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[Harpo]

Friday 8/8 - Fatality between Hitchin & Stevenage. Customer advice includes:

You can use your ticket to travel at no extra cost on:

• East Midlands Railway services between Peterborough and Ely, and also between Bedford and London St Pancras

Simultaneously there’s a dewirement at Radlett. Customer advice includes:

Sheffield:

You may travel to Doncaster where you should change for a train to London Kings Cross.

Clever stuff.

Incident: Hitchin | National Rail

Major disruption between Peterborough / Cambridge and London expected until 12:00. Find details of all current incidents on National Rail Enquiries.

www.nationalrail.co.uk

Incident: Radlett | National Rail

Major disruption between Bedford and London St Pancras International today. Find details of all current incidents on National Rail Enquiries.

www.nationalrail.co.uk

 

[Bald Rick]

Radlett happened overnight (not a dewirement by the way, I’ve just been past it), and that message would have gone up first, early this morning. Every other Sheffield service is cancelled due to the Up Slow being blocked to electrics, albeit last night when that decision was made it was by no means clear the Up Slow would be open at all. So it is a reasonable suggestion.

Given the Stevenage incident only happened about half an hour ago, it is reasonable to divert ECML passengers to Bedford, and I’m sure the message for Sheffield passengers will be amended or removed soon.