Overhead wires struck at slough

[Jamiescott1]

Sometime over night the overhead lines were damaged by a train at Slough.
Delays and cancellations today and expected until 9am tomorrow.
After 4 days of strike related disruption now this

 

[dk1]

Sometime over night the overhead lines were damaged by a train at Slough.
Delays and cancellations today and expected until 9am tomorrow.
After 4 days of strike related disruption now this

It never rains…

 

[Jamiescott1]

It never rains…

Haha
We had 3 days of disruption in September due to same issue at Hayes

 

[contrex]

Lots of trouble getting from Stapleton Road to Bath Spa and back this afternoon. Delays and a sudden platform change at Bristol TM.

 

[Deepgreen]

Haha
We had 3 days of disruption in September due to same issue at Hayes

Despite the farcical level of over-engineering of the GWR OHLE system!

 

[Kite159]

Despite the farcical level of over-engineering of the GWR OHLE system!

Although wouldn't the wires at Hayes be the older type which was originally installed for Heathrow with the "nuclear blast" proof wires starting from beyond airport junction?

 

[Benjwri]

Although wouldn't the wires at Hayes be the older type which was originally installed for Heathrow with the "nuclear blast" proof wires starting from beyond airport junction?

Yes, the Hayes wiring was the type where all 4 wires were hung from a single wire, and therefore in that case all lines out of paddington were closed. The disruption yesterday seemed to only take out the fast lines, at least when I was watching on RTT.
Points failure blocking the relief line just outside of Paddington at Ladbrook Grove blocking Down Relief line today, GWML isn't having a good time at the moment.

 

[Jamiescott1]

Including strike days and late start the days following a strike we've had 6 days worth of disruption on gwml

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Due to the reliefs being out of action Liz line services are running on the fasts to Hayes.
Low level Paddington is very busy with announcements that trains will not call at Ealing or Southall (even though they are calling at these stations).