M11 forced to close near Stansted Airport after ‘serious collision’

We tin present bring you an update connected the incidental reported earlier which saw bid lines blocked betwixt Bristol Temple Meads and Taunton.

Trains were delayed oregon cancelled wholly successful the greeting and services lone returned to mean soon aft 9am.

British Transport Police person since confirmed that the incidental was sparked by reports of a interest for welfare.

‘A antheral was located adjacent the tracks, ambulance besides attended and the antheral has been taken to a spot of information and to person aesculapian treatment,’ the unit said.

The concern conscionable keeps getting worse successful Stockport, arsenic it’s present thought the disruption caused by damaged overhead wires volition past for the remainder of the day.

As a reminder, the pursuing routes are affected:

• Avanti West Coast services betwixt London Euston and Manchester Piccadilly
• CrossCountry services betwixt Birmingham New Street / Bournemouth / Bristol Temple Meads / Reading / Southampton and Manchester Piccadilly
• East Midlands Railway services betwixt Nottingham / Norwich and Liverpool Lime Street
• Northern services to / from Manchester Piccadilly
• TransPennine Express services betwixt Cleethorpes and Liverpool Lime Street
• Transport for Wales services betwixt Cardiff Central / Carmarthen / Crewe / Swansea and Manchester Piccadilly

All routes moving betwixt Moorgate and Stevenage are being disrupted aft a freight bid broke down betwixt Alexandra Palace and Hertford North.

The disruption to Great Northern services is expected to past until astir midday.

A National Rail spokesperson said: ‘Trains volition beryllium held astatine stations, diverted via Welwyn Garden City, revised to lone implicit parts of their journeys, oregon cancelled.

‘We don’t person an nonstop estimation for a clip erstwhile this volition beryllium resolved.

‘As a result, if your bid is cancelled oregon nary longer serving your station, delight usage different section nationalist transport route, if determination is 1 successful your area.

‘You volition inactive request to permission other clip to bash this. As an approximate guide, delight let astir 30-45 minutes of other time. This volition beryllium connected your nonstop journey.’

National Highways has confirmed the northbound carriageway has reopened, with each lanes present flowing smoothly.

The carriageway was closed to let the aerial ambulance to onshore astatine the country of a superior collision.

The southbound broadside of the M11 is inactive closed.

There are presently delays of astir 60 minutes connected the northbound carriageway, with 30 infinitesimal delays southbound.

An Essex Police spokesperson said: ‘The M11 is presently closed successful some directions betwixt junctions 7 and 8 owed to a superior collision.

‘This is besides impacting gaffe roads astir Stansted Airport and the surrounding areas.

‘Emergency services are moving astatine the scene.

‘Please debar the area. We admit the inconvenience this volition cause.

‘We volition contented an update arsenic soon arsenic we practically can. Thank you for your patience and understanding.’

As we reported earlier, determination is large disruption to six antithetic obstruction operators owed to damaged overhead wires astatine Stockport.

Scroll down to spot which operators and services are affected by this.

It was antecedently hoped this incidental would person cleared up by 10am, but National Rail present expects the problems to proceed until 12.15pm.

Passengers are facing cancellations and delays of up to fractional an hour.

Trains presently aren’t stopping astatine Macclesfield and Stockport, with obstruction replacement buses successful spot betwixt the 2 stations.

There are besides nary services stopping astatine each stations betwixt Levenshulme and Handforth.

The M11 is closed southbound betwixt junction 8 for Stansted Airport and 7A for Harlow owed to an ongoing Essex constabulary led incident. 

The northbound is carriageway is being held temporarily to let the aerial ambulance to onshore astatine the scene.

National Highways said: ‘At this signifier it is not known however agelong the carriageway volition beryllium closed for. 

‘Plans are being made to wide the postulation caught wrong the closure, delight await instructions from officers connected scene.’

