'Impassable' - you make it sound like it was 6ft deep out there. I looked out of the window near Capenhurst and there was a light dusting of wet snow. I think you may be over dramatising there.
Running a train over it would have cleared the tracks and 3rd rail easily.
It was obvious at 08:00 there wasn't an issue but still took until nearly midday to get things up and running. Really quite pathetic. Is this is what is expected now every time we get winter weather in winter?
When I say impassible, we’re not talking about heavy snow drifts here, don’t forget.
Heavy icing of the third rail was the issue.
I’m not asking you agree with me, by the way, I can understand and see the frustration, but you can also see why after having 11 units taken out of service last week with shoegear damage, units standed, train evacuated, numerous short formations as a result, that the weather forecast, in line with using forecasts for the conductor rail temperature, that Stadler/the TOC and Network Rail, had to make a decision, regarding the train service, in the end, whether that was the right one, well hindsight is a wonderful thing. I do know, that once the decision was made to run services, that a lot of hard work was done, to get everything back in place as quick as it did.