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Recurring electrical supply problems on GN?

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Spectacularly poor 3 days for GN around Cambridge. Complete meltdown on Monday evening, no trains to London in the morning peak on Tuesday, two successive cancellations (not) going north in the Tuesday evening peak, and today more significant cancellations/delays in the evening peak apparently due to some electrical issue near Finsbury Park.

Not holding out much hope for the rest of the week at this rate :(

Not a great week for sure. Any idea why the power tripped near Finsbury Park? Are these power supply issues relating to the big outage last year that took out so many 700s?
 
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Not a great week for sure. Any idea why the power tripped near Finsbury Park? Are these power supply issues relating to the big outage last year that took out so many 700s?

There do seem to be a lot of delays put down as being due to “failure of the electricity supply”.
 

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There do seem to be a lot of delays put down as being due to “failure of the electricity supply”.

A 717 had its pan drop (fortunately not too long to fix) earlier this week. This is what makes me wonder if there are some supply issues we need to look out for, as they may happen again.
 

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I understand that there was an electrical fault on one of the units of the 1739 Kings Cross to Kings Lynn service. It terminated at Finsbury Park. I saw a report from some passengers of sparks coming from the middle unit.
 
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