Dan Matthews, Network Rail operations director, said: “In more remote parts of our network we’re anticipating the storm impact on roads will mean that our own staff will struggle to reach signal boxes and, potentially, to respond to incidents on the railway as they normally would.
“As a result, we and our colleagues in EMR have taken the difficult decision to remove late evening and early morning services.
“We’re really sorry for the impact which this will have on these communities but the safety and wellbeing of passengers and our own teams must come first.”