Ten adults and dual children were trapped on a train now that was swept divided in distracted torrents as Storm Frank continued to means massacre in Britain.
The Stagecoach train was engulfed by floodwater in Dailly, South Ayrshire, this afternoon after a circuitously stream breached a banks.
Police, firefighters, coastguard teams, a RNLI and even a Royal Navy hunt and rescue Sea King helicopter were scrambled to a incident.
Dramatic cinema showed a Number 58 train – that was on a diversion from a common lane between Ayr and Girvan – bobbing in low floodwater.
Police Scotland pronounced 4 men, 6 women, a seven-year-old child and a lady aged 5 had been discovered by helicopter and a force’s sea unit.
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Concern: Emergency services had been battling to rescue 12 passengers who were trapped on a Stagecoach train in Dailly, South Ayrshire
Worrying: The automobile was swept divided by a distracted swell this afternoon and puncture services and a Royal Navy attended a scene
Up in a air: Police, firefighters, coastguard teams, a RNLI and a Royal Navy hunt and rescue helicopter were scrambled to a incident
Stuck: It is accepted a automobile attempted to expostulate by a territory of flooded highway and got about median by a floodwater
Helicopter assistance: One declare described a stage as ‘grim’ and pronounced a train ‘looked like it had been pushed into a water’
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Eyewitness Jacqueline Hendry described a stage as ‘grim’ and pronounced a train ‘looked like it had been pushed into a water’.
She told STV: ‘I was flitting in my automobile when we saw a lot of ambulances, glow and police. The train was circuitously adequate submerged and a highway was closed.
‘The train was in roughly finish darkness. It was tough to tell how many were inside, though there were unequivocally people trapped.’
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It is accepted a automobile attempted to expostulate by a territory of flooded highway and got about median by a floodwater before removing stuck.
Another witness, Joanne Clanahan, said: ‘I was out with my gran when we saw what had happened – a train was already stranded when we arrived.
‘At initial we did not know there were people stranded inside. We waited for about an hour though did not see anyone being rescued.’
Other witnesses suggested a Sea King rescue helicopter from HMS Gannet attempted to lift a train out of a water, as a stream turn rose.
Involved: A Sea King helicopter from HMS Gannet, like a one used in a train rescue bid in Ayrshire today
And Rory McAdam, who works during a circuitously garage, told BBC Scotland: ‘The train was hold in a floods down during a river. It was floating and it was trapped opposite a wall.
‘The subsequent thing we listened was that a helicopter had arrived to rescue a people off a bus. The helicopter hovered and was lifting utterly a few people adult during once.’
A Police Scotland orator said: ‘The train was travelling from Girvan to Ayr when it got stranded in H2O in Linfern Road circuitously to a internal golf course.
‘The Royal Navy helicopter airlifted 10 people from a bus. They were taken to Dailly internal encampment centre where they were assessed by medical staff.
‘Two people were taken off a train by officers from Police Scotland’s Marine Unit and have also been taken to a internal encampment centre.’
A orator for Stagecoach said: ‘One of a buses travelling from Girvan to Ayr was concerned in an occurrence circuitously Dailly this afternoon.
‘The road, that was open to trade during a time, was influenced by flooding and we are aiding a puncture services in traffic with a situation.’
It comes as communities opposite Scotland and northern England were besieged by floodwater as Storm Frank brought a month’s value of rain.
Britain’s sixth named charge swept in off a Atlantic overnight and is causing destruction opposite a UK from a south west of England adult to Scotland.
