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All lanes have reopened on the M11 southbound near Stansted Airport.

However there are still residual delays of around an hour in the area, so make sure to leave yourself extra time if you’re driving to the airport this evening.

The M11 is currently blocked southbound after a collision.

The closure is located between junctions 9 and 8 for Stansted Airport.

Emergency services are currently at the scene, but drivers are already facing 50-minute delays.

Six miles of queues have already built up.

Metro has put together a live blog with all the latest news on Storm Darragh, which is set to batter the UK with 90mph winds starting this evening.

Read more here:

All lanes are now open on the M62 as repairs to a defect on the road surface have completed.

However drivers are now facing 90-minute delays in seven miles of queues which built up during the partial closure.

The M62 has two lanes closed westbound after a road surface defect was found.

The closure is at junction 22 near Denshaw in West Yorkshire.

Drivers are facing 50-minute delays and there are six miles of congestion on the approach.

On Saturday and Sunday, Great Western Railway services will be significantly disrupted.

Special events are taking place across the GWR network on Saturday and they expect services to be extremely busy, particularly around Bath, Bristol and Exeter.

If you are travelling to any of these areas, allow additional time for your journey in case queuing systems are in place.

They also expect significant disruption to services on Sunday, due to crew availability.

A significantly reduced, amended timetable will be in place for services between London and Bristol Temple Meads; London and South Wales, and London and Devon and Cornwall.

Fewer trains will run on these routes, and those that do will be very busy. Services may also be cancelled or delayed at short notice, and you may have to wait to board the next available train.

Because of the late notice changes, and the complexity of updating timetable systems, journey planners will not show changes correctly before Sunday morning.

Storm Darragh is also expected to cause disruption to GWR services over the weekend.

If you have already bought tickets for this Sunday, these will be valid on Monday, or if you no longer wish to travel, you can claim a full refund.

Here’s the current situation on TfL’s Tube and train network:

• Piccadilly line: No service between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge due to difficult track conditions caused by significant leaf fall. Please use the Metropolitan line to complete your journey. Minor delays on the rest of the line due to a shortage of trains
• Jubilee line: Minor delays southbound only due to an earlier person ill on a train at West Hampstead. Good service northbound
• Windrush (Overground): Minor delays between Surrey Quays and Clapham Junction due to an earlier communication fault on Network Rail. Good service on all other routes

Here is the full list of train services suspended or impacted so far due to the predicted impact of Storm Darragh:

Transport for Wales

• Between Llandudno / Llandudno Junction and Blaenau Ffestiniog – suspended on Saturday, December 7
• Between Llandrindod and Shrewsbury – not running from 9pm on Friday
• Between Carmarthen and Pembroke Dock / Milford Haven / Fishguard Harbour – a ‘high number of trains’ won’t run from 9pm on Friday

South Western Railway

• Services between London Waterloo and Salisbury / Exeter St Davids will only run between Basingstoke and Salisbury / Exeter St Davids
• Services between London Waterloo and Weymouth will only operate between Bournemouth and Weymouth from the start of service until around 11:00 on Saturday 7 December, but this is subject to change
• Shuttle services will be in operation between Bournemouth and Weymouth until around 11:00 on Saturday 7 December, but this is also subject to change
• Some services will make additional calls at Basingstoke throughout the day

A planned closure of the M42 for engineering works this weekend has been cancelled due to the potential impact of Storm Darragh.

The works would have seen the motorway closed between junctions 6 and 7a to update roadside signage technology.

LNER is asking passengers travelling to or from Leeds and Wakefield Westgate to put off travelling today if they can.

This is because of the serious damage done to overhead cables when a tree was blown over yesterday evening.

National Rail said: ‘Tickets for travel dated Thursday December 5 and Friday December 6 will be valid for use up to and including Saturday December 7.’

The M6 has one of three lanes closed southbound after a vehicle broke down.

The closure is located between junctions 11 and 10 for Wolverhampton.

Drivers are facing 40-minute delays on top of usual traffic conditions.

A broken down vehicle has caused a westbound lane to be closed on the M62 between J12 and J11.

This is causing congestion west of Manchester, which is expected to last until after 2pm.

Drivers are facing half-hour delays on the A12 northbound after a collision near Colchester.

The crash is causing congestion between J22 and J24, which is expected to clear after 2pm.

Travel have stopped running between the Durham towns of Darlington and Bishop Auckland due to a points failure.

All trains running between these stations have been cancelled, with road transport requested as a replacement.

This is expected to continue until 4.30pm.

Good service has resumed on the Metropolitan line, Mildmay (Overground) and Elizabeth line after earlier delays.

But there is still no service on the Piccadilly line between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge, with severe delays on the rest of the line, due to poor rail conditions caused by leaf fall.

TfL urges passengers to instead use the Metropolitan line.

A toppled tree damaged overhead wires yesterday, causing major disruption on routes between Leeds and Wakefield Westgate in West Yorkshire.

Lines towards London have reopened after the tree was removed and some overhead wires were repaired.

But lines towards York remain closed until further safety checks are complete.

This means major disruption – including cancellations, diversions and 60-minute delays – is expected to last until the end of the day.

Which lines are affected?

• CrossCountry between Edinburgh and Birmingham New Street / Bristol Temple Meads / Plymouth, and between Leeds and Plymouth, and also between Newcastle and Reading
• LNER between Skipton / Bradford Forster Square / Harrogate / Leeds and London Kings Cross
• Northern between Leeds and Knottingley / Doncaster / Sheffield

If your train is delayed or cancelled and you choose not to travel, your unused ticket can be refunded.

If you are travelling and arrive late at your destination due to a cancelled or delayed service, you may be able to claim compensation. You will need to request compensation directly from your train company.

Compensation will depend on:

• which train company you travelled with – different companies have different schemes, but they all offer compensation
• the type of ticket you have – for example, compensation for a single Day ticket is calculated differently than that for a 7-Day Season ticket
• the length of the delay in arriving at your destination – each train company has its own compensation threshold. For example, if you are delayed by over an hour, you will generally receive more compensation than if you were delayed by 15 to 30 minutes

Claims can be made online, or by post using a form that you can download from a train company website or get from a staffed station.

You could also submit your claim through the nationwide Delay Repay scheme.

This morning’s rail chaos has been caused due to a fault with the radio system which drivers and signallers used to communicate with each other.

GSMR allows drivers and signallers to talk to each other even when trains are in deep tunnels, where ordinary radio waves and WiFi signals can’t reach.

It allows signallers to quickly broadcast warnings and messages to drivers, meaning delays can be avoided when issues arise.

It was rolled out to increase safety and reduce costs by replacing inefficient old systems which were expensive to maintain.

Network Rail says 15,000km of railway lines are now covered by GSMR and that around 21,000 drivers and signallers are trained to use the system.

It was installed across the network between 2007 and 2014 at a cost of £1.86billion.