Commuters faced fresh misery this morning as journeys in and out of London Waterloo were disrupted by faults with the signalling system.
Following weeks of delays and reduced services due to a £800m project to increase capacity the re-opening got off to a rocky start with delays and cancellations expected until midday.
A Network Rail spokesman said: “During the process of testing the complex signalling, we identified an issue in this safety-critical system which we are working to resolve.
“This will take some time to fix and a small number of early passenger trains may be delayed as a result.
“We are working hard to minimise delays to passengers, but safely is our number one priority.”
But that didn’t stop passengers taking to social media to express their frustration at the problems.
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Loving the new London Waterloo station upgrade #waterlooupgrade pic.twitter.com/p3u6DURKuA
— Frances (@_francesw) August 28, 2017
Is there a cover up afoot?
Love it, interviewed someone from Network Rail at Waterloo who tried to assure it was biz as usual whilst standing beneath 10 delayed trains pic.twitter.com/E3hkMN2m5t
— joanna palmer (@ukjopalmer) August 29, 2017
Or some serious mis-reporting?
.@TheSun it’s only 5:30 …how have you managed to get a pic of Waterloo station at 5:50 already? Don’t use old pics https://t.co/HFQoHXJ6ML pic.twitter.com/r9s3AWLlaj
— NR Press Office (@networkrailPR) August 29, 2017
Hmmm…
Here’s what Waterloo concourse looks like right now pic.twitter.com/689Bdu0jcE
— NR Press Office (@networkrailPR) August 29, 2017
And back to reality
Let’s be honest, did anyone REALLY believe the works at Waterloo would be finished on time?
— George Bateman (@thegbateman) August 29, 2017
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