ECML Disruption 02/11 - Huntingdon / Edinburgh

[Eastern Farmer]

I have just had a ping from a mate I am waiting to pick him up from the station and he has told me not to bother as his train is delayed/ cancelled. I don’t know what train it were apart from it were an LNER train and would have been out of Kings Cross. I just wondered if anyone had any sort of clue what is going on and if the issues are widespread, as I were planning on travelling on the line at the weekend and obviously my mate’s down there now.
Thanks in advance for any help/insight it is much appreciated.

 

[Banham7]

Damage to the overhead wires in the Biggleswade-Peterborough area. LNER have sent the Lincoln-Kings Cross (1B87) service via Ely and Cambridge, so it sounds pretty bad.

 

[jfollows]

National Rail (https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service-disruptions/huntingdon-20231102/):

Description​

A failure of the electricity supply between Peterborough and Huntingdon is causing major disruption to journeys running between Peterborough and London Kings Cross.

As all lines are currently blocked, services may be cancelled or delayed by up to 90 minutes.

Major disruption is expected until 21:00.

 

[Warrior2852]

Haven't seen a thread on this yet so apologies if there is one, there is currently a major ongoing power failure around Edinburgh, all the signals for quite some distance in all directions are blocked, not sure on what the exact nature of it is or what exactly is broken, I know someone who was offloaded at Linlithgow.

https://twitter.com/NetworkRailSCOT/status/1720121547132637233

We're responding to a loss of power to the electricity supply in the Edinburgh area. Investigations are underway & we will provide a further update as soon as possible. Please check with your service provider for journey updates.

Above image shows current state of the signals on Traksy with all signals at red. https://traksy.uk/live/M+2+SLATEFD/M+1+EDINBUR+-12

 

[Eastern Farmer]

Thank you both, I think I’ll give him a buzz and break the bad news. I don’t know what’s been going on with this sort of area of the line as it seems to have cause more than a few issues recently.

 

[NorthEastern]

I think there’s maybe more than that. No trains in or out of Edinburgh Waverley since around 5pm. Major power failure.

 

[Eastern Farmer]

I presume all is storm related?

 

[NorthEastern]

I presume all is storm related?

Here in Edinburgh it was only raining, today, but there’s so much water lying around that it may have seeped into somewhere important

 

[Max]

Incredibly there is nothing on the LNER website about this...

 

[GuyGibsonVC]

OHL damage around Peterborough and power supply failure at Edinburgh.

LNER have just put out a ‘Do not travel’ instruction from KX to Edinburgh.

I’ve been sat in Newcastle Station for an hour on the 1400 from KX.

 

[Warrior2852]

Haven't seen a thread on this yet so apologies if there is one, there is currently a major ongoing power failure around Edinburgh, all the signals for quite some distance in all directions are blocked, not sure on what the exact nature of it is or what exactly is broken, I know someone who was offloaded at Linlithgow.

https://twitter.com/NetworkRailSCOT/status/1720121547132637233

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Above image shows current state of the signals on Traksy with all signals at red. https://traksy.uk/live/M+2+SLATEFD/M+1+EDINBUR+-12

I had this in a different thread but it's been merged into this one, I had it separate because the Edinburgh issue isn't just ECML related, there's issues on all the lines in the area.

 

[Max]

Incredibly there is nothing on the LNER website about this...

I see this has now been rectified. Perhaps they saw my message!

 

[800001]

I see this has now been rectified. Perhaps they saw my message!

I know this is tongue in cheek, but I really hope control staff are not reading Railforum in disruption like this

 

[Banham7]

Not been great recently with lots of disruption happening in clusters. Only earlier this week when there were 3 majorish incidents in a day on the ECML.

 

[NorthEastern]

Not been great recently with lots of disruption happening in clusters. Only earlier this week when there were 3 majorish incidents in a day on the ECML.

Not to mention the Plessey viaduct ‘event’

 

[357]

You know it's an interesting day on the ECML when you end up on a Grand Central service from Newark to Doncaster! Using an ex EMR unit no less

 

[Banham7]

1B87 has diverted through Cambridge and is heading to Kings Cross through Foxton now. Unsure what service it will intend to form after now.

 

[800001]

1Z99 an LNER Azuma on route to assist with evacuation of 2 GTR/Thameslink services.

 

[KGX]

Is it likely that anything will run north from Kings Cross tonight?

 

[800001]

Is it likely that anything will run north from Kings Cross tonight?

From what I’ve heard only 2 services would depart between now and end of service, and would have to be diesel only.

 

[noddingdonkey]

I'm on 1D81 which is at Sandy (1627 GC ex Kings Cross). 1Z99 sped past a few minutes ago, Guard has announced we should be underway in about 20 mins at slow speed

 

[KGX]

Tag

From what I’ve heard only 2 services would depart between now and end of service, and would have to be diesel only.

Thanks for that. Still some hope!

 

[800001]

Tag

Thanks for that. Still some hope!

Where you heading? As acceptance with EMR, Avanti, Tpe is in place

 

[ainsworth74]

I know this is tongue in cheek, but I really hope control staff are not reading Railforum in disruption like this

Some of them are members of this Forum so you never know!

 

[800001]

Some of them are members of this Forum so you never know!

 

[KGX]

Where you heading? As acceptance with EMR, Avanti, Tpe is in place

North East, but St Pancras is way too busy. Don’t really want to risk relying on TPE after going via the WCML.

 

[43066]

You know it's an interesting day on the ECML when you end up on a Grand Central service from Newark to Doncaster! Using an ex EMR unit no less

In which case there’s a 50/50 chance you’ll make it all the way! Joking aside, best of luck.

 

[Banham7]

2Z99 has appeared at Hitchin.

 

[800001]

North East, but St Pancras is way too busy. Don’t really want to risk relying on TPE after going via the WCML.

Personally I’d be on a Euston to Man Avanti then onto a TPE (if there’s a connection based on next departures) .

 

[londonmidland]

Regarding Edinburgh, a 'big fuse' has blown which is affecting a wide area beyond Edinburgh Waverley.