Off to London on Monday. Should we go?

Booked a one night break to London for tomorrow. Looking at the weather I wonder if we should cancel. Can you get money back for rail tickets does anyone know?

Travel insurance?

i think trains will run, just heavily delayed.

most trains will run,

its just everyone who calls work tomorrow morning, will say their train wasnt running.

Two or three inches here in south london already. I predict panic, fear and ultimately anarchy tomorrow. Though bits of london will be quite pretty.

You could go here…..

and get one of these

Nah, go for it. Two inches of snow overnight won’t make a lot of difference.

Only go if you are properly equipped, avalanche risk in Oxford/Regent Street area is predicted to be low (1). Place will be choked with abandoned cars with single frozen corpses inside.

lol. For **** sake. Its not doomsday. London will carry on running…won’t be that bad. Christ.

take skis show them how it’s done

I wasn’t worried about the London side of things. More getting there on the train. I didn’t fancy being stuck somewhere with a two year old.

The trains are running into London but when you get there, there’s no buses and very little underground working with loads of disruption on the roads in London.

You may get there but won’t get out of the station.

We’ve not bothered now. My wife is not that keen on London anyway. No doubt we will be constructing some form of snowman later.

I’ve been doing lazy donuts in our works carpark this morning 😈

why the frick is the UNDERGROUND not working?? is it snowing down there?

Horatio….trains start above ground and probably the staff can’t get in to run the trains

my GF has gone into work in London….got off the train and then back on the next one home

In an office of 200 there is currently three of us in… all cyclists who came in on mtbs. 8)

HH – most of the Underground isn’t.

nothing beats that warm glow of righteous satisfaction eh mark?

🙂

You’ll be ok if you sew lots of buttons on your clothes and walk with your thumbs in your lapels, with an exaggerated swagger.

Off out snowman building now. We’ve got a carrot but no coal for the eyes.

HoratioHufnagel I remember the snowbound winter when I had to walk from Ocford circus upto West Hampstead due to no tube and buses all stuck! Actually enjoyed it as there were loads in the same boat and everyone helping each other/in good spirits.

I was surprised, quite a lot of snow in central London. Didn’t see any buses, but the cabbies have made it.

Buses have been cancelled until further notice, most of the tube is up the spout, but on the upside, my garden square looks utterly lovely!

Buses have been cancelled until further notice

That’s never going to bother you surely Captain ?

You’ll be ok if you sew lots of buttons on your clothes and walk with your thumbs in your lapels, with an exaggerated swagger.

LMFAO

Gus, I gave my gentleman’s gentleman the weekend off and he’s unable to get back to town. I even had to pour my own coffee this morning.

Didn’t see any buses, but the cabbies have made it.

The difference presumably (and the same for the tube drivers who “can’t get to work”) is that the bus drivers will get paid anyway 🙄

Snowman built. Off to the cafe in the village for brunch now.

TFL workers are a bunch of work shy wxxxxxxs 😆

Any excuse to wag off huh!

Now I don’t know and I’m only guessing, but I reckon that driving a small black cab around the narrow snowbound streets of London, is somewhat more feasible than driving a large double-decker vehicle in similar conditions.
I also suspect that they pose considerably less risks to pedestrians.

I have to agree with Gus there!

The roads here in the smarter end of town are an utter mess, as the gritters seem to be not enough to stop it from getting snowed up. Snowing pretty heavily again at the moment, meaning that there’s ice/slush etc.

Having driven a 4WD car through this last night, I can perfectly well say that I do not want to see any buses out on the roads in this, for the sake of drivers, passengers and pedestrians/other road users alike!

I agree, buses should be withdrawn altogether. As someone who once drove for a living in London, it was fantastic when they all went on strike. The roads were clear!

TFL should give warning when services are going to be suspended and ensure passengers aren’t left stranded. They should have an action plan for snowy condidtions. If Councils and TFL had a joined up plan this would not be necessary. (the councils didn’t grit key areas which is why TFL withdrwe the service). Like they didn’t have days of warning that this bad weather was on the way!

Councils come from the same mould as TFL. Commercially unfocused! Did you hear that Camden council shut their parks “due to health and safety reasons”. WTF!?

I did my DAS test so next time I get work in London, I won’t be dependent on TFL.

I agree, buses should be withdrawn altogether. As someone who once drove for a living in London, it was fantastic when they all went on strike. The roads were clear!

What a selfish thing to say.