The National Rail Enquiries website has stopped working as commuters attempt to discover services that are running amid the biggest trains dispute for years. Passengers attempting to use the service to find out what trains are running during the rail strike are being shown a message stating: “500 Internal Server Error”.
Chiltern Railways, which runs services in and out of London Marylebone, has also apologised because its website has also now crashed. And in further travel headaches for passengers, signal failures between London Euston and Rugby, and London Paddington and Heathrow on Monday night, added to the chaos in the run-up to the strike.
A usually busy London Euston Station was almost deserted on Tuesday morning, with just a tiny fraction of the usual crowds of commuters present. Little more than two dozen people waited for a reduced number of trains during what would normally be rush hour. At Birmingham New Street, the station was quieter than a usual Tuesday morning rush, with travellers appearing to have either decided to work from home or found alternative ways to get to their desks.