Waterlogged pitch: Residents of Peebles in Scottish Borders keep their spirits adult by carrying a light encourage diversion of football tonight
Out it goes: People in Peebles are perplexing to stop inundate H2O entering their homes tonight after sleet saw a River Tweed detonate a banks
High spirits: People wade by a H2O to get to a White Hart Hotel as a River Nith bursts a banks in Dumfries, Scotland
Devastation: The River Tweed bursts a banks and floods Peebles in a Scottish Borders as Storm Frank batters Scotland
No fun and games today: At Bandon in County Cork, Ireland, there was a surprising stage of a stadium submerged underneath inundate water
Terrifying torrents: There was critical flooding in Ballater in Aberdeenshire after a River Dee detonate a banks
Match postponed: Submerged goalposts can be seen amid inundate H2O on a hinterland of Tadcaster in North Yorkshire today
Unbelievable: Two cars fell plant to floodwater on a M74 near Abington in South Lanarkshire this morning. It came as Storm Frank swept in opposite a Atlantic – battering Britain with winds of adult to 80mph and scarcely a month’s value of rainfall in customarily a singular day in some parts
At sea? Cars were left bobbing in floodwater on a M74 in South Lanarkshire this morning after floods engulfed a motorway. Forecasters have urged residents opposite some areas of Lancashire and Yorkshire to leave their homes amid fears of serve flooding
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Warnings: This striking on a left shows a regions where continue warnings are in place, while a map on a right shows rainfall relocating over a nation from a Atlantic as Storm Frank sweeps in – bringing adult to 6 inches of rain
Residents in Croston, Lancashire, and Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, have been urged to leave their properties amid ‘danger to life’ inundate warnings, while homes in Dumfries and Galloway and Aberdeenshire have also been forlorn after rivers opposite a segment rose aloft ‘than ever recorded’.
Dramatic cinema emerged this afternoon display properties deluged in waist-deep floodwater and cars many underwater.
Orange and red: There are 3 critical inundate warnings, 35 inundate warnings and 124 inundate alerts in place for England and Wales today
As good as Scotland, a charge is also causing destruction elsewhere opposite Britain, utterly in a west, where gale-force winds have uprooted trees, brought motorways to a hindrance and sent vast waves crashing over coastal defences.
Areas including Cornwall, Devon and Wales are now being dejected by winds of adult to 80mph, while flooded communities opposite a North including in Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumbria are fast relentless sleet with already-toppled inundate defences struggling to cope.
The Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol has been sealed to vehicles for customarily a second time in a 151-year story due to high winds, while dual cars fell plant to floodwater on a M74 circuitously Abington in South Lanarkshire this morning after a territory of a motorway was engulfed by floods.
Elsewhere, a lady was harmed after being trapped in her automobile when a tree was blown onto it as she trafficked along a A174 in Middlesbrough, and a A49 circuitously Chorley, Lancashire, was blocked after trees fell opposite a categorical carriageway.
It came as a 40-year-old male was arrested on guess of burglary in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, following reports of looting from inundate victims.
He was arrested after apparently being speckled ‘acting suspiciously’ outward flooded properties, following reports of looters loading white products into vast vans.
Later, military in York pronounced there had been 4 burglaries and one attempted break-in during flood-affected homes in a Huntington Road area.
North Yorkshire Police pronounced there were a serve 7 break-ins reported during chalets and caravans during a site in a city.
All incidents were underneath investigation. Police and a Army were carrying out patrols to encourage residents who were asked to sojourn vigilant.
Residents and business owners are confronting serve wretchedness now as Storm Frank sweeps opposite a United Kingdom – transfer adult to 6 inches of rain.
While Britain is fast winds of adult to 80mph, Hurricane-force winds measuring 12 on a Beaufort Scale are being compared with Storm Frank and will pass over a north of a UK around a day.
In many areas opposite northern England, a belligerent is still jam-packed from prior downpours and stream levels sojourn during record highs – call fears of serve widespread flooding.
Three ‘danger to life’ inundate warnings are in place in Croston, Lancashire, with residents being urged to container adult and leave though delay, while opposite England and Wales some-more than 40 inundate warnings and some-more than 80 reduce turn inundate alerts are in force.
About 5,500 homes are though energy in Scotland as gale-force winds and complicated sleet beat a country, while some-more than 2,000 homes in Northern Ireland suffered overnight blackouts as Frank swept in from a Atlantic.
Western Power Distribution pronounced a engineers had easy electricity to 20,000 homes in a Midlands, Wales and South West, overnight with 3,000 business still cut off. A orator pronounced they had reports from Gloucestershire of energy lines being cut when a trampoline was blown into a wires.
