London Paddington: ‘Major’ disruption to Elizabeth line and rail services to Heathrow after overhead cables damaged | Breaking News News
One passenger, who’d spent “nearly THREE hours” simply exterior Paddington, stated “nobody is finding this funny now”, whereas one other apprehensive that it “could be a long night”.
Commuters heading to and from London Paddington confronted “major disruption” on Thursday due to harm to overhead electrical cables.
Trains working to and from the station could also be cancelled or delayed by up to 80 minutes, National Rail stated.
The disruption additionally impacts the Elizabeth line, with services to stations between Paddington and Heathrow and Reading cancelled.
Major disruption is anticipated, National Rail stated, till the tip of the day.
One stranded passenger instructed Sky News: “I’ve been sat for an hour exterior Paddington and [it was] simply introduced one other practice has crashed into an influence line.
“There’ll be thousands of people heading for Heathrow missing flights.”
Chiltern Railways and South Western Railway are accepting tickets on components of their networks.
Customers may also use their tickets on London Underground “via any reasonable route” and components of the London Buses community.
Thameslink, Southeastern and the Docklands Light Railway can even settle for the tickets on some journeys.
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@jessevershed stated on X that she had spent “nearly THREE hours” simply exterior Paddington… Nobody is discovering this humorous now… and poor driver would not have a clue.”
@LynneDoherty_ had been caught for greater than three hours, she stated on X, and “a train was pulled up alongside us over an hour ago to ‘rescue’ us but no evacuation yet! Could be a long night. What is happening???”
Another commuter, @madrisimo77 caught on a practice described in a video posted on X having to go to the motive force to ask to get off to relieve himself. People on the practice have been “getting agitated”, he stated, and have been “kicking doors”.
In a press release on its web site, National Rail stated the issues are down to “damage to the overhead electric wires between London Paddington and Acton Main Line”, that means “all lines are blocked”.
