A trespass incident between Southampton Central and Milbrook means all lines are blocked. As a result, trains may be cancelled, delayed or revised. This is expected until 12:00.
CrossCountry Customer Advice:
You can use your ticket at no extra cost on South Western Railway via any reasonable route.
Southern Customer Advice:
Services are unable to run to or from Southampton Central until further notice.
You'll need to allow extra time for your journey this morning. At present, we would advise waiting for the line to reopen however we aren't able to provide a timescale for this yet.
Planning your journey:
Live departure boards can be found here.
You can view a live map of the network here, and you can also see an alternative route guide here. You can also use Soouthern's app to find up-to-date information.
Can you tell me more about the incident?
A trespass incident has been reported in the Southampton area.
In this case, we've needed to stop trains entirely, as it's not safe to run services past the person. Emergency services and Network Rail responders are attending to make sure the person is removed.
South Western Railway Customer Advice:
Whilst teams assist the individual to a place of safety, power to the tracks has been switched off which means that all lines are currently blocked.
To assist you with your journey your ticket will be accepted, at no extra cost to yourself, on the following services:
- CrossCountry between Basingstoke and Bournemouth
- Great Western Railway between Portsmouth stations and Salisbury via Southampton
- Bluestar 1 between Winchester, Shawford, Chandlers Ford, Eastleigh, Southampton Airport Parkway, Swaythling, St Denys and Southampton Central.
- Bluestar 2 between Southampton, St Denys, Swaythling and Eastleigh.
- Bluestar 6 between Southampton, Totton, Ashurst, Brockenhurst and Lymington.
- Bluestar 8, 9, 11 and 12 between Southampton, Millbrook, Redbridge and Totton.
Replacement road transport has been requested to shuttle between Southampton Central and Basingstoke calling at all stations between, and is due to be in place around 09:30.
For further information or onward travel advice please speak to a member of staff or use a station help point.
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.