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Post by ibus246 on Feb 23, 2018 8:51:43 GMT
I hope this will actually happen and it’s not just a false alarm. It’s been 5 years since it last snowed bad enough to cause days of disruption down here in Croydon, and since I live within 5 minutes of a station, walking down there and watching trains arcing and struggling in the snow is my entertainment. Let’s just hope the snow doesn’t fall on Sunday...or I’ll be stuck! Why on earth would anyone want days of disruption?! definitely not my type of entertainment
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Post by bn12cny on Feb 23, 2018 8:58:42 GMT
The consensus is building that from Mon night through to next weekend regular heavy snow certainly across Kent & Essex , inc SE & E London. No warnings yet though so met office holding off the hype. Memories being rekindled of a sudden un expected snow storm in Nov 2009 which caused carnage during pm rush hour in London. A 410 vehicle was left abandoned on Hamlet Road SE19 for over 2 days and a 249 slid sideways down Anerley Hill. Luckily no injuries. I can remember from my childhood RT's on the 154 and 157 coming a cropper on Anerley Hill in the snow. I've always had a fascination with extreme weather, -40 in Ulaanbaatar, just awesome! Believe me you don’t weather to be -40c last month in Beijing it was -17c and that is cold, I was wearing 5 layers of clothes but still was like a ice-pole! However it can snow bad in China and transport is not affected one bit! Weather is warmer now it’s 6c and sunny!!!
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Post by capitalomnibus on Feb 23, 2018 10:13:42 GMT
There was an awfully cold night many years ago just after the Metro-Scania Metropolitans were allocated to New Cross garage. At the time this one of a few garages to not have a roof. The did not have antifreeze and many cylinder heads cracked overnight. It proved very difficult to get them back on the road. I guess it may have to be a new cylinder head. Welding them at times do not last. Unless it was the water jacket caps came out.
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Post by capitalomnibus on Feb 23, 2018 10:14:45 GMT
Next week from Monday onwards is looking very interesting - lets hope we don't see a repeat of 2009 with all buses taken off the road. Love the snow!! Me too and I'll be d*mn disappointed if this turns out to be another false alarm. I'm looking forward to meeting this beast from the east, wife thinks I'm mad and she probably does have a point to be fair! Im very doubtful it would happen. I love snow a lot. But within London, don't think it would happen. Would be nice to see at least 2 feet of snow in London.
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Post by RandomBusesGirl on Feb 23, 2018 13:28:20 GMT
Why on earth would anyone want days of disruption?! definitely not my type of entertainment To add some colour to the monotony of life. And also because pictures of buses in the snow look lovely, and London looks clean for once I had it funny with snow as it did fall every year I went to Secondary school, literally years7-11. Yr7 had that one day we got so snowed in that the buses stopped running! My Parents still sent me away to walk to school (we're Polish lol, our schools don't close because of snow), fortunately I ran into a mum of one of girls I knew and She was surprised I didn't know there was no school. I thanked her and rung my Parents who were very skeptical but then they got the very delayed text message about the closure. Every subsequent year they kept sending me away to a closed school (year8 it was 3 days in a row!!) until I brought in letters stating that it will NOT be open 🙄
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Post by vjaska on Feb 23, 2018 13:32:28 GMT
I can remember from my childhood RT's on the 154 and 157 coming a cropper on Anerley Hill in the snow. I've always had a fascination with extreme weather, -40 in Ulaanbaatar, just awesome! Believe me you don’t weather to be -40c last month in Beijing it was -17c and that is cold, I was wearing 5 layers of clothes but still was like a ice-pole! However it can snow bad in China and transport is not affected one bit! Weather is warmer now it’s 6c and sunny!!! Sweden is the same - it can get very cold there and when I was there in December, it snowed on the last night & day yet transport wasn’t affected due to the amount of experience they’ve had with this sort of thing.
