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Wind gusts were predicted to scope up to 60mph successful immoderate areas of Devon and Cornwall, particularly connected the coast
Yellow upwind and rainfall warnings are successful spot crossed Devon and Cornwall arsenic terrible upwind led to stormy seas, cancelled trains and lawsuit disruption.
The Torbay fractional marathon and 10km (6.2 miles) races were cancelled amid information concerns, and immoderate attractions closed for the day.
Wind gusts were predicted to scope 60mph successful immoderate areas.
Meanwhile, obstruction services were suspended arsenic relation Great Western Railway (GWR) confirmed 2 trains carrying passengers were "stranded" betwixt Exeter and Plymouth - 1 astatine Dawlish and different astatine Teignmouth, with the origin unknown.
Greg Martin
Greg Martin captured waves battering South Pier implicit the lighthouse astatine Newlyn harbour successful Cornwall.
A GWR spokesperson said lines betwixt Exeter St David's and Penzance was closed, with 2 trains stranded.
He added: “It’s not yet known wherefore and Hitachi volition request to analyse the origin of immoderate issues to those trains.
“Our precedence is getting passengers moved to the nearest presumption and onwards to implicit their journey.”
He said their proposal to passengers was not to travel, and today's tickets would beryllium valid tomorrow.
All lines were besides blocked betwixt Par and Newquay and betwixt Truro and Falmouth Docks, GWR said.
Elsewhere, sites that closed owed to the upwind included Wildwood carnal parkland successful Ottery St Mary, and the Minack Theatre successful Penzance.
Photographer Greg Martin captured waves battering South Pier and lashing the lighthouse astatine Newlyn harbour successful Cornwall.
The Met Office said the rainfall was expected to easiness during the 2nd fractional of Sunday night.
The upwind informing is spot until 23.59 BST connected Sunday, portion the rainfall informing is owed to extremity connected Monday greeting astatine 09:00.
There were flood alerts connected Sunday successful the River Axe, Rivers Otter and Sid areas and betwixt Dawlish Warren and Seaton, and Start Point and Dawlish Warren.
The upwind caused large disruption to obstruction services
Met Office
The rainfall informing is owed to past until 09:00 connected Monday, the Met Office says
Numerous cancelled events included ParkLive successful Falmouth, Woolacombe formation clean, Torpoint Street Market and the Minack Theatre, perched connected the Cornish cliffs of Porthcurno said connected societal media it had closed owed to precocious winds with summons holders to interaction them directly.
North Devon Yacht Club said: "Sunday's contention is cancelled arsenic determination is simply a terrible upwind informing of gusts to 50mph. Tie your boats down and clasp onto your hats!"
The obstruction enactment betwixt Crediton and Okehampton was closed connected Sunday greeting for much than an hr aft a bid deed a tree, which was felled by beardown winds.
Greg Martin, a lensman from Penzance who captured melodramatic coastal scenes of foamy waves crashing into a pier successful Cornwall, said: "It’s been a grotty time of upwind present successful Penzance and Newlyn today.
"Often, these unnamed storms that stroke successful from the southbound deed america the hardest and though this wasn’t a large storm, the beardown winds and unsmooth seas volition mean radical surviving on the prom volition astir apt beryllium picking seaweed retired of their gardens for days.
"It’s a reminder for america each that wintertime is conscionable astir the corner."
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