The company apologised to passengers and said it would provide road transport where necessary.
By mid-November, the central and northern regions will be covered with snow, making road transport even more difficult.
The speed, flexibility and economy of road transport have caused a precipitous decline in rail freight across the world.
Road transport is only one-third the cost of shipping goods to Pakistan by sea, via Dubai, as happens now.
Even some large scale road transport fleets have switched to natural gas due to the cost effectiveness of the fuel.
The firm said it would try to provide road transport or stop faster trains if there was a "significant wait".
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The Belgian Socialist MEP steering the revised directive through parliament, Said El Khadraoui, said road transport had to be made more sustainable.
The A66 and the A19 could be converted to motorway so better road transport is there, and that'd also give better access to TeesPort.
He singled out "road transport" and aviation, with runway expansion and the growth of cheap air travel, as environmental problems that were "out of control".
Air travel is thought to account for just 6.3% of Britain's greenhouse-gas emissions, compared with around 20% for road transport and 37% for power generation.
But we should also point out that there were other clauses in the treaty whereby Austria undertook to increase the rail infrastructure to make up for any shortfall in road transport.
Among those receiving MBEs are Colin Carter, from Woodbridge, for services to road transport and charity, Linda Hoggarth, from Ipswich for work with disabled people and Susan Jay for mental health care.
Christmas Eve on the rail network saw services from London Paddington towards Exeter and the West of England terminating at Tiverton, with limited road transport continuing to Newton Abbot via Exeter St Davids.
Heavy goods vehicles make up less than 2% of all vehicles but they are responsible for a third of all nitrous-oxide emissions, nearly half of all particulates and a quarter of carbon dioxide generated by road transport.
EIU's index measures the relative costs of doing business in 27 economies by compiling statistics relating to wages, costs for expatriate staff, air travel and subsistence, corporation taxes, perceived corruption levels, office and industrial rents, and road transport.
In addition, the government plans to give the Scots law-making power over the things which are most important to daily life the health service, schools and universities, local government, the Scottish legal system, police and prisons, road transport, and the arts.
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Thousands continue to climb into the backs of the trucks that carry the world's trade across borders, to the fury of the International Road Transport Union, whose members pay fines or even go to jail when their unwanted cargo is discovered.
The right way to deal with greenhouse gases is through economy-wide measures, such as a carbon tax, rather than by picking on road transport, which accounts for only a fifth of all emissions and already pays more in various duties than would be extracted from it through any reasonable level of carbon tax.
Rebels have been using the road to transport weapons and other supplies to the capital.
The third option is to direct part or all of the revenues raised by above-inflation increases in fuel duties to public- and road-transport improvements.
Road and rail transport to ports can be as important as dockside facilities in moving cargo swiftly, for example.
Mr Begg can also take heart from the fact that repeated public opinion surveys have shown that motorists are willing to pay road charges for transport improvements.
The Transport Committee (at 10.05am) has a double-headed session covering road safety, with junior Transport Minister Mike Penning and then moves onto flight time limitations - the acceptable hours for pilots and aircrew.
The first outcome of this agreement is likely to be new powers for local councils, to be announced in next year's white paper on transport, allowing them to earmark the proceeds of road-pricing schemes for local transport.
The revised application included minimal change to the landscape, reduced noise impact, and proposals to improve road safety and public transport connections, he added.
On Friday a meeting was held, involving road operating companies, Transport Scotland officials and the Met Office, to discuss transport preparations for the weekend and early next week.
According to the Venezuelan Society of Transport and Road Engineers, the metropolitan area urgently needs at least 100km of new roads, including the completion of a ring-road first mooted in the 1970s.
He was then promoted in 1994 to minister for local transport and road safety but stood down at the 1997 general election in preference of earning some "serious money" and became director general of the Road Haulage Association.
He told BBC News it was probably, in part, in recognition of his campaigns on human rights - in the late 1970s he attempted to prevent the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador - and his achievements in helping to cut road deaths as a transport minister in the 1980s.
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