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Post by snoggle on Feb 23, 2018 20:50:16 GMT
Sweden is the same - it can get very cold there and when I was there in December, it snowed on the last night & day yet transport wasn’t affected due to the amount of experience they’ve had with this sort of thing. Many years ago I was asked to be "bag man" to someone at LU who was attending a conference in Oslo organised by the Oslo Transport Authority. It was in Winter. I really didn't do any preparation about the weather and forgot to take any jumpers / layers. Needless to say it was a tad cold! One day the warmest it was was -11C. Needless to say all the transport ran fine including way up into the mountains where we foolishly decided to wait for the next train rather than jumping straight back on the one we'd arrived on. That was possibly the coldest 20 minutes I've ever experienced. Apart from seeing behind the scenes of how the Metro ran the highlight was getting to drive an Oslo tram on reserved track up a hill for about 20 minutes - for obvious reasons they wouldn't let us "amateurs" do battle with the traffic on on-street sections.
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Post by twobellstogo on Feb 23, 2018 22:02:40 GMT
Next week from Monday onwards is looking very interesting - lets hope we don't see a repeat of 2009 with all buses taken off the road. Love the snow!! I hate it and am utterly dreading the next fortnight. I loathe February for precisely this reason - it gives us horrible weather when we think we've escaped it. I'm very tempted to jump on a plane and go somewhere warm for a week. Still we're not as cold as Berlin where temperatures are forecast to be down as low as -9C but feeling like -15C due to wind chill. I’m with you, snoggle. Snow is horrible, cold, wet, slippery and dangerous. And it disrupts my normal activities. I’m hoping for little/none.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2018 23:12:18 GMT
Looks like from Monday London will see snow on and off all week. I would fully expect the rural Orpington and Biggin Hill routes to be the first to be suspended from Monday early evening if the forecast is accurate.
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Post by capitalomnibus on Feb 24, 2018 0:01:07 GMT
I hate it and am utterly dreading the next fortnight. I loathe February for precisely this reason - it gives us horrible weather when we think we've escaped it. I'm very tempted to jump on a plane and go somewhere warm for a week. Still we're not as cold as Berlin where temperatures are forecast to be down as low as -9C but feeling like -15C due to wind chill. I’m with you, snoggle. Snow is horrible, cold, wet, slippery and dangerous. And it disrupts my normal activities. I’m hoping for little/none. party pooper
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Post by busaholic on Feb 24, 2018 0:22:15 GMT
My snow favourites used to be Shooter's Hill and Corkscrew Hill: amazing, though, that Bromley garage used to be able to achieve almost a full run-out of buses from the open air storage in RT and RF days, albeit you couldn't tell what route a bus was on, as blinds were never cleared of snow first. You were pretty sure which was a 227 though, unless you were waiting in Chislehurst!
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Post by snowman on Feb 24, 2018 14:00:30 GMT
Looks like from Monday London will see snow on and off all week. I would fully expect the rural Orpington and Biggin Hill routes to be the first to be suspended from Monday early evening if the forecast is accurate. Plenty of time to train drivers in how to put snow chains on, but will they ? Blitz spirit or give up looking feeble,.....which will they choose That reminds me Rugby is on, where man-up (not give up) is expected
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2018 14:13:36 GMT
Looking like next week is on! Weather warnings for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Friday could be bad too.
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Post by planesandtrains on Feb 24, 2018 22:05:15 GMT
I heard the dreaded word blizzard for Thursday in the latest long term outlook from the BBC. Never heard that before in recent times.
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Post by snoggle on Feb 25, 2018 0:24:00 GMT
I heard the dreaded word blizzard for Thursday in the latest long term outlook from the BBC. Never heard that before in recent times. Yes I heard that too. Getting mightly fed up now and it hasn't even turned up yet. If we do get a lot of snow then it's going to be very interesting to see how TfL, Network Rail / TOCs and local councils cope. London is not good at coping with severe prolonged snowfall and ice. Will be fascinating to see how cycle lanes / CSHs are cleared of snow. We have new cycle lanes adjacent to footpaths locally and Waltham Forest are notoriously useless at gritting / clearing pavements so if they remain as bad as before then all the cycle paths will be impassable which will bring the pains on I am sure. And remember how bus services fell to bits a few weeks ago when we got some fleeting snow? If we get days and days of it and ongoing freezing temperatures then a lot of people are going to struggle to get anywhere if we replicate the mess that happened a few weeks back. Thameslink's new GN to Southern area services probably won't run after Tuesday either as GTR are already warning of reduced timetables from Tuesday onwards! I know 14 day forecasts are unreliable but this cr*p weather is forecast to last nigh on a fortnight with no sign of any relief at all.
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