Train operators urge passengers to completely avoid rail travel
- Train operators have warned passengers to completely avoid travel as a power failure in Manchester continues to wreak havoc across a large swathe of the rail network.
- Northern rail and TransPennine Express “strongly advised” their customers against commuting, saying there were no replacement buses available for them and East Midlands Railway said passengers would be unable to travel between Sheffield and Liverpool Lime Street.
- It comes as stranded passengers are facing two-hour delays and cancellations across Greater Manchester and the northwest of England.
- National Rail expects the disruption to continue until the end of the day as it works to fix an electricity supply failure at one of its communications centres.
- Companies affected by the disruption include Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, London Northwestern Railway, Lumo, Northern, TransPennine Express, and Transport for Wales.
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