East Midlands Railway passengers are being warned to expect “significant disruption” to services on Saturday morning (October 28) due to a broken down freight train. The operator first posted just after 8.30am that the break down was disrupting trains between Derby and Nottingham, as well as affecting services between Derby and East Midlands Parkway.
The operator says that the freight is currently unable to be moved at Trent East, warning: “This will cause our services significant disruption this morning. We have no estimate for when the train will be moved.”
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East Midlands Railway has since said that the line between Derby and East Midlands Parkway has reopened, but there are delays of up to 60 minutes on the trains that were stood. Trains are also still unable to run between Derby and Nottingham in both directions.
The operator added: “As soon as the problem is fixed our priority will be to get trains running to their advertised times again.” It’s the second weekend in a row that trains have been affected, with Storm Babet leaving services unable to run last week in the wake of heavy rainfall. We will bring you updates on the latest disruption to services in our blog below.
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Delays still in place
East Midlands Railway says trains on the Sheffield/Nottingham/London St Pancras route are still facing delays of up to 25 minutes.
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Delays also remain on other line
Delays on the Sheffield, Nottingham and London St Pancras route also remain after this morning’s incident. EMR says there will still be delays of up to 45 minutes on this route.
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Line reopened but heavy delays remain
It was announced just after 10,30am that all trains are now able to run, but there will be ongoing delays because of this morning’s disruption. The broken down freight train is now on the move and East Midlands Railway says its priority will be to get train running to their advertised times again. But the operator warned that it does not expected its advertised timetable to resume on the affected routes until 1pm.
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Help expected within next 30 minutes
In an update at 9.50am, East Midlands Railway said: “Network Rail are in contact with the freight train provided and we have been advised that another freight train will have to attach to the broken down train in order for it to move forward, this is expected to be on site in the next 30 minutes.”
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Train being arranged to help broken down one
In its latest update, East Midlands Railway said: “The freight train operator is arranging another train to assist the broken down one at Trent East Junction. We are unable to run trains between Derby and Nottingham in both directions at present.”
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