Weather Dislocates British Rail Services

Northern Advocate, 30 January 1940, Page 5

Weather Dislocates British Rail Services

(Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON January 29. T HE WEEK-END WEATHER CAUSED WIDESPREAD RAILWAY HOLD-UPS AND THERE WERE SKELETON SERVICES ONLY ON MOST OF THE LINES.

Thousands of rail and road t the country in the biggest disloca

•avellers are marooned throughout ion of transport for years.

Practically every train in the country is running late. The Scottish services are from 10 to 12 hours behind schedule.

The London-Brighton journey, which normally takes one hour, is

new taking seven hours. Railway stations have exhausted their food supplies, and in the worst places, passengers have been without food for 20 hours.

At least 30 roofs collapsed at Birmingham, rendering homeless 200 people.

Dead In Block, of Ice.

Disclosures concerning Britain’s recent prolonged great freeze, permitted by' the censor, indicate that the deaths totalled hundreds. Fuel, Food Shortages,

Transport chaos has added shortages of fuel and food to the winter’s bitter ohglaujht.

London is cut off from Scotland and North Ireland. Three trains which left a Scottish town and were reported lost were located today in isolated country north of Carlisle, to which they have returned. One carries Scotland’s Sunday newspapers, due at Glasgow at 5 a.m. yesterday. 600,000 Extra Staff. The main railway lines have put on 600,000 extra staff in an effort to restore normal services. Thousands of rail and road travellers are still marooned throughout the country. Practically every train in the country is running late.