Even more woes

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[Trowres]

Due to an operational incident earlier today at Romsey all lines are blocked.
What's Going On:
Train services running through this station may be cancelled, delayed or revised. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
What We're Doing About It:
We were informed of a train that developed a fault at Dean. Until this has been resolved, it will mean that all lines will remain blocked on this route until end of service.
Passengers are authorised to source taxis between Salisbury, Romsey and Southampton and claim the cost of this back through our customer service team.

This was additional to a track circuit failure at St Denys, flooding at Hinton Admiral and the Fratton depot mishap mentioned in another thread.

I can't see any more detail, but it appears that 2R58, the 15:58 Salisbury-Romsey-Southampton-Eastleigh-Romsey was delayed about 15 minutes at Dean, then terminated at Romsey 16:43. (i.e. missing Southampton, Eastleigh etc.).

At 17:18, a different unit departed for Salisbury. It had omitted its circuit of the Easteigh-Southampton-Romsey loop, presumably due to the track circuit failures mentioned above.

There appear to have been no further passenger trains departing Romsey for the remainder of the day, although ECS^▸ (Empty Coaching Stock) and other non-passenger trains have passed.

Does anyone have more info?

[Timmer]

At one point yesterday there were 9 different issues listed on the SWR^» (South Western Railway - about) network. What a mess.

[MVR S&T]

Due to poor railhead conditions between Bournemouth and Poole trains have to run at reduced speed on the line towards Portsmouth.
What's Going On:
Train services running through these stations may be delayed. Disruption is expected until the end of the day.
What We're Doing About It:
We have been informed that there are poor railhead conditions (poor railhead adhesion) caused by external seasonal factors (leaf fall/heavy rain etc) between Bournemouth and Poole on the line towards Poole. Trains take longer to accelerate and brake in these conditions and so will incur delays.

Which direction Portsmouth or Poole? who writes this stuff.

[Chris from Nailsea]

Which direction Portsmouth or Poole? who writes this stuff.

A momentarily unsupervised schoolchild on 'work experience'?   

[ellendune]

Which direction Portsmouth or Poole? who writes this stuff.

Come on. 

Portsmouth is East of Poole so if it is between Bournemouth and Poole and it is towards Portsmouth it is in the Bournemouth Direction. You can actually catch a reasonable routed train from Poole to Portsmouth - albeit with a change at Southampton. It is not as if they had said the Bristol direction!