Due to popular demand, commuter chaos this morning has been extended to all-day travel chaos at London’s King’s Cross.
A broken rail in the Finsbury Park area of north London means trains are running at a reduced speed, rippling through the Great Northern and Thameslink lines.
Trains between King’s Cross and Stevenage, about 27 miles north of London, may be cancelled, delayed by half an hour and won’t stop at particular stations. National Rail says journeys between Moorgate and Hertford North, Hertfordshire, may also take about 30 minutes more than usual.
Elsewhere, South Western Railway warns that some routes in Surrey and Hampshire aren’t running due to ‘overrunning engineering works’.
Even more South West Railway train disruption
A signalling problem between Fratton and Hilsea in Hampshire means trains are slower than usual. They’re all subject to cancellations, delays and time revisions.
The disruption should end by midday.
South West Railway trains ‘cancelled, delayed or revised’
The railway operator says trains heading to Haslemere, a Surrey borough that includes Haslemere and the villages of Shottermill and Grayswood, might be ‘cancelled, delayed or revised’.
This is because of a fault with the ‘electric third rail’, also known as a live rail, which powers trains. Disruptions should ease up by 12pm.
Stevenage and London King’s Cross disruption to last ‘until the end of the day’
Railway tracks are, well, a pretty vital part of making trains run. And National Rail says there is some ‘damage to the rail on a set of points in the Finsbury Park area’.
An engineers patch it up, National Rail has imposed a speed restriction on the affected track, reducing the number of trains running between London King’s Cross/Moorgate and Finsbury Park.
This is mainly impacting Great Northern and Thameslink services, with some trains not running:
- From Peterborough towards London King’s Cross
- Between Moorgate and Gordon Hill/Hertford North
Some peak early morning services won’t be running, while routes heading away from Moorgate and Welwyn Garden City/Stevenage will not stop at Harringay or Hornsey.
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