Although the overhead line problems affecting the West Coast Main Line have been fixed, there is now another, separate issue affecting the area between Tring and Leighton Buzzard which all Virgin Trains to and from London Euston go through. This is causing delays of up to one hour and the odd cancellation.
A quick look at the live departure boards reveals that the London Euston to Liverpool Lime Street 11:07 is currently running an hour late, as is the 11:56 London to Glasgow service. These issues are also affecting London Midland causing delays of up to thirty minutes on some services. Network Rail have no estimate as to when a normal service will be resumed.
Other problems affecting the railway at the moment are:
- Over-running engineering works between Slateford and Kirknewton (TOC: National Express East Coast, First ScotRail, CrossCountry) due to be resolved by 3pm.
- There was a broken down train between Ascot and Aldershot in the Camberley area (TOC: South West Trains)
In addition, there are 41 seperate engineering projects going on this week to add to these problems. For a full list of these you can go to the National Rail Enquiries website.