Major delays from Waterloo

infobleep · 22nd May 2012, 18:03

Hi there. Some friends are over from Germany and I went to London with them today. Big delays at Waterloo due to emergency services dealing with an incident at Wimbledon. Has someone been injured? It's going on until end of service.. Does anyone know any more?

The only luck I have is that I'm not at work because normally I would be travelling back from Harrow and that has 60 minute delays due to overhead wire problems. Apparently according to National Rail Enquiries it's just affecting London Midland and Virgin. Surprised not Southern as they also use the overhead wires.

Paul.S · 22nd May 2012, 18:11

http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=65592

tsr · 22nd May 2012, 18:12

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Originally Posted by infobleep

Hi there. Some friends are over from Germany and I went to London with them today. Big delays at Waterloo due to emergency services dealing with an incident at Wimbledon. Has someone been injured? It's going on until end of service.. Does anyone know any more?

The only luck I have is that I'm not at work because normally I would be travelling back from Harrow and that has 60 minute delays due to overhead wire problems. Apparently according to National Rail Enquiries it's just affecting London Midland and Virgin. Surprised not Southern as they also use the overhead wires.

1. The incident at Wimbledon involved a female needing to be removed by the emergency services after threatening to commit suicide and running on a ledge in the vicinity of the powered tracks. They were successfully removed whilst the power was turned off. The incident was resolved at 1620hrs, power was restored just before 1631hrs and trains are now moving with delays of up to 55 minutes. There have been intermittent minor signalling problems at Waterloo recently, but none are occurring at present.

2. The problem with the overhead lines is closer to Euston, as far as I know, and is not affecting LOROL or SN.

infobleep · 22nd May 2012, 18:50

Unfortunately the 17.00 hadn't left by the time I arrived at 17.40 due to waiting train drew. No room.

So myself and three friends, one of whole six went to subway and waited. Eventually a platform for 17.30 and we headed to it.

Unfortunately it only had 8 carriages and there was no way we could get on.

As I didn't think my friends wanted to go back down to the subway and I didn't know what time the next train was, as nothing on the subway boards, we got on a train to Southampton on the opposite platform. It had free seats.
Whilst on the train I think a fast train to Guildford may have left before us and whilst at Woking, a fratton train zoomed through. In hindsight I should have made my friends go back down the subway and hoped a train was on the board.

Very difficult to know what to do, as information is probably not always so well known until late by the people trying to run he best service they can.

I'm glad no one was killed and I hope get the help they need.

fgwrich · 22nd May 2012, 23:31

And too add to all this, There was a signalling failure outside Wallers Ash this evening which backed up everything heading northbound all the way to Southampton - It took nearly 40 minutes in the end just to get from Winchester to Basingstoke!

tsr · 22nd May 2012, 23:33

Electrical supply problems (cause and specifics unknown) have also been disrupting SWT's services via Sunbury.

Big Jim · 24th May 2012, 14:25

I helped test the Signalling at Waterloo, must've been around 1990 or 91.

fgwrich · 24th May 2012, 21:56

Today was yet again another absolute nightmare on SWT... Severe signalling problems at Axminster this morning leading to SWT truncating the service at Axminster, Then this afternoon Eastleigh PSB had severe problems, combined with the shutting down of Basingstokes 'wonderfull' signalling centre - This then of course led to stock and staff in all the wrong places again services completley up the spout.

Even after buying an hour or so by heading down to a pub near the ferry terminal, i arrived back to a very limited service heading up northbound, so in the end it worked out simpler to get a delayed FGW service to Salisbury and wait for another delayed SWT Service to Basingstoke.

Overall not another good day on the South Western...

lewisrday · 24th May 2012, 22:59

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Originally Posted by fgwrich

Then this afternoon Eastleigh PSB had severe problems, combined with the shutting down of Basingstokes 'wonderfull' signalling centre - This then of course led to stock and staff in all the wrong places again services completley up the spout.

Overall not another good day on the South Western...

I got caught up in this, I got to Waterloo station, saw delays to Southampton services so decided to check NRE which showed delays of up to an hour between Basingstoke and Eastleigh, ended up getting a Pompey train and changing at Havant, turns out the delays had finished by the time I got to Woking, so could have changed there and got in about 30 minutes earlier but didn't want to risk it.

