According to Great Western Railway (GWR), all lines are blocked at West Ealing in west London due to an ongoing incident that is affecting services to and from London Paddington
Festival-goers travelling to Glastonbury could face major train delays today as “emergency services are dealing with an incident near the railway”.
According to Great Western Railway (GWR), all lines are blocked at West Ealing in west London due to an ongoing incident that is affecting services to and from London Paddington, which is on the route serving Castle Cary, the nearest station to Glastonbury Festival.
This has led to several trains being cancelled, including the 8.38am departure from the capital to Castle Cary. Passengers are being warned to expect disruption until midday as thousands head to Glastonbury for the iconic music festival.
GWR said earlier this month that it planned to provide more than 28,600 seats on trains from London Paddington to Castle Cary between Wednesday and Friday for festivalgoers. It warned that early and mid-morning trains on Wednesday and Thursday were almost fully booked.
The warning comes as health bosses said the UK heatwave will come to an end on Friday and fall by up to 9C across the country.
According to the Met Office, a band of rain moves in from the west, and slowly works its way across Merseyside, Lancashire, Cumbria among other parts.
The mercury is dropping though, and it’ll be the coldest day for a while on Saturday. The change in temperature will be obvious for many, particularly those in Scotland – where the mercury exceeded 25C across the Scottish Borders on Tuesday.
But on Saturday, it will be between 8C and 16C across Scotland. The coldest areas, at 8C, will be in the Scottish Highlands, where Scots enjoyed temperatures of 17C on Tuesday afternoon. Even in the south of England, where the mercury reached 30C in Chertsey, Surrey, on Tuesday, temperatures will also be in the teens.
Alex Deakin, meteorologist at the Met Office, says in a YouTube video on the service’s channel: “There is still a lot of fine weather around (on Saturday) and then on Sunday, as that weather system starts to clear, there is the potential for some heavy showers across parts of the south, as well as across northern Scotland.
“The breeze coming in from the west or the northwest brings plenty more showers on both Saturday and Sunday, although by Sunday, that first low should finally be starting to clear away a little bit. Generally speaking, we’re back much closer to average [temperatures] for the weekend across much of the UK. Temperatures will be much closer to average as we head through the end of June.”