UK travel news: Millions passengers face disruption amid heavy floods
Millions of travellers are expected to travel for Christmas today
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Your support makes all the difference.For the next two weeks, millions of rail passengers will find journeys across Britain difficult. They will be hit by a combination of Network Rail engineering work, strikes and nature.
UK airports will also be busy over the festive period, with millions of passengers expected to pass through on midwinter trips.
Northern has cancelled or curtailed dozens of services, such as from Scarborough to Sheffield and Stoke-on-Trent to Blackpool, mainly ascribed to a shortage of train drivers.
If you're travelling from the Port of Dover today, the last sailing is earlier than usual.
Eurotunnel is running right through Christmas Day, with shuttles every one to three hours. Day trip returns costing £30 are widely available.
But no Eurostar passenger trains will run through the Folkestone-Calais link.
Trains are running as normal again from Three Bridges to Brighton and Lewes in Sussex following an earlier fault.
The Independent's Simon Calder reports on the Christmas Eve rail chaos, on the day before all UK trains shut down:
According to Real Time Trains, the last passenger service on Christmas Eve will be the 11.59pm from Stansted airport to London Liverpool Street.
There is currently a partial closure on the train line between Tonbridge, Kent, and Redhill in Surrey, and an hourly rail replacement bus is running.
If you're travelling around London today, here is everything you need to know about the capital's transport during the festive season.
Many services are finishing far earlier tonight, and there will be reduced service on all Tube lines from around 4pm.
A reduced West Midlands rail service is expected until the end of the day through Birmingham Snow Hill station.
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