Here are some important links to keep you informed on 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.

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.

Transpennine Express- operates Manchester Airport services.

Northern Rail - 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.

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.

Fire Services: Online helpful information.

Weather: local and national.

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