Storm Darragh leaves trail of destruction as millions sent ‘risk to life’ alert

National Rail has warned of the likelihood of disruption across these train services tomorrow.

CrossCountry has issued a ‘do not travel’ warning, with services cancelled between:

• Edinburgh – Glasgow Central / Aberdeen
• Newcastle – Reading (direct services only)
• Cambridge and Stansted Airport
• Gloucester and Cardiff Central.

South Western Railway will make the following changes to its services:

• London Waterloo – Salisbury / Exeter St Davids will only run between Basingstoke and Salisbury / Exeter St Davids;
• London Waterloo – Weymouth will only operate between London Waterloo and Bournemouth until 11am tomorrow;
• An extremely limited service will run between Bournemouth and Weymouth until 1pm tomorrow.

Great Western Railway will run services with speed restrictions across the network, increasing journey times.

London Northwestern Railway warned the following routes could be affected by the storm:

• London – Crewe
• London – Birmingham
• Birmingham – Liverpool
• Crewe – Stafford via Stoke on Trent.

West Midlands Railway anticipates impacts to all routes in the West Midlands.

Transport for Wales services said some services will be cancelled in southwest Wales, north Wales, the heart of Wales and Cambrian lines.

Cancellations include:

• Llandudno / Llandudno Junction – Blaenau Ffestiniog
• Llandrindod – Shrewsbury
• Carmarthen – Pembroke Dock / Milford Haven / Fishguard Harbour.

ScotRail said there will be a speed restriction between Stranraer and Ayr / Kilmarnock / Glasgow Central.