VICTORIA UPDATE: We've found a short stretch of damaged live rail, which provides power to trains, in the section highlighted. A team is getting tooled up to fix it. Meanwhile we have platforms 2-6 and 2 lines (the top 2 in the pic) open. Sorry to @Se_Railway passengers today /1 
@Se_Railway Here's what we think happened - a train came in over the highlighted section, and either a fault on the train or a fault on the track, caused its current collector shoes to be pulled out of alignment and the live rail too. /2
As the train made its way into Victoria, the shoes came off and were lodged between the live rail and the running rail. This caused a short circuit, causing a points failure and a small fire. You can see the extinguisher foam and the shoes here. /3
The damaged train is currently in platform 1, which is why that platform can't be used, and the short circuit etc is blocking platforms 7-8. Our people are on site now fixing everything up.
Thank you SO much for your patience with us this morning. /4
Thank you SO much for your patience with us this morning. /4
We know many of you are on your first days back commuting and we're sorry to start the week like this. As soon as we can get everything back to normal at Victoria, we will. Many thanks. Ends,
Post-Script - we've just got this picture in of the displaced live rail. You can see it's been knocked out of alignment and the insulator pots pulled out of the sleepers. This is being fixed now - we're so sorry for the delays today.
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