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South Western Railway Issues on 29 June 2019

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kevin_roche

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Does anyone know what caused the delays on the lines out of Waterloo yesterday afternoon?
 
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kevin_roche said:
Does anyone know what caused the delays on the lines out of Waterloo yesterday afternoon?
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National Rail enquiries “cleared service disruptions” page shows 3 or 4 separate and random incidents, which all combined to increase disruption over the course of the day. Points failures, trespass, track circuits, bike on line etc, etc...
 
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swt_passenger said:
National Rail enquiries “cleared service disruptions” page shows 3 or 4 separate and random incidents, which all combined to increase disruption over the course of the day. Points failures, trespass, track circuits, bike on line etc, etc...
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Gosh. Thanks for the information.

I ended up almost an hour late getting home because there were no fast trains to Basingstoke on the board when I got to Waterloo. I caught a slow one which was just about to leave but it was eventually overtaken by two fast trains.
 
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The issues that the unions raised when the initial diagrams were offered up came home to roost. For a while all UMS services terminated at Waterloo with passengers told to make their way to Windsor side or platform 7, this was to prevent passengers being on trapped trains.

Looking at it, a lot of it appeared to be heat related, lots of hard down track circuit failures, points problems too as well as (presumably) intoxicated MOP doing silly things.
 
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pompeyfan said:
The issues that the unions raised when the initial diagrams were offered up came home to roost. For a while all UMS services terminated at Waterloo with passengers told to make their way to Windsor side or platform 7, this was to prevent passengers being on trapped trains.

Looking at it, a lot of it appeared to be heat related, lots of hard down track circuit failures, points problems too as well as (presumably) intoxicated MOP doing silly things.
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Is that “Waterloo” above a typo for somewhere else? I assume Clapham Junction?
 
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