Location

Cause

Duration

Edinburgh Waverley

Train derailment

In excess of 40 hours

Huddersfield/Stalybridge

Broken down train

2 hour 7 minutes

Bristol Parkway

Broken down train

2 hours 33 minutes

Walthamstow/Chingford

Broken down train

2 hours 4 minutes

Linlithgow

Broken down train

2 hours 27 minutes

Rhoose

Broken down train

2 hours 10 minutes

Preston/Lancaster

Fatality on the line

4 hours 43 minutes

Frimley

Described as “an operating incident” (?)

11 hours 36 minutes

Outwood (W. Yorks)

Signalling problems

5 hours 18 minutes

Wrexham/Bidston

Broken down train

2 hours 31 minutes

Rhyl/Colwyn Bay

Emergency engineering works

4 hours 52 minutes

Didcot/Reading

Signalling problems

3 hours 40 minutes

Smethwick Rolfe Street

Fatality on the line

2 hours 20 minutes

Fratton

Signalling problems

In excess of 30 hours

Bolton-on-Dearne

Signalling problems

In excess of 12 hours

Glasgow to Ayr

Overhead wire problems

In excess of 10 hours

Par to Newquay

Landslip

Several days closure

Nuneaton to Coventry

Obstruction on the line

3 hours 58  minutes

Glasgow Central/Whifflet

Tree on the line

2 hours 15 minutes

Whitland

Broken down train

4 hours 31 minutes

Millbrook (Southampton)

Emergency engineering works

3 hours 22 minutes

All routes in Scotland

Bad weather

11 hours 35 minutes

Ivybridge (Devon)

Signalling problems

In excess of 2 hours

Liskeard to Looe

No trains fit for service

In excess of 24 hours

Watford Junction

Signalling problems

In excess of 7 hours

Central Trains network

Railwaymen on strike

In excess of 24 hours