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The UK’s transport secretary has warned that heat-induced disruption to journey will happen “much more frequently”, because the nation’s infrastructure buckles amid an unprecedented heatwave.

“A variety of our infrastructure is simply not constructed for some of these temperatures,” Grant Shapps advised Sky Information on Tuesday.

Temperatures within the UK are forecast to rise to a report 41C on Tuesday, as an uncommon atmospheric sample carries scorching air from southern Europe additional north.

The Met Workplace, the nationwide climate service, mentioned Monday night time was provisionally the UK’s warmest on report.

“Temperatures didn’t fall beneath 25C in locations,” the workplace mentioned in a tweet, which exceeded the earlier highest day by day minimal of 23.9C, recorded in Brighton on August 3 1990.

“On the railways . . . on the bottom these rails will be heating as much as 50C, 60C, or hotter, and meaning they’re in severe hazard of buckling, so you find yourself having to run the trains slower,” Shapps mentioned.

Community Rail and a few prepare operators have issued a “crimson climate warning”, and suggested London commuters to keep away from journey if doable.

The new climate has prompted the cancellation of some rail companies on the East Coast primary line, Thameslink, Nice Northern and East Midlands traces. There are additionally extreme delays and cancellations on the Transport for London Tube companies.

“We’re going to see this much more frequently. We’ve seen lots of the hottest days ever recorded have come within the final 10 to fifteen years, so we’re going to see this extra,” Shapps mentioned.

He added that the UK neeed to improve its infrastructure and it might take “many years . . . to interchange all of it”.