Here are the authoritative diversion details:

Hollow quadrate diversion symbols

• Exit astatine J8 Southbound onto the A120 westbound to Little Hadham
• Continue connected the A120 done Little Hadham and Standon to the A120/A10 roundabout
• At the roundabout instrumentality the archetypal exit onto the A10 south
• Continue connected the A10 done Colliers End, High Cross, Thundridge and Ware to the  A10/A414(Harlow) roundabout
• At the A10/A414 roundabout instrumentality the archetypal exit onto the A414 eastbound to Harlow
• Continue connected the A414 done Harlow and rejoin the M11 astatine junction 7

The awesome nonaccomplishment betwixt East Croydon and East Grinstead has present been repaired.

However National Rail warns that trains moving betwixt Uckfield and East Grinstead whitethorn inactive beryllium delayed by up to 25 minutes oregon revised portion work recovers.

The M11 has been closed successful some directions by Essex Police adjacent to the Stansted Airport junction.

It’s blocked betwixt junction 7a for Harlow and 8 for Stansted.

All exigency services are astatine the country and rolling closures are being enactment successful place.

We’ve contacted Essex Police for much details.

Gatwick Express trains had already been planned to instrumentality spot connected Saturday and Sunday, nevertheless the work has besides been suspended contiguous owed to a awesome responsibility and points failure.

More details here:

A signalling responsibility betwixt East Croydon and Oxted means trains person to tally much dilatory connected the enactment towards Uckfield and East Grinstead.

This affecting Southern services betwixt London Victoria and East Grinstead, and betwixt London Bridge and Uckfield, arsenic good arsenic Thameslink services betwixt Bedford oregon London Bridge to East Grinstead.

The disruption is expected to past until astir 10am and could spot trains delayed by up to 25 minutes.

It’s mostly southbound services being affected astatine the moment, but this volition inevitably person a knock-on effect connected northbound trains.

A National Rail spokesperson said: ‘Some late-running trains whitethorn not halt astatine each of the accustomed stations, oregon whitethorn not implicit their afloat journeys. Because of these alterations, your travel clip could beryllium extended further.

‘If determination is simply a agelong hold until the adjacent train, you whitethorn privation to see utilizing different route, if determination is 1 disposable successful your area.

‘If determination is nary alternative, delight talk to unit for advice, oregon usage the presumption Help Point, and they volition bash what we tin to assistance you.’

All exigency services including police, the aerial ambulance, and the occurrence work attended the country of the superior clang connected the A21 past night.

The roadworthy is closed successful some directions betwixt the A2100 astatine JohnsCross and the A265 astatine Hurst Green, and is apt to enactment closed passim the morning, National Highways says.

These are the authoritative diversion routes:

Northbound traffic

• Exit the A21 northbound astatine Baldslow by turning close onto the A28 Westfield Lane 
• Continue connected the A28 north-easterly towards Neweden
• Merge onto the A268 westbound towards Hawkhurst
• Continue done Hawkhurst towards Flimwell and past re-join the A21 northbound

Southbound traffic

• Exit the A21 southbound astatine Flimwell by turning near onto the A268 Hawkhurst Road
• Continue southbound easterly towards Hawkhurst and past onward to Newenden
• Merge onto the A28 and proceed southbound towards Baldslow and past re-join the A21 southbound 

The exigency services are astatine the country of an incidental which has blocked each lines betwixt the 2 stations.

Trains could beryllium cancelled, revised, oregon delayed by up to 20 minutes.

This affects the pursuing services:

• CrossCountry betwixt Penzance / Plymouth and Edinburgh
• CrossCountry betwixt Plymouth and Derby / Leeds
• CrossCountry betwixt Paignton and Bristol Temple Meads
• Great Western Railway betwixt Penzance and Bristol Temple Meads / London Paddington
• Great Western Railway betwixt Plymouth and Gloucester / Cardiff Central
• Great Western Railway betwixt Taunton and Bristol Temple Meads / Cardiff Central / London Paddington

Damage to the overhead wires astatine Stockport is disrupting each lines done the station, causing disruption to respective routes.

Trains could beryllium delayed by up to fractional an hr oregon cancelled, and the disruption is expected to past until 10am.

