yesterday, 61% of all the services across the railway network were either delayed or cancelled, largely due to the storm, and that pattern has continued into today. now, many rail operators, like the one running trains from here down to the south—west, are urging passengers not to travel at all. but despite that, paddington is extremely busy because i think many people were caught out yesterday when services were stopped and they got stranded in london and they've been desperately trying to get home, but there haven't been that many trains, so when a train arrives, people desperately rush onto the platform to try and get on board. sometimes they don't succeed and have to come back onto the concourse and wait for further trains, and that can be quite a long wait. why is it taking so long to sort things out? well, i think so many trees came down yesterday in the storm that network rail engineers have had to spend the time checking the track for debris and also for damage. that is taking time, plus, of course, still some warnings in place for wind for the whole