GEML - Track problems Up Main between Maryland and Stratford

[Western Sunset]

Anyone know why all up trains were being diverted via the Up Electric line around midday yesterday (17th) please?

 

[MP33]

I cannot answer the question. However this morning my 8 coach train stopped 50 yards short of the buffers in Platform 14 at Liverpool Street. Last night a 12 coach service that usually leaves from Platform 14 had an announcement for passengers to await a Platform alteration.

 

[Bald Rick]

Anyone know why all up trains were being diverted via the Up Electric line around midday yesterday (17th) please?

Probably track patrolling.

 

[colchesterken]

I have been on Norwich trains which took the loop at Ilford down the side of the flyover and onto the slow lines and back at Bow Junction
Usually see a freight causing problems pulling out or onto the North London line at Stratford

 

[dk1]

Yeah more often than not during the middle of the day it's for patrolling.

 

[TitanMike]

Some kind of track fault in platform 14 at LST preventing 12 coach ttains using it and now a landlsip between Billericay and Wickford!

 

[codesam]

On the Platform 14 thing, was on the 18:41 Liverpool St -> Southminster and they've put up a stop sign about 2 carriages of a 321 (technical measurement) along the platform where the train had stopped and chained something that looks like a sleeper on the track just after it. I couldn't see anything obviously wrong with the track (other than the toilet paper and the... um various things that come along with that)

 

[apinnard]

Ilford flyover is patrolled on foot regularly. When this happens its usually done under Green Zone rules, you'll see GZAC in the signal berths between Stratford and just north of Ilford.

 

[Alfie1014]

Normal for a Monday morning up main blocked for patrolling, I catch the 10:05 ex Clacton regularly and on a Monday it’s always diverted to the Up Electric at Ilford. I believe it’s because there are fewer liners from Felixstowe on A Monday morning so the passenger services can continue with a minimal delay.

 

[Western Sunset]

Thanks guys for all the replies. There were some trackworkers wandering around, tightening bolts etc, so patrolling is probably the answer.

Also I didn't see any up freights (as mentioned in the above post), though I did catch the x4 86s on a down Freightliner which is regular for a Monday.