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@NetworkRailSE
May 19 • 4 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
❗️🔥We are sorry for the disruption to @Se_Railway passengers travelling into and out of London Bridge while @LondonFire deal with a track side fire. All lines are currently blocked. Please keep an eye on @Se_Railway for updates
👇 Here’s some photos from the fire at London Bridge, which is stopping trains from using platforms 6&7. Please keep checking with @Se_Railway for the latest advice. ImageImage
❗️🔥We are sorry for @TLRailUK passengers for the disruption at #LondonBridge. Platforms 4 & 5 have been closed while the London Fire Brigade deal with the trackside fire. Please keep checking @TLRailUK for the latest advice.
❗️🔥Although the London Fire Brigade has put the fire out, we're going to have to close more lines now to investigate the damage before deciding what repairs are needed. Our engineers will be working all night but if you're travelling in the morning check at @Se_Railway @TLRailUK

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Dec 31, 2022
1/ We are in the final days of a major project to rebuild the complex and busy Lewisham Junction, #London

This thread will look at the various stages of work over the past 8 days, and why the project is important for @Se_Railway passengers.
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Dec 7, 2022
Our friends @Se_Railway have been contacted by passengers who regularly ride on the line from #Margate to #Faversham via #Whitstable as to why their trains are running at a reduced speed in some places on the route.
They should be fixed soon but in the meantime, here's why... /1
@Se_Railway The route from Margate takes passengers from the chalky Isle of Thanet down to sea level near Birchington and then across a part of Kent that features a great deal of London Clay (a sort of yellowy gooey soil). /2
@Se_Railway The line across the marshes at Birchington (see below) is built up on an embankment built of that clay, as it was the only material the Victorian engineers had to hand when the line was constructed in 1863. /3
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Nov 30, 2022
📢Posted on behalf of our colleagues at Network Rail High Speed (who maintain the high speed railway but aren't on Twitter!):
We’re sorry for the disruption experienced by @Se_Railway passengers on High Speed services yesterday and today. /1
@Se_Railway At around 0930 on Tuesday, circuit breakers in the power supply to the railway around Ebbsfleet opened, much as they do in your house when there is a problem, and cut the electricity supply to trains. /2
Trains were brought carefully to a stand by the system, and powered down. We closed the breakers and as the trains all powered up we discovered the overhead wire, which carries electricity to trains, had broken in one location. /3
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Jun 21, 2022
We’re so sorry for the disruption to all our passengers’ journeys this week while the #RailStrike continues. Here’s our boss John and a short thread about why the impact is so great: /1
On Sussex Route, we need 138 operational staff to run trains every 24 hours. On Kent Route, that number is 125 staff, over 53 locations. We have contingency staff trained for this but they only make up 33 of those roles in Sussex and around a quarter of the jobs in Kent /2
We will not compromise of safety and those contingency staff are managers trained to the same high standards as we expect of our front-line colleagues. We have focussed them on the routes that serve the most customers and freight and that can be safely operated. /3
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Jun 20, 2022
Important information for @Se_Railway passengers in #EastKent travelling on Wednesday. Owing to electrical supply issues, train services inside the red box (see pic) will not start running until later in the day. #RailStrike /1
We’re really sorry. Service / travel info available here southeasternrailway.co.uk/travel-informa…
The area in the picture is supplied with power by a local electrical control office that we know will have some unique staffing issues on Weds, due to the #RailStrike. Safety checks on the power supply to trains – called continuity tests – will have to be done from the morning /3
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Jun 1, 2022
We’re really sorry for the ongoing disruption to @TLRailUK services north and south of London, owing to a problem with our signalling equipment between City Thameslink and Farringdon. Here’s what’s going on.../ /1
@TLRailUK A “track circuit” that tells the signalling system where trains are has been failing intermittently for some time now. It operates fine for a while and then fails, putting an associated signal (red in the picture courtesy @traksyuk ) to red and stopping trains. /2 Image
This is a detailed look at where it is – called TDZ it controls access to Smithfield sidings and a signal too. It works by passing a low electric current through the rails and when a train runs over those rails (yellow) it short circuits the current. /3 Image
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