Domeyhead · 25th May 2012, 12:24

I arrived at Bstoke from reading at about 18:10 just as trains began running again. An empty train was brought into platform 1 from the carriage sidings consisting of a couple of class 159s but the announcement said i was going to Porstmouth Harbour, so about a hundred people charged down the subway from Plat 2 (the usual Ports platform) and swarmed on board. However even before it pulled out a class 444 pulled in to platform 2 also destined for Ports Harbour and the two trains more or less left together. I hope the announcement was correct or a lot of angry people got off the DMU in Salisbury!
(At least they could get home directly via Romsey)

22nd May 2012, 18:03	#1
infobleep Member Join Date: 27 Feb 2011 Posts: 244	Major delays from Waterloo Hi there. Some friends are over from Germany and I went to London with them today. Big delays at Waterloo due to emergency services dealing with an incident at Wimbledon. Has someone been injured? It's going on until end of service.. Does anyone know any more? The only luck I have is that I'm not at work because normally I would be travelling back from Harrow and that has 60 minute delays due to overhead wire problems. Apparently according to National Rail Enquiries it's just affecting London Midland and Virgin. Surprised not Southern as they also use the overhead wires.

22nd May 2012, 18:11	#2
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22nd May 2012, 18:50	#4
infobleep Member Join Date: 27 Feb 2011 Posts: 244	Major delays from Waterloo Unfortunately the 17.00 hadn't left by the time I arrived at 17.40 due to waiting train drew. No room. So myself and three friends, one of whole six went to subway and waited. Eventually a platform for 17.30 and we headed to it. Unfortunately it only had 8 carriages and there was no way we could get on. As I didn't think my friends wanted to go back down to the subway and I didn't know what time the next train was, as nothing on the subway boards, we got on a train to Southampton on the opposite platform. It had free seats. Whilst on the train I think a fast train to Guildford may have left before us and whilst at Woking, a fratton train zoomed through. In hindsight I should have made my friends go back down the subway and hoped a train was on the board. Very difficult to know what to do, as information is probably not always so well known until late by the people trying to run he best service they can. I'm glad no one was killed and I hope get the help they need.

22nd May 2012, 23:33	#6
tsr Speed of thought: ~15mph Established Member Join Date: 15 Nov 2011 Location: Beyond the gateline Posts: 2,145	Electrical supply problems (cause and specifics unknown) have also been disrupting SWT's services via Sunbury. __________________ Yellow lines can help your safety. Stand back \| Stay safe Pedants: My avatar pic isn't actually designed to show a temporary speed restriction

22nd May 2012, 23:31	#5
fgwrich Established Member Join Date: 15 Apr 2009 Location: The North (Of The South) Of the Southern Great Western! Posts: 2,351	And too add to all this, There was a signalling failure outside Wallers Ash this evening which backed up everything heading northbound all the way to Southampton - It took nearly 40 minutes in the end just to get from Winchester to Basingstoke!

24th May 2012, 14:25	#7
Big Jim Member Join Date: 8 May 2012 Posts: 38	I helped test the Signalling at Waterloo, must've been around 1990 or 91.

24th May 2012, 21:56	#8
fgwrich Established Member Join Date: 15 Apr 2009 Location: The North (Of The South) Of the Southern Great Western! Posts: 2,351	Today was yet again another absolute nightmare on SWT... Severe signalling problems at Axminster this morning leading to SWT truncating the service at Axminster, Then this afternoon Eastleigh PSB had severe problems, combined with the shutting down of Basingstokes 'wonderfull' signalling centre - This then of course led to stock and staff in all the wrong places again services completley up the spout. Even after buying an hour or so by heading down to a pub near the ferry terminal, i arrived back to a very limited service heading up northbound, so in the end it worked out simpler to get a delayed FGW service to Salisbury and wait for another delayed SWT Service to Basingstoke. Overall not another good day on the South Western...

25th May 2012, 12:24	#10
Domeyhead Member Join Date: 10 Nov 2009 Location: The South Posts: 153	I arrived at Bstoke from reading at about 18:10 just as trains began running again. An empty train was brought into platform 1 from the carriage sidings consisting of a couple of class 159s but the announcement said i was going to Porstmouth Harbour, so about a hundred people charged down the subway from Plat 2 (the usual Ports platform) and swarmed on board. However even before it pulled out a class 444 pulled in to platform 2 also destined for Ports Harbour and the two trains more or less left together. I hope the announcement was correct or a lot of angry people got off the DMU in Salisbury! (At least they could get home directly via Romsey)