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Owing to a fallen tree blocking the line at Longcross both lines between Virginia Water and Ascot are blocked.

The train affected is in the process of being moved back to Virginia Water at which point we will be able to work on the damaged track in the Longcross area. As a result there is still no estimate for when a normal service will resume.

As the electrical power to the train line has to be switched off in order to do this, we cannot currently run any trains between Virginia Water and Ascot. This has also delayed other services on the Reading/Windsor lines with some services delayed by up to 60 minutes.

The line between Virginia Water and Chertsey has now reopened however services are being delayed by 60 minutes between London Waterloo and Weybridge (via Brentford).

A train shuttle service is running between Ascot and Reading in both directions, calling at all stations.

Replacement road transport is being organised to run between Virginia Water and Ascot. Buses arrived at Virginia Water at 19:20 with further buses scheduled to arrive at 20:15. Taxis are also being utilised between Virginia Water and Ascot.

Owing to a fallen tree blocking the line at Longcross both lines between Virginia Water and Reading are blocked.
The train affected is in the process of being moved back to Virginia Water at which point we will be able to work on the damaged track in the Longcross area. As a result the line between Virginia Water and Reading will be blocked for the rest of the day. Repairs can then be completed overnight.

As the electrical power to the train line has to be switched off in order to do this, we cannot currently run any trains between Virginia Water and Reading. This has also delayed other services on the Reading/Windsor lines with some services delayed by up to 30 minutes.

The line between Virginia Water and Chertsey has now reopened however services are being delayed by 30 minutes between London Waterloo and Weybridge (via Brentford).
 
Replacement road transport is being organised to run between Virginia Water and Reading. Buses arrived at Virginia Water at 19:20 with further buses scheduled to arrive at 20:15. Taxis are also being utilised between Virginia Water and Ascot.

We are sorry for the disruption this will cause.

Also an Incident at Bath Spa which blocked the Down Main. So could only use 1 Platform. 22:15 off Bath Spa - Bristol Temple Meads was the service involved I believe.

Caused quite a few people to get onto the late running 23:19 to Exeter St Davids, thinking it was the Frome train. I rescued 5 or so people from the trap of the 1970's HST ;D

An 82-year-old man was treated by paramedics for a cut head after falling under a train at Bath Spaundefined station last night.

The man had been getting off a First Great Western service from London at 11.09pm when he slipped between the train and the platform.

The accident happened after a night of chaos on the railways following a two-hour power failure affecting signalling equipment at Hayes in Middlesex, which affected all trains in and out of Paddington.

Passengers and the train manager pulled the man up from the rails after he slipped down and an ambulance was called.

Overrunning engineering works on Wednesday morning didn't help either.......ah well TGIF.

...that's interesting re: the over running engineering works - but these lineside problems seem to occur quite often in the Hayes area and always cause total chaos, is there an underlying reason for them and/or is anything being done about it, or is it just a case of fingers crossed and hope it doesn't happen again?

On this occasion, it seems FGW did all possible, pretty much as soon as, to rescue the situation.