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Flooding in South Yorkshire

 

For those not in the area... It's raining, a lot. Conditions and river levels said to be as bad as when the major floods occurred in Sheffield in June 2007.

The River Don has over topped at Meadowhall, and most major roads in and out of Sheffield are under water (Penistone Road at Hillsborough, Chesterfield Road at Heeley, Langsett Road at Oughtibridge to name a few).

As such, Stagecoach have suspended all services in Sheffield for the remainder of the evening (though some vehicles are still out trying to finish their route some hours after the suspension was put in place) and I gather First are shortly to do likewise.

Additionally the Stagecoach depot at Ecclesfield is at risk of flooding, so vehicles are being moved over to Holbrook and Rawmarsh depots at present.

Ian
 

To update the below:

Ecclesfield depot is flooded. The buses that are going to Rawmarsh are just going to be fuelled (though flooding at Parkgate is now hampering this), and are returning to Ecclesfield where they are being parked in the car park at Morrisons Supermarket (as happened in the 2007 floods too...)

The ones going to Holbrook are staying there for now.

Holbrook depot services 7, 25, 52 and 120 are continuing operate but heavily delayed and diverted. All operations from Ecclesfield are suspended for the rest of the day. All services from Chesterfield were suspended briefly but are now starting to operate.

Ian

Ian


On Thursday, November 7, 2019, ian@yorkshirebus <yorkshirebus@...> wrote:
> For those not in the area... It's raining, a lot. Conditions and river levels said to be as bad as when the major floods occurred in Sheffield in June 2007.
>
> The River Don has over topped at Meadowhall, and most major roads in and out of Sheffield are under water (Penistone Road at Hillsborough, Chesterfield Road at Heeley, Langsett Road at Oughtibridge to name a few).
>
> As such, Stagecoach have suspended all services in Sheffield for the remainder of the evening (though some vehicles are still out trying to finish their route some hours after the suspension was put in place) and I gather First are shortly to do likewise.
>
> Additionally the Stagecoach depot at Ecclesfield is at risk of flooding, so vehicles are being moved over to Holbrook and Rawmarsh depots at present.
>
> Ian

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