Nice try, but Plymouth/Roscoff is also scuppered by the weather too!   :-(
http://www.brittany-ferries.co.uk/routes/sailing-updates

Interesting... http://rail-fly.com/
Anyone have any inside info on the SaverExpress, FlexiExpress & BusinessExpress FGW^▸ (First Great Western)/HEX fares?

Thanks for the replies. Can confirm what Grahame says above as we'd not long before stopped at Castle Cary where passengers were (about 6 times!) informed that they could only alight from carriages A and B at the front due to a short platform.

I can also confirm that there was only one conversation with the guard, with the negative response, rather than him going off to check with "control" and reporting back etc.

Only 2 of us in my immediate party, but I did recognise other Waterloo refugees on the train (some/all may have been travelling to Exeter anyway of course).

I'm afraid that's not always a given! I was due home on SWT^▸ (South West Trains) from Waterloo to Honiton yesterday, but the SWT line was shut due to 2x fallen trees. We were advised to use the Paddington service instead and that our tickets would still be valid.

Of course, the Paddington line is currently diverted via Yeovil Junction/Honiton anyway. Our train stopped at Honiton for over 10 minutes (single line) but the guard flatly refused to let any Waterloo refugees alight there! We were forced to travel on to Exeter St. Davids where FGW^▸ (First Great Western) promptly laid on a taxi back to Honiton, utter madness!!!