Major disruption on railways in northern England after Manchester power failure

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Re: Major disruption on railways in northern England after Manchester power failure

« Reply #15 on: August 27, 2026, 19:38:50 »

Just to show this is not at all a local speciality - and it is still August, after all - gare Montparnasse was shot down for most of today by an electricity supply fault in a control room. This happened at 10:30, and at 14:00 it was announced that the fault had been found and recovery started. But from when trains started running at 15:00 there were delays of several hours.

So was that good to get out of the way before the last big end-of-holidays weekend, or was the system just getting in practice?


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