Video: A welly weekend as Glastonbury weather threatens Leeds Festival

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Thousands of music fans spilled out of Leeds railway station today on their way to Bramham Park for the Leeds Festival.

Many more made their way in cars, taxis and buses.

Those arriving at Leeds station were weighed down with camping gear, huge rucksacks and large quantities of warm, canned lager – but few were perturbed about the weather forecast for the days ahead.

The BBC forecast appeared the more pessimistic, predicting that on Friday Leeds would be hit by heavy rain and Saturday would be characterised by thundery showers.

The Met Office prediction was less gloomy, predicting heavy rain on Friday – from 10am to 7am – but the forecast for Saturday predicted only clouds.

Whatever the weather, Leeds Festival bosses said they had it covered.

Detailed emergency planning, which has been taking place behind the scenes for months, has been overseen by Leeds Council and the emergency services.

The prospect of the kind of mudbath often seen at the Glastonbury music festival is just one of the scenarios planned for.

Festival bosses reassured music fans they had plans in place to cope with severe weather.

Their comments came after five people were killed and more than 100 injured after a storm hit Pukkelpop festival in Belgium last week.

There was good news for festival-goers and Yorkshire commuters after a union suspended a strike planned by TransPennine Express drivers.