THE after effects of heavy snowfalls and overnight freezing temperatures means there will be further disruption to services operated by 14 train operating companies today. 

But the following train operators have reported any weather-related problems —  Arriva Trains Wales, c2c, Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry, East Midlands Trains, Grand Central, Hull Trains, Island Line, London Midland, Merseyrail, Northern Rail, ScotRail, Transpennine Express, Wrexham & Shropshire

Other operators have reported the following problems.

 Eurostar
06:55 London St Pancras to Paris will not run.  Customers may travel on the 07:20 London St Pancras to Paris service.
17:35 London St Pancras to Paris will not run.  Customers may travel on the 17:55 London St Pancras to Paris service.
09:07 Paris to London St Pancras service will not run.  Customers may travel on the 09:43 Paris to London St Pancras or 14:43 Paris to Ashford services.
17:43 Paris to London St Pancras service will not run.  Customers may travel on the 18:13 Paris to London St Pancras service.

DESCRIBED by the Meteorological Office as the “worst snow event in Britain since February 1991,” snowfalls continue to cause extensive disruption and cancellation of train services.

National Rail Enquiries’ web site ‘crashed’ due to the huge number of enquiries but is now functioning again.

National Rail Enquiries now advises people not to travel — “if you do decide to travel there is no guarantee that a return service will be able to be provided later today, as further heavy snowfalls are forecast for later this afternoon.”

The following information is now provided.

National Express East Anglia
Services to and from London Liverpool Street and Stratford are being delayed by up to 60 minutes because of signalling problems and broken down trains caused by the poor weather conditions

    An hourly service will run between London Liverpool Street and Norwich
    An hourly service will run between London Liverpool Street an
    Colchester, calling at all stations between Shenfield and Colchester
    Shuttle train services are running between Shenfield and Southend
    between Colchester and Clacton-on-Sea, between Manningtree and
    Harwich Town, between Witham and Braintree and between Wickford and
    Southminster.
   
Stansted Express
Buses are replacing trains between Bishops Stortford and Stansted Airport, with a half-hourly train service between London Liverpool Street and Bishops Stortford

Virgin Trains
Journeys to / from London Euston may be delayed by up to 30 minutes. To ease congestion, some services may be cancelled

South West Trains
All South West Trains services are currently suspended, with the exception of the following routes where a limited train service is running:
    London Waterloo and Woking
    Hampton Court and Surbiton
    London Waterloo circular services via Wimbledon,
    Kingston & Twickenham
    London Waterloo and Reading
    London Waterloo and Windsor & Eton Riverside
    Portsmouth Harbour and Haslemere
    London Waterloo and Bournemouth
    London Waterloo and Southampton
    Bournemouth and Weymouth
    London Waterloo and Salisbury
    Portsmouth Harbour and Southampton
    London Waterloo and Basingstoke

More snow is forecast later today and overnight into Tuesday, spreading from the South East through the Midlands to the North West.

•  In February 1991 the fine powdery snow—which became known as “the wrong kind of snow” — was ingested into electric motors and sliding doors and disrupted many train services.  The present snowfall is of a similar kind.