Stockport in good time. I should have started worrying when I saw that the 08:26 instead of being a Cleethorpes service, was in fact, a Sheffield service. The reason for this would become all to obvious later.
Alights at Sheffield and on the way out of the station (into the deluge) noted that there are no trains through to Doncaster. During the day the rain continued to fall, sometimes torrentially, sometimes not. It is only when a link to a page aggregating the Sheffield traffic cams is sent round did we realise just how bad it actually was. But a check of the National Rail Live Departure Board for Sheffield looked ok. It wasn't until Wayne returned sopping wet from the station that we realised that potentially we were stuck. He'd just got to the station as they closed it off. The reason given was that the River Don was in severe danger of bursting its banks.
We could see from the office that the traffic situation in town was getting horrendous. Iwan kindly offered a lift to some of us to Stockport, and at around 4:30 we set off. It took pretty much 2 hours to clear the outskirts of Sheffield. The city was virtually gridlocked.
There were reports that the A57 (Snake Pass road) was closed due to flooding at Rivelin, and the the Penistone road was also closed. It was decided to brave the A57, as it turned out the road was flooded but still passable with care. In places the road was not so much a road as a river.
Finally arrived in Stockport 3 hours after leaving the office, to find my train was delayed by severe weather in the Manchester area. Oh, how I laughed.
If you want to see what Sheffield looked like, there are loads of pictures of the flooding on sites such as flickr.
EDIT: Tuesday morning 6:30am. The National Rail website has this to say: "Due to flooding, Sheffield station has been closed. No replacement road transport is available at this time." Doesn't look good for getting to work.
Alice.
The train arrived on time, which in itself is a surprise, as we have the clapped out class 142s in service on the line. more of a miracle happened and we arrived at Stockport in good time. I should have started worrying when I saw that the 08:26 instead of being a Cleethorpes service, was in fact, a Sheffield service. The reason for this would become all to obvious later.
Alights at Sheffield and on the way out of the station (into the deluge) noted that there are no trains through to Doncaster. During the day the rain continued to fall, sometimes torrentially, sometimes not. It is only when a link to a page aggregating the Sheffield traffic cams is sent round did we realise just how bad it actually was. But a check of the National Rail Live Departure Board for Sheffield looked ok. It wasn't until Wayne returned sopping wet from the station that we realised that potentially we were stuck. He'd just got to the station as they closed it off. The reason given was that the River Don was in severe danger of bursting its banks.
We could see from the office that the traffic situation in town was getting horrendous. Iwan kindly offered a lift to some of us to Stockport, and at around 4:30 we set off. It took pretty much 2 hours to clear the outskirts of Sheffield. The city was virtually gridlocked.
There were reports that the A57 (Snake Pass road) was closed due to flooding at Rivelin, and the the Penistone road was also closed. It was decided to brave the A57, as it turned out the road was flooded but still passable with care. In places the road was not so much a road as a river.
Finally arrived in Stockport 3 hours after leaving the office, to find my train was delayed by severe weather in the Manchester area. Oh, how I laughed.
If you want to see what Sheffield looked like, there are loads of pictures of the flooding on sites such as flickr.
EDIT: Tuesday morning 6:30am. The National Rail website has this to say: "Due to flooding, Sheffield station has been closed. No replacement road transport is available at this time." Doesn't look good for getting to work.
Alice.
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