East Coast Mainline Hit By Severe Delays

Thousands of passengers are facing delays and cancellations on the East Coast Main Line.

East Coast said overhead wire problems were causing problems for a third day between Stevenage and Hitchin.

It had been thought that the problem would be sorted by 7am but on Tuesday morning East Coast said there was now "no estimate" for when a normal service could be resumed.

National Rail tweeted: "No trains through #Hitchin due to further overhead line damage found this morning. Engineers are on site assessing."

Services into and out of Kings Cross were severely delayed or cancelled after the damage on the line that links London with Edinburgh.

East Coast, Grand Central and First Hull Trains are currently starting and terminating at Peterborough, but are not running between Peterborough and London Kings Cross, according to National Rail Enquiries.

First Capital Connect are running shuttle train services between Letchworth Garden City and Cambridge, Biggleswade and Peterborough, and Welwyn Garden City and London Kings Cross.

Replacement buses between Stevenage and Luton and Hertford North, and between Letchworth and Biggleswade and Welwyn Garden City.

East Coast advised passengers to turn to Twitter for more information about the disruption, as well as answers to any queries you may have by using hashtag #Hitchin.

Passengers stuck on their way into London used the service to air their frustrations.

‏@phildoug wrote: "#hitchen all lines 4 lines into London closed on EC train stuck at St Neots, they may turn it round!"

While ‏@noelmc66 said: "Travelling on #eastcoast today? Forget it. Peterborough Stn resembling a (well dressed) refugee camp #chaos."

Tickets have been made valid for other lines and passengers have been advised to stay in London if they are able to postpone their journey.

At least 14 "droppers" - part of the overhead wire - have been broken and contact wires damaged, causing further damage to passing trains.

Network Rail said engineers had been working at the site since Monday afternoon but realised after the first train ran on Tuesday morning that the damage was worse than initially thought.

It was not clear what caused the damage.

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