Two different incidents that saw a person hit by a train are causing disruption to railway services to London Waterloo today.
South West Trains have closed a line between Wimbledon and Surbiton while emergency services attend to the incident. They are warning that evening services will be incredibly busy as a result of the disruption and the advice is to use alternative routes than Waterloo.
Queuing systems may also be put in place as the number of trains running to and from London Waterloo will be considerably reduced.
Services to and from Wokingham could be delayed but are on a different route to the one affected. However, with all services from Waterloo disrupted this afternoon there could still be issues for commuters coming home tonight, although services are now starting to get back to normal.
- Trains between London Waterloo and Hampton Court will not be running in either direction – You will need to use London Buses (Please refer to the alternative travel map at www.journeycheck.southwesttrains.co.uk)
- Trains between London Waterloo and Exeter/Salisbury will terminate and start from Basingstoke.
- Trains between London Waterloo and Basingstoke (stopping) will not run.
- Trains between London Waterloo and Guildford via Cobham will run via Epsom where crew knowledge permits.
- Trains between Waterloo and Shepperton will be diverted to run via Richmond in both directions, and will not call at stations between Teddington & Earlsfield.
- Trains between London Waterloo and Woking (stopping) will not run.
- Trains betweeen London Waterloo and Weymouth/Bournemouth will terminate and start at Basingstoke.
- Trains betweeen London Waterloo and Portsmouth Harbour will terminate and start at Guildford.
- Trains between London Waterloo and Alton will not run.
- Trains between London Waterloo and London Waterloo via Kingston will not run.
- Trains between London Waterloo and London Waterloo via Twickenham will not run.
During the delays, tickets will be accepted on the following services:
- London Buses will accept customers on reasonable routes in South West London.
- Southern will accept customers between London Victoria/Clapham and Epsom/Dorking
- Thameslink will accept customers between Elephant and Castle and Wimbledon
- London Underground will accept customers between London stations and Wimbledon/Morden.
- You can use your tickets on London Buses, London Underground, Govia Thameslink Railway and Great Western Railway via any reasonable routes to complete your journey.
South West Trains will be tweeting updates on Twitter using the hashtag #Surbiton
