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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Andy Gregory

Rail ‘mayhem’ as thousands stuck in London station queues likened to ‘last train out of Saigon’

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Travellers caught up in a “chaotic” thousands-strong crowd at a London train station have likened the “mayhem” sparked by widespread Easter rail disruption to boarding “the last train out of Saigon”.

Network Rail is using the bank holiday weekend, as “the lowest period of passenger traffic”, to carry out more than 600 engineering works across the country.

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