⚠️We're sorry for the disruption to @Se_Railway trains travelling into Charing Cross this evening. There's no easy way to say this, but we have a problem with a lubricator. It should be greasing the edges of the rails to stop wheels screeching and rubbing on sharp bends... /1
...but it has got overexcited and has let all its grease out in one go. Trains have been rolling through the grease near Waterloo East and finding it very difficult to stop. /2
This is a stock image of a lubricator and you can see how they should work. They have a different name on the railway but it would have made these Tweets impossible to get through without making it sound like a joke, when we know people are being disrupted. /3 
So, we've been diverting trains to Cannon Street and running them with extra-long gaps between services for safety reasons. We've also laid sand on the greasy rails and we hope this will help get things back to normal ASAP. Many apologies for the disruption tonight.
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