Here are some important links to keep you informed on travel, road and weather conditions around the county and country.

Safety Cameras:

Cumbria Road Casualty Reduction Partnership Safety camera sites, schedules and road works.

Cumbria Police:

Web site.

Phone Numbers: Cumbria Police - 01768 891999.

Emergency: 999.

Cumbria County Council:

Online

Highways Hotline: 0845 609 6609

Reporting Road Problems: 01228606060.

Cumbria Tourism

Tourism information, links and news.
Phone: 01539 822222

The AA Road Service:

Road reports online, by text, by email.

The RAC Road Service:

Road assistance online.

Highways Agency:

Real time traffic information.

Environment:

Flooding and more.

24 hr phone line: 0845 988 1188.

Rail information:

National Rail Enquiries: 08457 484950.

National Rail - Live train running and details of planned engineering works.

Virgin Trains - operates mainline London to Scotland services.

First North Western - operates local services including Windermere to Manchester.

Arriva Trains Northern - operates Morecambe to Leeds and Settle to Carlisle services.

The Trainline - Train times, schedules, tickets.

Qjump - Search timetables and buy tickets.

Virgin Value Tickets - use this site to buy cheap advance tickets on mainline Virgin routes.

Network Rail - the company responsible for rail infrastructure.

Bus Traveline:

0870 6082608. Website

Flight information:

Blackpool Airport - the nearest airport to the region with scheduled services to Stansted, Dublin, Belfast and the Isle of Man.

Manchester Airport - international flights to destinations all over the world.

Liverpool John Lennon Airport - flights to European destinations.

Heathrow Airport

Gatwick Airport

London Luton Airport

Stansted Airport

Birmingham Airport

BAA listing of all UK airports

Fire Services:

Online helpful information.

Weather:

local and national.

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