Millions of rail passengers are again to be hit by travel chaos this Friday morning after an external power outage caused an electricity supply failure at a communications centre in Manchester. The disruption, which began shortly before 2pm on Thursday, has affected signalling and triggered widespread cancellations yesterday, delays and altered services across Greater Manchester and the North West of England.
Further disruptions are in store for Friday as many trains and their crew “are not where they would normally be after this unexpected incident”, National Rail have said.
The outage has impacted several operators, including Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry, East Midlands Railway, London Northwestern Railway, Merseyrail, Northern, TransPennine Express and Transport for Wales. National Rail has warned major disruption will continue until the end of the day, while Northern has cautioned passengers to expect disruption into Friday morning and advised people to avoid travelling before 10am if possible.
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