One of London’s busiest train stations has been hit by travel disruption as thousands of people are about to travel for the weekend.
Trains on the West Coast Main Line have ground to a halt during one of the busiest times of the week after a major signalling fault in the Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent area.
It is wreaking havoc on all train companies running services on the route, including Avanti West Coast trains between Manchester and London Euston, with cancellations and significant delays likely.
The disruption is expected to last all day today as engineers try to fix it.
Passengers travelling on Avanti, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, London Northwestern Railway and Northern services should brace for trains being axed, delayed by up to 90 minutes or revised.
Travellers were already feeling the brunt of disruption, with some passengers reportedly stuck on board the 12.53 Euston to Manchester train and not moving.
An NHS worker, who asked not to be named due to her work, told Metro she missed work talk she was due to give at a different hospital after her Euston to Manchester train got stuck and diverted to Nuneaton.
She said: ‘I’m feeling disheartened, I’ve been planning for weeks.
‘And it doesn’t help that I have travelled between manchester and London 6 times in the past 3 weeks, and had to claim money back for every single journey due to cancellations or delays of at least 45 mins.’
Avanti West Coast warned that all of its departures from Euston are suspended due to the fault, including trains to and from Manchester, Liverpool, Scotland and North Wales.
It told people not to try to travel today on any of these routes, and tickets will be accepted tomorrow instead.
Full list of affected routes
- Avanti West Coast services between London Euston and Chester / Edinburgh / Glasgow Central / Holyhead / Liverpool Lime Street / Manchester Piccadilly
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- CrossCountry services between Birmingham New Street / Bournemouth / Bristol Temple Meads / Paignton and Manchester Piccadilly
- East Midlands Railway services between Newark Castle / Nottingham and Crewe
- London Northwestern Railway services between Birmingham New Street and Liverpool Lime Street, between London Euston / Stafford and Crewe
- Northern services between Stoke-on-Trent and Manchester Piccadilly
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