Hitachi train under test ‘brought down wires’ on GWML
Train services to and from London Paddington have been severely disrupted after overhead wires were damaged by a train near Ealing last night. Railnews has learned that the train involved was a Hitachi Intercity Express under test which ‘brought down the wires’ at Hanwell, according to internal sources, and that it was not being operated by GWR at the time. The incident left a number of other trains stranded in mid-section. Passengers are being urged to find alternative routes into London. Crowds of frustrated commuters have been reported at Reading, and South Western Railway warned that its services to Waterloo are extremely busy.
Network Rail steps up Dawlish resilience planA series of information events will be held in south Devon over the next few weeks, as Network Rail steps up its project to improve the resilience of the weather-threatened railway through Dawlish and Teignmouth. The announcement of the community drop-in sessions has come just two days after a hole nearly two metres wide and deep appeared under the main line at Teignmouth. The line was closed for emergency repairs, prompting Plymouth Labour and Co-operative MP Luke Pollard to say ‘the south west has had enough and I have had enough’. The Department for Transport said the Dawlish project was a ‘national priority’.
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