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Greater Anglia trains to London Liverpool Street from Cambridge and Stansted CANCELLED due to lightning damage at Broxbourne

Lightning has hit a signalling system causing severe disruption to west Anglia train services

COMMUTERS are facing travel chaos this morning as trains are CANCELLED after lightning damaged signalling systems.

Lightning  hit the signalling system in the Broxbourne area causing trains to be cancelled in Essex Hertfordshire, Cambridge and London, train operator Greater Anglia has reported.

 Lightning has hit a signalling system causing severe disruption to west Anglia train services
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Lightning has hit a signalling system causing severe disruption to west Anglia train servicesCredit: Alamy

Trains from Bishops Stortford, Stansted Airport and Cambridge to London have been cancelled.

Already this morning 39 services have failed to run and customers are being advised not to travel.

For more information on specific cancellations .

Flooding across the south east is causing transport disruption this morning after half a month's rain fell in just a few hours.

Great Western Railway said flooding is causing disruption at at Newbury and Didcot. Delays and cancellations are affecting services towards London and Oxford.

Transport for London has said two Tube stations in west London were closed due to flooding, as half a months rainfall fell on the south east in just a couple of hours.

There were reports of disruption on the M4.

Fire chiefs advised motorists to avoid driving through flooded roads and turn around as pictures emerged of Maidenhead High Street resembling a swimming pool.

There is more disruption in London due to a planned Tube strike.

No Hammersmith and City line services will run and there will be only a limited service on the Circle line.


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