{"id":17381,"date":"2024-03-05T04:38:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T18:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=17381"},"modified":"2024-03-05T04:38:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T18:38:12","slug":"major-rail-line-blocked-after-train-hits-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=17381","title":{"rendered":"Major rail line blocked after train hits object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>South Western Railway is unable to run any services between Woking and London Waterloo after a train hit an object on the track in the early hours of Monday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Passengers have been urged to avoid attempting to travel on the route, which is usually one of the busiest in the country.<\/p>\n<p>First announced as a \u201cserious\u201d track fault by National Rail Enquires, a Network Rail spokesperson has now announced more details about the cause of the disruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt around 5.50am this morning, a South Western Railway train travelling towards London Waterloo struck an object in the Walton-on-Thames area,\u201d said the Network Rail spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo-one was injured and all passengers were safely escorted from the train; however, the lines through the area are currently blocked while we investigate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly investigations show the front wheels of the train are derailed, therefore it\u2019s likely to take us some time to get the railway reopened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really sorry for the disruption and will update customers on the repairs and timescale for reopening as we know more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Disruption is expected until the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for updates throughout the day.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Western Railway is unable to run any services between Woking and London Waterloo after a train hit an object on the track in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[153,387,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-british-railways","category-scotlands-railway","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}