Warnings: This striking on a left shows a probable areas where rivers are high adequate to crack their banks and inundate circuitously communities. The blue dots prove where stream levels are high adequate for probable flooding, while immature dots uncover where stream levels are during a normal level. Red indicates where rivers are subsequent their common levels. Right: A shipping foresee shows a areas that will see storm-force and even hurricane-force winds (red indicates a winds that will strech between 10 and 12 on a Beaufort Wind Scale)
Storm Frank causes carnage: A lady was described as ‘walking wounded’ after being trapped in her automobile when a tree was blown onto it on a A174 circuitously Ormesby Bank in Middlesbrough this morning. It comes as Britain’s sixth named charge arrived in Britain today
Lucky escape: The womanlike motorist of this automobile managed to shun ‘walking wounded’ after a tree came down on her car near Ormesby Bank in Middlesbrough. Forecasters contend 6 inches of sleet and 80mph winds will lash England, Wales and Scotland now due to Storm Frank
Worlds End: People could be seen pumping floodwater out of a pub in Dumfries now after a charge was strike by scarcely a month’s value of rain. Forecasters contend a misfortune of Storm Frank will be felt now though those in a city face a night spent evacuated from flooded homes
Submerged: A automobile had to be deserted in flooding in Newton Stewart now after a H2O rose fast due to a attainment of Storm Frank
Underwater again: Properties and cars were besieged by floodwater in Ballater, Aberdeenshire, now as Storm Frank brought scarcely a month’s value of sleet to tools of Scotland, Cumbria and northern England. The sleet has been accompanied by gusts of adult to 80mph
Help me! A lady is led to reserve in an inflatable rescue vessel after being evacuated from her home in a flooded encampment of Ballater
The customarily way: Rescuers went door-to-door around vessel in Ballater, Aberdeenshire, now as they attempted to leave a many flooded homes
I can’t trust it: Chris Breen stands in his diving fit as his 252 Spares business premises is surrounded by floodwater in Dumfries as a River Nith floods a city following torrential rain. It comes as Storm Frank continues to pass over a nation – transfer a month of rain
Protective gear: A workman wore high-visibility wardrobe as he done his approach down a intensely flooded streets in Dumfries this afternoon
In Ireland, about 13,000 homes sojourn though energy after gusts ripped down trees, holding over energy lines with them.
THINGS WON’T GET BETTER IN 2016
The New Year will not ring in a change as some-more complicated sleet and intensity flooding is on a approach for tools of northern England and western Scotland.
A new rope of inclement continue floating in from a Atlantic is due to strike some of a worst-affected areas already flooded or during risk given of waterlogged belligerent from Friday evening.
And a unsettled continue front will continue over a weekend into a start of a subsequent week with a risk of some-more continue warnings to come.
The Met Office predicts complicated sleet for tools of Northern Ireland, North Wales, The Lake District and a North West, North Yorkshire, a North East and Western Scotland over a weekend.
Forecaster Emma Sharples said: ‘It’s too early to give accurate sum on rainfall over a weekend though some-more complicated sleet is on a way.
‘As we pierce into a dusk and we have some-more information, it will assistance us establish where and when to emanate warnings.
‘There is an unsettled continue front entrance in from a west though it’s not looking utterly as bad as we’ve seen in a past few days – it is looking like a normal continue front that is entrance through.’
More than 60 inundate warnings and 14 alerts have also been released north of a border, while a red continue warning was released overnight for a Isle of Man with adult to 100mm (4in) of sleet coming on high ground.
Powerful winds have already disrupted flights in and out of Belfast International Airport where planes were hold or diverted among gusts of adult to 55 knots, or about 63mph.
Planes have also gifted problems holding off and alighting during both Manchester Airport and Edinburgh Airport today.
In Dumfries, properties have been engulfed with floodwater with thespian cinema display homes and cars underwater.
However, a many flooded business in a whole of a segment – that is strike by a River Nith 3 times a year – has so distant managed to waken itself opposite a waters.
Water is customarily rising around 252 Spares, that sells Land Rover tools and lies during a bottom of tilted White Sands in a Scottish town.
