Carlisle weather

[Pancho Regan]

Heads up that Avanti have cancelled all trains north of Preston tomorrow.

This will affect anyone who (like me) for was heading to the game up the west coast mainline.

Bloody hell Glen, sorry to hear that. How frustrating.
Why have they done this?

due to the bad weather forecast

I'm booked on the Skipton to Carlisle route (via Settle) with Northern Trains and no word of cancellations for them yet.

Ah well, I've finally been thwarted so that's game up for me.

Set off walking from home at 8.30am to the bus stop in my village to get to Skipton, through deep snow and blowing a blizzard. Waited for ages with no bus arriving, getting soaked, until finally learning that a bus had slid off the road and all subsequent buses were cancelled.
Trudged back home, resigned to having missed my 09:58 train from Skipton to Carlisle. Was drying out and warming up when I got an alert on my phone informing me that my train was delayed to 10:25.
I looked at the clock and thought I could maybe make it if I drove to Skipton myself.

Scraped the snow off my car and set off.

I got to Skipton station 3 minutes before the train was due, fumbled with my phone to book and pay for the car park, and dashed into the station.
A staff member said "No trains to Leeds or Bradford this morning love".
"That's OK, I'm going to Carlisle" I said.
She pointed at the information screen which read "09:58 train to Carlisle cancelled due to damaged overhead cables".

Ah well, nobody can say I didn't try.

God luck to all you intrepid travellers. Stay safe and give the lads a cheer from me!

[redarmi66]

Heads up that Avanti have cancelled all trains north of Preston tomorrow.

This will affect anyone who (like me) for was heading to the game up the west coast mainline.

Bloody hell Glen, sorry to hear that. How frustrating.
Why have they done this?

due to the bad weather forecast

I'm booked on the Skipton to Carlisle route (via Settle) with Northern Trains and no word of cancellations for them yet.

Ah well, I've finally been thwarted so that's game up for me.

Set off walking from home at 8.30am to the bus stop in my village to get to Skipton, through deep snow and blowing a blizzard. Waited for ages with no bus arriving, getting soaked, until finally learning that a bus had slid off the road and all subsequent buses were cancelled.
Trudged back home, resigned to having missed my 09:58 train from Skipton to Carlisle. Was drying out and warming up when I got an alert on my phone informing me that my train was delayed to 10:25.
I looked at the clock and thought I could maybe make it if I drove to Skipton myself.

Scraped the snow off my car and set off.

I got to Skipton station 3 minutes before the train was due, fumbled with my phone to book and pay for the car park, and dashed into the station.
A staff member said "No trains to Leeds or Bradford this morning love".
"That's OK, I'm going to Carlisle" I said.
She pointed at the information screen which read "09:58 train to Carlisle cancelled due to damaged overhead cables".

Ah well, nobody can say I didn't try.

God luck to all you intrepid travellers. Stay safe and give the lads a cheer from me!

Someone should show this post to the players before kick off. If that isnt extra inspiration then i dont know what is.

[Donnywolf]

Wow , I remembered it as a night game where I worked up there that day and got Hotel stay on.firm

Memory playing up but it was already dark when I met mate in Beehive near Ground 

[Bessie Red]

https://x.com/officialcufc/status/1860281500446372301?t=mZOuGGOY_TJZKts7hs4YOg&s=19

Posted an hour go.

[graingrover]

I remember travelling to my brother’s in Skipton from Brussels for a home game .That Saturday morning the village was cut off by snowfall during the night making it impossible to get out . Donny was fine and the game was played in bright sunshine !
I always smile when pundits say things like ..Donny fans will have travelled a long way for today’s match from South  Yorkshire .Most people on this forum live many miles from Doncaster . .

[GazLaz]

The drive over in the M62 and M6 has been fine. Very wet, but fine. 3hrs pretty much to the second.

[adamtherover]

In town now, rain has stopped!!! Game on!!

[Jimmydee]

At least the A66 was open for the return journey, it was a bit foggy near Scotch corner but we knocked an hour off the trek to the ground.

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

At least the A66 was open for the return journey, it was a bit foggy near Scotch corner but we knocked an hour off the trek to the ground.

A bit 

Certainly tested the attention span that stretch.

[donnievic]

Wasn’t half as bad as I thought it would be when set off this morning just very wet going all way then pretty mild when we got there and then way back just a tad foggy on last bit of a66

[roversdude]

Can’t see why A66 was shut this morning tbh

[adamtherover]

At least the A66 was open for the return journey, it was a bit foggy near Scotch corner but we knocked an hour off the trek to the ground.

A bit 

Certainly tested the attention span that stretch.

friggin hell, Google maps still has it down as closed, so we did the m62 again... Ggrr

[drfchound]

Can’t see why A66 was shut this morning tbh

As was said earlier, the gates to shut off the road were never closed this morning.
A bbc news reporter also confirmed that from the scene.

[roversdude]

Can’t see why A66 was shut this morning tbh

As was said earlier, the gates to shut off the road were never closed this morning.
A bbc news reporter also confirmed that from the scene.

It was a long way to go up to A66 to have to spin round though (having looked on National Highways site) so it was M62 there A66 home

[Donnywolf]

Hearts like lions , every Fan however they got there

Huge respect to every one of them

[adamtherover]

Coming back, the rain was that torrential,  probs for the best we stuck to the m6, still passed 2 cars in the ditch,  not driving to the conditions.. 

[Jimmydee]

At least the A66 was open for the return journey, it was a bit foggy near Scotch corner but we knocked an hour off the trek to the ground.

A bit 

Certainly tested the attention span that stretch.

friggin hell, Google maps still has it down as closed, so we did the m62 again... Ggrr

As I was driving south on the M6, I noticed that the electronic signage didn’t say that the A66 was closed, so I chose to go that way and the road was eerily quiet, it was a old choice or us.

[donnievic]

Coming back, the rain was that torrential,  probs for the best we stuck to the m6, still passed 2 cars in the ditch,  not driving to the conditions.. 

don’t think we had hardly any rain coming back just fog on the a66,google maps still said it was shut but asked national highways on Twitter and they said it opened up again just after 4ish,and back for 7.30

[Janso]

At least the A66 was open for the return journey, it was a bit foggy near Scotch corner but we knocked an hour off the trek to the ground.

A bit 

Certainly tested the attention span that stretch.

friggin hell, Google maps still has it down as closed, so we did the m62 again... Ggrr

As I was driving south on the M6, I noticed that the electronic signage didn’t say that the A66 was closed, so I chose to go that way and the road was eerily quiet, it was a old choice or us.

I did the same, though I saw on twitter that the road had been reopened. Very ropey though, the closer you got to Scotch Mist Corner you got, the worse it was. Not much bothers me when driving but not a fan of fog.

[roversdude]

Possibly the worst fog I’ve driven in