A number of incidents between Hitchin and Finsbury Park means lines are disrupted. Trains running between these stations may be delayed by up to 20 minutes or cancelled.
Disruption is expected until 20:00.
LNER Customer Advice:
Tickets will be accepted on Great Northern and Thameslink services between Peterborough and London Kings Cross.
Great Northern & Thameslink Customer Advice
Please travel later this afternoon / evening if possible, and if you do travel, please allow plenty of extra time to complete your journey. Be aware your journey may involve several changes to your planned route.
A major signalling system fault has been reported in the Potters Bar area.
This is disrupting all trains between Stevenage and Finsbury Park on the route through Welwyn Garden City.
Trains are likely to be cancelled, diverted away from the area or revised to complete only parts of their normal journeys.
For trains that are already on this part of the route, we expect there will be severe delays.
Staff have also been advised of a points issue at Hitchin.
At this time some services from Peterborough / Letchworth Garden City will not be able to call at Hitchin for journeys towards London. Please check journey planners before departure.
If you require Hitchin, please travel on to Stevenage, and travel back to Hitchin on a train in the opposite direction.
Ticket acceptance in place to help you complete your journey:
- London Underground on any reasonable route
- London Overground on any reasonable route, including Highbury & Islington
- Greater Anglia services, including London Liverpool Street and Cambridge
- London Buses on any route between central and North London
- LNER via any reasonable route
- Mutually between Thameslink and Great Northern services
Local bus routes that will aid your journey, your ticket will be accepted on these services at no extra charge:
Arriva Southern Counties
- 55 between Stevenage and Letchworth
- 97 between Hitchin and Letchworth
- 98 between Hitchin, Letchworth, and Baldock
- 100 / 101 between Stevenage, Luton Airport and Luton
- 301 between St Albans, Hatfield, Welwyn Garden City and Stevenage
Arriva The Shires / Greenline
- 302 between St Albans, Hatfield and Welwyn Garden City
- 724 between Hertford North, Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield and St Albans
- 601 between Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield, St Albans City, Radlett and the Borehamwood area
- 602 between Hatfield, St Albans and Watford
- 610 between Luton, Harpenden, Hatfield town centre, Welham Green, Brookmans Park and Potters Bar
- 653 between Welwyn Garden City, Hatfield and St Albans
Train services will be affected as follows - our current advice is to travel later if possible.
- Services that would run between London and Peterborough / Cambridge will run via Hertford, this means a reduced service will operate between Finsbury Park and Stevenage
- Trains between London and Ely / Kings Lynn, will run between Cambridge and Ely / Kings Lynn
- Stopper services between London and Cambridge will run between Cambridge and Welwyn Garden City only
If you are travelling towards London, then you may wish to travel on one of the alternative routes across towards Bedford /Luton/ St Albans and take a Thameslink service towards London.
To assist, an alternative route map can be found here. And a live route map can be found here.
Can you tell me more about the incident?
The signalling system fault around the Potters Bar area is disrupting trains in both directions, on all lines. We are working with Network Rail to assess the fault.
The points failure at Hitchin is currently being dealt with by response staff, but it is still causing some congestion, mainly for London-bound trains.
Check before you travel:
You can check your journey using the National Rail Enquiries real-time Journey Planner
Twitter:
If you would like to follow this incident on Twitter, please use #Hitchin
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.
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