The business has in place a possess worldly inundate complement with gates and self-starting pumps and over a years has spent adult to £4,000 on safeguarding itself opposite a distracted waters.
If a initial complement fails, afterwards a second complement kicks in with a aloft inundate embankment of 5 feet to keep a H2O out.
John Greenwood, who is corner partner of a 30-year-old business with his father David, said: ‘We are dry during a impulse though if a H2O reaches another dual metres or so we will be upstairs with sandwiches.
‘We are unequivocally good prepared, we knew when we bought a business we would have to strengthen it opposite a flooding, given where it is situated.
‘I do not censure anyone for a floods, in an area like this it is inevitable, though we would have favourite to have seen some inundate defences in place in a Whitesands area.
‘Everyone does tend to lift together during a floods, though during a impulse we are concentrating on ourselves, as a other businesses are. Later we will try out and see what we can do to help.
‘We are anticipating to stay dry, though we are some-more disturbed this time than we have been in a past as a floods are coming to be many some-more severe.’
The flooding is coming to be worse in a Dumfries than that of 2009 and 2013, and could transcend some of a misfortune flooding in a town’s history.
Elsewhere, shoppers had a propitious shun after vast panels were ripped from a roof of a code new John Lewis store by gale force winds causing them to pile-up hundreds of feet onto a transport below.
That doesn’t demeanour good: A mobile train is submerged in floodwater as it bobs past a territory residence in a flooded Aberdeen area today
Dramatic: Static caravans were seen floating down a River Dee in Ballater, Aberdeenshire, this afternoon after a internal train park was flooded when a stream detonate a banks. The caravans were shop-worn by a floodwater and waste sent drifting down a distracted torrents
Messing around: A immature family get strike by a vast call as they try and take a transport in complicated winds along Blackpool seafront this afternoon
Gigantic! Huge waves could be seen soaring over a sea defences during a customarily lifelike West Bay in Dorset this afternoon
Going, going, gone: Heidi Griffin from a Birnbeck Regeneration Trust pronounced a north jetty could not be saved and a tumble was ‘nothing we weren’t expecting’. She pronounced a Heritage Lottery Fund bid, that is now being prepared, would be a final possibility to save it
Iconic: Birnbeck Pier in Weston super Mare, Somerset collapsed into a sea now as it succumbed to Storm Frank. The Grade-II listed structure began to tumble detached some-more than 20 years ago though is now in a hazardous state after being dejected by a latest winds of adult to 80mph
Here comes Frank: Britain’s sixth named charge is already causing destruction opposite a country, utterly in a west of England, where gale-force winds have uprooted trees and sent vast waves crashing over coastal defences, including in Porthleven, Cornwall (pictured)
Huge lashings: Large waves dejected a seashore of Porthleven in Cornwall this morning as Storm Frank swept in off a Atlantic. It will pierce scarcely a month’s value of sleet and 80mph winds to many of Britain now before clearing off towards a Continent overnight into Thursday
Choppy: High tides mix with high winds as Storm Frank batters Plymouth Hoe in Devon today. While many of a north has depressed plant to a new storms, forecasters advise a rest of a nation will be influenced by Storm Frank – with flooding and intrusion expected
Seeing a humorous side: A lady and a lady dauntless a clever winds in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, after Storm Frank strike Britain
HEROIC DELIVERY DRIVER RESCUES ELDERLY COUPLE FROM TRAPPED CAR IN 5FT OF FLOODWATER
This is a thespian impulse an aged integrate were saved from their trapped automobile as they were being engulfed by rising floodwater.
Delivery motorist Gary Brewer risked his life swimming into a 5ft inundate in Devon to pound a window and giveaway a span from a vehicle.
The cold H2O was customarily 8 inches from a roof of their Renault Clio when Mr Brewer waded out shortly before noon today.
Firefighter Ben Weedon praised Mr Brewer’s efforts and pronounced a integrate would have drowned if he did not get there when he did.
He said: ‘The integrate were aged and unprotected and had turn trapped in their automobile and couldn’t get out.
