Due to damage to the overhead electric wires at Kentish Town all lines are currently disrupted. As a result, trains running between London St Pancras International and St Albans may be cancelled, delayed by up to 60 minutes or revised.

Disruption is expected until 17:00.

Customer Advice:

Network Rail are on site and have identified the issue. A team are on their way to fix the damaged wires. They are estimated to arrive at 16:00.

East Midlands Railway

How does this affect my train? Trains running through the area in the North direction are able to run on the slow line with delays of up to 60 minutes. Trains running in the South direction can run as planned, however are also running with delays.

How do I get where I need to be?

East Midlands Railway have managed to source rail replacement buses which will shuttle between Corby and Kettering, where you will be able to connect with intercity services to London St Pancras International. Trains running from Corby to Kettering will be running at 00:12 past the hour. Buses running from Kettering to Corby will be running at 00:05 past the hour.

You can use your ticket to travel between London St Pancras and Bedford with Thameslink, where you can connect with intercity services to complete your journey. Intercity trains will be making additional stops calling at Bedford, Wellingborough and Luton.

Thameslink

Several operational incidents have occurred in the Kentish Town area. This is affecting Thameslink services in both directions to/from Sutton and St Albans.

You can continue to travel using your scheduled route, but please be aware you will be delayed by up to 15 minutes due to the congestion caused from the earlier incidents.

Check our live map here to see if your journey has been affected.

Can you tell me more about the incident?

An operational incident is delaying the journey of a train in this area. This refers to a problem which staff will need to investigate before the train and its crew can continue.

Thameslink may need to do this alongside other partners, such as Network Rail, in order to gather all the details they need. This will let us determine that the train can move safely and the railway can reopen for normal use.

The railway operates on a number of "failsafe" systems. This means that if a possible fault or a procedural issue is detected, trains will be stopped, or there will be restrictions on how they can move. In many cases, no issue will have occurred, but services will stop as a precaution. In all cases, however, a thorough investigation will take place before staff decide that the train can move.

Check before you travel:

You can check your journey using the National Rail Enquiries real-time Journey Planner.

​​​​​​​Compensation:

You may be entitled to compensation if you experience a delay in completing your journey today. Please keep your train ticket and make a note of your journey, as both will be required to support any claim.