How are people getting to Sunderland tomorrow? Roads and railways in NE very dodgy due to floods. ECML is flooded in Darlington area.
I'll be there tomorrow night Travelling up to Newcastle from KX tomorrow morning Rain expected to stop later today so fingers crossed disruption will not be too severe
Stortford - there is a bridge in danger of collapse at Doncaster, so all trains are cancelled from there at the moment.
F*kk. We could use some good support for Arry's first game, and such a must win one. If the NE is such a flood maybe the best would be for the game to be postponed until fans can get there. A Tuesday evening game up there must always be a stretch for many. First game for *Arry home to Villa at a packed LR sounds a lot better!
Live near Wetherby but work in North East for part of each week. I travelled up today but only got as far as Catterick before having to turn round due to the flooding on both the A1 and A19. The forecast is that rain (which is frankly only slightly more than drizzle but is constant) will stop during the night and we will then have 3 days of dry but extremely cold weather. As I arrived back home they said on the radio that they had just managed to open one lane on the A1 going North. As you said both road and rail were completely knackered today I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
Apparently the rail bridge north of Doncaster is reopened. But trains an only do 20 mph on it. Looks like boat or helicopter best bets then.
I'm going to leave it til last minute tomorrow, gauge the weather and then possibly shoot up before the traffic gets too bad.
Utmost respect to anyone even thinking about schlepping to Sunderland on a Tuesday night to see a team that hasn't won all season and hasn't won away for a year. It's typical of modern football's attitude towards fans to schedule a game like this midweek. There are three other London clubs playing teams from the North-West. How hard would it have been to swap them around?
Respect to those who brave that journey in this weather, have only been north of Barnet 5 times in my long life and never overnight.
I travelled home to Dunfermline from Hull earlier today. All round Doncaster and York the fields were like lakes and the rivers really high. I was fortunate, but trains running behind ours were getting delays around York at lunchtime after there'd been some more rain (I had uni in the afternoon so stopped in Edinburgh for a few hours before finishing my journey, so I was in the station when the Kings Cross-Aberdeen turned up at 1645 instead of 1430! Reckon if there's any more rain in that whole area trains could be cancelled. If it's any help for people, if you find on your way that the train is cancelled from Donny onwards and there's no coaches laid on there's a few options to check with station staff before you just head back to London if you have the time for the extended journeys. 1) Donny-Leeds-York (or beyond) - I've had to do Hull-Donny-Leeds-York before when Hull to York and Donny to York were both out of action. It adds about an hour to the journey. If you can get to Leeds the Cross Country trains from Birmingham/Plymouth go through there and then to Newcastle so you might save a bit of that hour. 2) Donny-Selby-York - I think it's the Hull trains services from Kings Cross to Hull that go through Selby. Depending where the flooding is before York they might still be running, and shouldn't add too much time. (maybe 20-30 minutes) 3) Donny-Hull-(Selby-)-York - If Donny to York is out getting to Hull and then across to York shouldn't be a problem as they take different routes into each station, might need a change after Hull at Selby to get to York though. (would be adding at least an hour, if changing at Selby could be an hour and half extra) Just remember to make sure once you get to York that there will be trains on to Newcastle. (There should be as the York-Edinburgh services wouldn't be affected at all by problems south of York)
Could have been a nice gesture if the club laid on complementary coaches for the brave supporters that can make it.