‘All 3 were pang a turn of hypothermia due to a cold water. The male done a vital disproportion today.’
The flooding occurred on a highway between Sparkwell and Venton in Devon due to a complicated rainfall following a attainment of Storm Frank.
Help during hand: Emergency services and members of a open assistance giveaway an aged integrate trapped in a automobile now circuitously Sparkwell, Devon
Saved: The H2O was customarily 8 inches from a roof of a couple’s automobile when a smoothness motorist waded out shortly before noon today
Heavy chunks of steel were ripped from a building in Birmingham during 10am, with 4 sections of a roof left sparse along Station Street in a city centre. Afterwards, workers could be seen fibbing down on tip of other panels to stop them floating away.
Hard day during work: Jockey Ruby Walsh was caked in silt after roving during Taunton Racecourse in Somerset this afternoon
Witness John Eley, 30, an bureau workman from Great Barr, Birmingham, said: ‘It’s propitious nobody was killed. That is a bustling street, that is customarily packaged with commuters going to a station. It’s a spectacle nobody was walking by during a time.
‘They were customarily ripped into a atmosphere like something from a Wizard of Oz and they crashed down to a transport below.
‘I watched from my office. we could also see workers fibbing down on tip of other panels on a roof that were entrance lax to stop them floating away.
‘It is a code new building so we would consider it would be safe. It’s a tiny bit annoying for them deliberation it was one of their flagship stores.
‘The categorical thing is that nobody has been harmed or killed as it could have been a lot worse.’
The 250,000 sq ft emporium non-stop on Sep 24 as partial of a Grand Central selling unit above a renovated station.
Shoppers in Liverpool were also left faraway now after a male climbed a 90ft selling centre Christmas tree in impassioned winds.
The daredevil, prisoner on video, was seen climbing a steel Christmas tree – described as a UK’s tallest – in Liverpool city centre.
The sound of utterance winds can be clearly listened in a video though he hangs on and attracts cheers when he manages to strech a star during a top.
One repelled witness can be listened saying: ‘Honestly, if he falls he’s dead.’ Another screams: ‘Oh my god… he needs to get off. we am not examination this child fall.’
Lisa Pinney of a EA pronounced stream levels had been descending though a renewed rainfall increasing a risk of uninformed flooding in already jam-packed areas like Cumbria, Lancashire and Yorkshire.
She sum that determined rainfall in Wales meant there was also now a possibility of flooding in a west and south west of England.
Ms Pinney, a inundate manager, said: ‘Overnight we’ve had some sleet though some-more wind.
‘We’re awaiting some-more sleet now and into a late afternoon, so we’re enlivening people to be aware.
‘Based on a foresee we’ve had, we’re not awaiting to see scenes like we’ve had over a past few days and not see inundate counterclaim over-topping, for example.
‘But we’re wakeful a belligerent opposite a north of England is positively saturated. We’re not complacent.’
She pronounced a group and a partners were operative with communities like those in Appleby, in Cumbria, that has been regularly flooded, to make certain they were as prepared as probable for a uninformed onslaught.
Walking a dog: Holidaymakers and internal residents dauntless a clever winds in Scarborough following a attainment of Storm Frank
Run! A photographer holding cinema of a inclement conditions in Portland, Dorset, now seemed to get hold by a rush of a tide
That contingency be cold! One authority finished adult in a H2O during Weymouth in Dorset now as outrageous waves and high winds lashed a coast
Gushing: A perspective of a Ulls Water in Glenridding, Ullswater, Cumbria, as Frank starts to beat a UK on a approach towards flooded areas
Fast-flowing: Residents and business owners face serve wretchedness now as Storm Frank sweeps opposite a United Kingdom – bringing with it 80mph winds and adult to 6 inches of sleet to already-saturated communities including Ullswater in Glenridding, Cumbria (pictured today)
Murky: Storm Frank was battering a seashore of Plymouth, Devon, now as it swept in off a Atlantic and changed from west towards a east
Crash: Huge waves lashed a seashore of Lyme Regis, Dorset, now as tides and high winds sum interjection to a attainment of Storm Frank
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