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Rush hour commuters, holidaymakers and Wimbledon fans face second day of London Victoria rail chaos
Hundreds of thousands of rush hour commuters, holidaymakers and Wimbledon fans face second day of rail chaos at London Victoria after 'catastrophic' signalling failure
- London Victoria set to be hit by delays again today after travel chaos yesterday
- Gatwick Express, Thameslink and Southern journeys will be delayed on Friday
- Hundreds of thousands of passengers were urged not to travel to Britain's second busiest station on Wednesday after major signalling problems
Travel misery is set to hit commuters and holidaymakers again today as the UK's second busiest station is plagued by delays.
The tens of thousands of people who use London Victoria each day are being warned that some Southern, Gatwick Express and Thameslink services could be axed, delayed by up to half an hour or changed.
Already this morning trains from Portsmouth and Southampton into Victoria have been cancelled, plunging commutes into chaos.
All lines have reopened between East Croydon in south London and Victoria after a signalling fault caused havoc on the major commuter route throughout Thursday.
However, delays are expected to roll on until late on Friday.
Major delays saw stations packed out on Thursday after signalling faults. Pictured: East Croydon train station
Services running to and from London Victoria this morning may be cancelled or formed of fewer carriages than usual.
London Victoria is already beginning to fill up on Friday morning as delays are expected to last until late on Friday morning
Twitter users questioned whether they would ever get to work this morning because of continued travel problems at London Victoria
Rail users have been advised to travel as planned on Friday morning and a 'good' service is expected to have resumed by 10am.
'All lines have reopened between East Croydon and London Victoria, following a fault with the signalling system at Streatham Common. However, trains may continue to be cancelled, delayed by up to 30 minutes or revised,' National Rail said.
'We anticipate a good service will be operating by 10:00.'
Commuters took to Twitter to vent after trains were cancelled from first thing in the morning.
Some said they had 'never known' a service so bad in decades of commuting.
Megan Cliff wrote: 'Did not want to wake up at 5:30am to see all the trains into London Victoria being cancelled.'
Twitter users were angered at the service on the Gatwick Express as major delays ran into a second day in London
Regina Holland said: 'Let's see what fresh hell National Rail brings on my commute to London Victoria this morning. Good luck my fellow travellers.'
Another woman asked: 'On a scale of 1-10 how likely am I to get to work on time from Earlswood (Surrey) to London Victoria?'
One man said: 'Its a right kick in the teeth for rail passengers that have endured nothing but unreliability upon the network which has now been substantially fuelled by the chaos caused at London Victoria.'
Ramona Badescu said: 'Why don't you fix this?! We pay enough money for tickets!!! Trains to LGW have been cancelled all week this week. You have become the most unreliable network.'
Bus services were also packed in London after delays at London Victoria. Wimbledon fans and holidaymakers were disrupted
Rail bosses had initially warned disruption would continue until at least 7am on Friday.
The problem with signalling equipment at Streatham Common in south London was discovered at 10.30pm on Wednesday.
The cause of the fault was traced to the failure of the power supply linked to signalling equipment.
Around 210,000 passengers use London Victoria each day.
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