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theirjourneys being told not to travel unless their journeys are being told not to travel unless theirjourneys are essential and there are no trains at all running out of london's king's cross. across europe, the heatwave has brought deadly wildfires in france, spain, portugal and greece, with thousands forced to flee their homes. and we'll be answering your questions about how to keep cool and safe in these record temperatures. also this lunchtime... pay rises are about to be announced for more than two million public sector workers, including doctors, nurses and teachers. conservat...

Unless your journey being told, don't travel by train unless yourjourney is absolutely necessary. from king's cross in central london there are no trains at all running up the east coast main line today between here and york and leeds. and passengers are also being told, do not travel on other services heading north out of london into the red zone of the met office's weather warning. there are no thameslink or great northern services planned to run north of london all day. the east midlands railway is only running a very limited service today. the rails get a lot hotter than the air does and t...

Things that stand out to you as you take a look, as we mentioned it appears it was a straight-line tracks, the temperatures in montana at the time were around 09 degree and the first thing that sprung to my mind was a very similar amtrak accident that happened on august 6th, 1988, in montana, not too far from where this occurred, that was the result of a track buckle due to heat buckling the train. >> so, wait to pick up on that, what sort of temperatures does it need to be for that sort of buckling to take place? >> the surface temperature of the rail is going to be about 30 degrees higher th...

Those temperatures, all steel, will expand under heat and if there's not a proper neutral rail temperature when that track was laid the track has the tendency to buckle. it can't go left or right, it can raise out of the rail bed and literally flip-flop into an "s" shape. >> something that happened in 1988 this isn't something that we hear about every day, from your professional opinion, how unusual is something like this that we're reporting on this morning in. >> relatively unusual, although tracks generally makes up the majority of most railway derailments like this on a main line, they cou...