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London Overground train cancelled due to an issue with lineside vegetation
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High Dyke
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Tree on the line, according to NRE.
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RailWonderer
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I can confirm, there are overgrowing tree branches just out of Liverpool street that I remember the train hitting and hearing a loud thwack some time ago. They have to cut them every so often, they do grow back.
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Tree on the line at Clapton that fell as a result of strong winds. Damaged the overheads apparently too.
According to NRE this evening though, this particular incident was a tree on the line between Clapton and St James Street. I had a look on Open Train Times and there was indeed a block on the line in between these two stations in the London Bound direction earlier.
Also looks like a couple of the Cheshunt services were turned around to become Enfield's instead of Chingford services at Liverpool Street... no point them just blocking platforms at Liverpool Street.
Edit: Sorry - just beaten to it
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In this case, "Tree on the line" would have been a better reason to give than the more opaque "Line side Vegetation".
I agree. "line side vegetation" might be a valid reporting code for internal delay attribution, but plain English is always good when talking to the public. After all, lineside vegetation could be leaves on the line (unless that goes under "poor adhesion").
As far as I can see, all official public facing outlets referred to it as tree on the line or obstruction on the track. The only public source mentioning line side vegetation is real time trains - presumably from directly translating delay attribution codes.
As much as they are good for screening the tracks and soaking up CO2 are the benefits really outweighed by the constant problems with leaf fall and trees on the line this was not the only major disruption this month caused by a falling tree is the cost of removal or regular pruning that expensive in comparison ?
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