If I had a quid for each time this has happened 15 miles each side of Huntingdon, I'd not need to pay the fare.
The catenary in this area is 3 or 4 road headspan from Holme all the way to Woolmer - and it's 125mph on the fast lines for nearly all of that distance, down to 115 at Offord, for example, but it's still a bloody fast stretch of line. I've seen failed droppers on several occasions just waiting to be a line-closer in the making. When one line is brought down it almost inevitably affects the adjacent ones, or in some cases like this - all four of them.
I am due to travel through it early tomorrow morning... I assume NR will be in the process of re-stringing it tonight. If not, I can see a long journey tomorrow.