Re the issuing of Special stop Orders surely it would have been known what time approximatley the broken down train would be dragged back to Ealing Brodway, so that special stops could have been issued at Padd for trains to stop after it's arrival. and detraining. After all it's only 7 minutes non stop PAdd to Ealing Broadway.
It's only 7 minutes when everything is working though!
When fast trains and stopping trains are forced through a bottle neck on to one line it can take a lot longer. On the evening in question it was taking some departures from Paddington nearly half an hour.
I'm pretty sure that evening many
HST▸ services were given priority over Turbos just to get them out of the way too.