Rail commuters into King's Cross face more disruption

Commuters faced disruption again today after journeys into London were affected by collapsed overhead power lines for the second time in a week.

Yesterday tens of thousands of rail commuters suffered major disruption into King’s Cross after problems with the overhead power lines at St Neots.

Late on Tuesday night more than one kilometre of 25,000 cables were dragged down after they became caught in the overhead pantograph arm of a passing train.

They crashed across the train and all four lines but there were no injuries.

Stranded passengers were walked along the track to safety from one train and another towed back to Peterborough by a diesel engine.

In London, King’s Cross station remained open all night as passengers trying to get home - including football fans from the Arsenal v Bayern Munich match - refused to leave an East Coast main line train.

The decision was taken to let them stay on the train and in the station all night.

Nine days ago overhead lines collapsed near Radlett causing three days of major disruption into St Pancras International station.

Network Rail said yesterday that it would take a couple of days to repair the line but expected to have a full service running by 6am today.

Repairs will continue tonight so services will again not run between 10pm tonight and 6am on Friday.