The pursuing routes are affected:

• Avanti West Coast services betwixt London Euston and Manchester Piccadilly
• CrossCountry services betwixt Birmingham New Street / Bournemouth / Bristol Temple Meads / Reading / Southampton and Manchester Piccadilly
• East Midlands Railway services betwixt Nottingham / Norwich and Liverpool Lime Street
• Northern services to / from Manchester Piccadilly
• TransPennine Express services betwixt Cleethorpes and Liverpool Lime Street
• Transport for Wales services betwixt Cardiff Central / Carmarthen / Crewe / Swansea and Manchester Piccadilly

Lines betwixt Peterborough and Ely were forced to adjacent aft a roadworthy mishap astatine a level crossing.

The lines person since reopened aft the conveyance was removed from the level crossing, but trains could inactive beryllium cancelled, revised, oregon delayed by up to 40 minutes.

Disruption is acceptable to past until 9.30am and affects the pursuing services:

• CrossCountry services betwixt Birmingham New Street and Stansted Airport
• East Midlands Railway services betwixt Liverpool Lime Street / Nottingham / Sheffield and Norwich
• Greater Anglia services betwixt Peterborough and Colchester / Ipswich

The Gatwick Express obstruction work has been suspended and determination is expected to beryllium disruption betwixt Brighton and London Victoria until the extremity of the day.

A points nonaccomplishment astatine Victoria and a imaginable signalling responsibility betwixt Preston Park and Hassocks are causing delays and blocking immoderate of the lines betwixt Brighton and London.

Gatwick Express services volition beryllium cancelled, portion immoderate Southern and Thameslink services whitethorn beryllium cancelled, revised, diverted oregon delayed by up to 20 minutes.

National Rail say: ‘Gatwick Express services which tally betwixt Brighton and London Victoria volition beryllium suspended – delight usage alternate Southern and Thameslink services betwixt Brighton and London, and permission astatine slightest 20 minutes of other clip to drawback an alternate train.

‘Southern services which tally to and from London Victoria whitethorn beryllium taxable to delays, amendments and a fewer cancellations – wherever trains are amended, they whitethorn beryllium diverted to and from London Bridge.’

Because of this disruption, trains via Gatwick Airport whitethorn beryllium overmuch busier than usual.

Tickets volition beryllium accepted connected the pursuing services:

• Southern services betwixt Brighton, Hove, Haywards Heath, Gatwick Airport and London Victoria
• Thameslink services betwixt Brighton, Gatwick Airport and London Bridge / London Blackfriars / Farringdon / London St Pancras International
• London Underground betwixt London Terminals

The unit shared their astir caller update astatine astir midnight: ‘We are presently responding to a superior collision astatine John’s Cross Roundabout successful Mountfield, adjacent Robertsbridge.

‘A conception of the A21 is apt to stay closed successful some directions for respective hours, affecting Friday greeting traffic, and we would counsel seeking an alternate route.

‘Thank you for your understanding. We volition supply further accusation arsenic soon arsenic we are capable to.’

A National Rail spokesperson said: ‘A responsibility with the signalling strategy successful the London Bridge country is delaying southbound trains towards East Croydon, Gatwick Airport, Three Bridges, Horsham and Brighton.

‘Services volition alternatively beryllium diverted betwixt London Blackfriars and East Croydon, truthful won’t halt astatine London Bridge oregon Norwood Junction arsenic a effect (in the absorption of East Croydon / Gatwick Airport / Brighton / Horsham).

‘Journeys volition instrumentality astatine slightest 20 minutes longer than normal, truthful delight let plentifulness of other clip and cheque earlier you travel.

‘If you are travelling to/from London Bridge, we’d counsel utilizing London Underground services to implicit your travel instead, changing astatine either London Blackfriars oregon London Victoria.’

Tickets volition beryllium accepted for nary other outgo connected the following:

• Southern and Thameslink services via immoderate tenable route, including Southern services to / from London Victoria
• London Underground services betwixt London Terminals