Welwyn North - 3rd November

Damage to the overhead wires at Welwyn North is causing disruption to trains between Stevenage and London Kings Cross / Moorgate.

Trains may be delayed by up to 60 minutes, cancelled or revised. We anticipate this disruption to continue until approximately 12:00.

Advice for Great Northern Customers:

Trains are running between Welwyn Garden City / Hertford North and London. Services may be diverted via Hertford North. Knebworth and Welwyn North will not be served.

The following timetable will operate:

• 1 Peterborough to London Kings Cross train per hour, in both directions.
• 2 Cambridge to London Kings Cross trains per hour, in both directions.
• 1 Hertford North to Moorgate train per hour (not calling at Bayford or Crews Hill), in both directions. A bus service will call at Stevenage, Watton at Stone, Hertford North, Bayford, Cuffley & Crews Hill.
• 1 Gordon Hill to Moorgate train per hour, in both directions.
• 1 Kings Lynn to Cambridge train per hour, in both directions.

Rail replacement buses are running between Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City calling at Knebworth and Welwyn North, in both directions.

You may also use your ticket on Greater Anglia, Thameslink and Virgin Trains East Coast services via any reasonable route.

To help you plan your journey to your destination or to a nearby station via alternative means. An alternative route map is available here.

Advice for Virgin Trains East Coast Customers:

Train services running to and from these stations may be cancelled, delayed by up to 60 minutes or diverted via Hertford North.

You may use your tickets on:

• East Midlands Trains via any reasonable route
• Thameslink services between Peterborough and London Kings Cross

A map showing alternative route options can be found here.

Advice for Grand Central and Hull Trains Customers

Trains will be diverted via Hertford North extending journey times by up to 25 minutes.

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The following timetable will operate:

• 1 Peterborough to London Kings Cross train per hour, in both directions.
• 2 Cambridge to London Kings Cross trains per hour, in both directions.
• 1 Hertford North to Moorgate train per hour (not calling at Bayford or Crews Hill), in both directions. A bus service will call at Stevenage, Watton at Stone, Hertford North, Bayford, Cuffley & Crews Hill.
• 1 Gordon Hill to Moorgate train per hour, in both directions.
• 1 Kings Lynn to Cambridge train per hour, in both directions.

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philjo said:

Seemed to be a bit of a shambles in miscommunications this morning.

I was lucky - I caught the 07:09 from Letchworth which was about 5 minutes late and running as 12-coaches as normal (arrived in Kings cross around 08:20). I was expecting it would be a fight to board, but the rear section was fairly quiet. I had to stand, but I think there were only 4 of us in the entire doorway and no-one standing along the length of the coach. It looks like the next train to leave Letchworth was at 08:30 !

The website was promising this:


it seems that they didn't mention that the normal stopping patterns would not be altered! I was surprised that the 07:09 service I was on still went non-stop from Letchworth to Kings Cross via Hertford. so a 12 coach service that was relatively empty (i.e. lots of spare standing room available) did not stop at Hitchin or Stevenage - platforms at both stations appeared to be rammed when we went past. I don't think anything towards London called at Ashwell or Baldock for a long period.

I don't know about the later 2 fast services (07:15 and 07:45) from Cambridge - they are usually non-stop after Royston. not sure if they made additional stops or not but nothing was mentioned on the website or journeycheck. It looked like there were no other services running on the Cambridge branch.

In the past there was a well-publicised emergency timetable that both FCC and previously WAGN used for running via the Hertford loop which worked reasonably well. 2tph Cambridge - Kings Cross based on normal semi-fast stopping pattern admittedly this was based on 8 coach running so the present 12 coaches should be an improvement - but looked like this meant that some stations that could not take 12-coach trains such as Baldock were omitted today. Previously there was also an hourly all stations shuttle that would terminate in Stevenage platform 2 so it could turn back north & also allowed non-London passengers to get to Stevenage.

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