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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/travellers-facing-midwinter-misery.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Passengers wait in a queue in Terminal 4 at Heathrow Airport" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-travellers-facing-midwinter-misery.jpg" alt="Passengers wait in a queue in Terminal 4 at Heathrow Airport"/></a></p>
<p>The midwinter misery facing travellers is showing no signs of letting up, with road and rail journeys disrupted and delays and cancellations continuing at the UK&#8217;s biggest airport.</p>
<p>As passengers struggled to get a flight at Heathrow, Transport Secretary Philip Hammond promised an inquiry into how services had virtually ground to a halt at the west London airport.</p>
<p>Commuters contended with a bitterly cold morning and many domestic rail services were disrupted, with some services cancelled, particularly in Scotland, and others delayed.</p>
<p>There were long queues for Eurostar Channel Tunnel trains at St Pancras station in London, while a number of accidents led to delays on some key road routes.</p>
<p>Some flights have been possible in and out of Heathrow, and Mr Hammond said that night-flight restrictions would be lifted at the airport for the next four days.</p>
<p>But as Heathrow passengers complained about being treated like &#8220;complete idiots&#8221;, Mr Hammond said the airport was likely to be operating at reduced capacity over the next few days.</p>
<p>Heathrow operator BAA admitted there had been problems and the company was &#8220;extremely sorry for those&#8221;.</p>
<p>London mayor Boris Johnson was among those critical of the situation at Heathrow, while shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle said she would have expected Mr Hammond to lead &#8220;a much better, more co-ordinated response&#8221; to the bad weather.</p>
<p>Mr Hammond said the railways were &#8220;broadly operating&#8221; and main roads were open and usable, and David Cameron&#8217;s spokesman said the Prime Minister thought Mr Hammond had handled the disruption to transport effectively.</p>
<p>East Coast Main Line rail services were among those affected by the bad weather, while in southern England there were delays and cancellations for commuters coming into London from South-West England, from Bedfordshire and from East Anglia.</p>
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