[Durham Giant]

North East cut off again : Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:05 pm  

for the second time in 3 months and the 3rd time this year rain has cut the North East off from the rest of the country yet again.

The A1, A19 and A167 shut so no way to go Noryth to Souuth and vice versa. Then most of the cross country roads also cut.

I have lived up here for 30 years and have never known this to happen before.

Apparently it is is once in a 100 year event.

With it happening 3 times this year does that make it a once in every 33 year event.

I just cannot get my head around the fact that for the sake of a 10 yard stretch of road which regularly floods it just causes absolute chaos.

Re: North East cut off again : Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:34 pm  

Routes to the North East of the country are running just fine my little Englander friend...

Re: North East cut off again : Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:45 pm  

Here we go again

Re: North East cut off again : Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:53 pm  

16:24:19 359.1 International Produce Normanton Departed on FOXBRIDGE WAY

19:26:36 456.2 A1 TYNE AND WEAR NE13 7BW

Re: North East cut off again : Mon Nov 26, 2012 8:16 pm  

Trains running OK to the north east, just come up from Brum to Leeds on the x-Country Glasgow train, someone in the seat across the aisle asked the ticket inspector if it was true that they were terminating at Darlington but his answer was that they were scheduled to go up the East Coast line to Edinburgh and then Glasgow and that was still OK.

On the way down this morning there was no services south of Bristol though

[Durham Giant]

Re: North East cut off again : Mon Nov 26, 2012 8:26 pm  

Big Graeme wrote:

Routes to the North East of the country are running just fine my little Englander friend...

So i must have imagined it when i was driving on the A690 today over a closed A19 whilst listening to the radio that said the A1 was shut at Catterick and was shut north of Newcastle. To then be turned off the A690 because it was shut before working my way through Houghton Le Spring to the A 167 going towards Durham to be turned off because the A167 was shut

Re: North East cut off again : Mon Nov 26, 2012 8:43 pm  

Durham Giant wrote:

So i must have imagined it when i was driving on the A690 today over a closed A19 whilst listening to the radio that said the A1 was shut at Catterick and was shut north of Newcastle. To then be turned off the A690 because it was shut before working my way through Houghton Le Spring to the A 167 going towards Durham to be turned off because the A167 was shut

That wooosh wasn't an RAF pilot on training...

Re: North East cut off again : Mon Nov 26, 2012 9:49 pm  

the poor north east.
we ve had a bit of drizzle down here too the last week or so!!!!

[Durham Giant]

Re: North East cut off again : Mon Nov 26, 2012 10:07 pm  

CORNISH wrote:

the poor north east.
we ve had a bit of drizzle down here too the last week or so!!!!

You should have started a thread then to tell us about it then.


However as there is only one proper road in rural Cornwall it hardly compares with an industrialised NE which relies on it's road infrastructure to get it's workforce to all the call centres and Civil service centres they work in.

Re: North East cut off again : Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:12 am  

Durham Giant wrote:

You should have started a thread then to tell us about it then.

why??
it rains in the uk , places get flooded.thats life.
in the next few weeks i reckon it might snow somewhere in the uk and places will be cut off.hopefully it wont be durhamshire(yes i know it doesnt exist) as it wont be fair on the people being cut off yet again as they are the only people who have suffered so far!!!

im getting so cynical in my old age!!